As keyboard player with The Doors, Ray Manzarek helped create the iconic
psychedelic rockers' groundbreaking, hypnotic sounds which were part of the
landscape through the 1960s, and later went on to release a string of
experimental jazz-rock solo records.
Born in Chicago, Manzarek took up the piano at the age of seven, played in bands
at university and briefly served in the army before moving to California to
study cinematography at UCLA where he met fellow student Jim Morrison. After
graduation the pair formed The Doors in 1965 and with Morrison's dreamy poetry
and natural ...