Years of neglect left the Morrison Hotel in disrepair. And just as it was set for a new lease on life, a fire tore through the downtown building.

titled "Morrison Hotel," given the nod to the surname of Doors' frontman Jim Morrison. The photo, snapped by famed rock photographer Henry Diltz, was taken on the fly in December 1969. The album was ...

As the story goes, music photographer Henry Diltz and art director Gary Burden had to get creative with snapping the cover art featuring frontman Jim Morrison after a hotel receptionist prohibited ...

The former Morrison Hotel, which was famously on the cover of a 1970 album by The Doors, has been significantly damaged by a fire in downtown Los Angeles ...

The Morrison Hotel, the famous backdrop for The Doors’ 1970 album named after it, was destroyed by a huge fire Thursday while being occupied by dozens of homeless squatters. Almost 100 ...

In the resulting album art, the band’s frontman, Jim Morrison, stood beneath the Morrison Hotel sign. In 2004, around 40 tenants of the building sued the owners, claiming they were exposed to ...

The band and its frontman Jim Morrison had been told they couldn't take a photo inside the hotel, Diltz recalled in a 2020 Facebook post. While they were posing outside, Diltz noticed that the ...

A hotel clerk told the band they weren't allowed ... with legendary frontman Jim Morrison in the middle. "It was a great old wooden building with many small rooms upstairs where transients and ...

titled “Morrison Hotel,” given the nod to the surname of Doors’ frontman Jim Morrison. The photo, snapped by famed rock photographer Henry Diltz, was taken on the fly in December 1969.

A hotel clerk told the band they weren't allowed ... with legendary frontman Jim Morrison in the middle. The album was viewed as a comeback to their roots for The Doors, coming on the heels ...