"The Doors" and the Sixties

The sixties was a time of major political and social change in the western world. These changes were mainly driven by the youth of the time. Their parents had come from life in both the great depression of the early thirties as well as World War II, and were on a whole more conservative than their children which the younger generation mostly refuted. In the early sixties the electronic media, such as Television and radio, …

…they were in the sixties. All their albums have sold more copies after Morrison's death than while he was alive. When we in the 2000's, especially the younger generation who were born in the eighties, look back and remember the sixties, we see the Doors as one of the driving forces of the youth movement, and as one of the most significant bands of the decade, not to mention they wrote some pretty good songs.