One of the final interviews with The Doors keyboard player Ray Manzarek will air as part of a new three-part BBC4 series Born To Be Wild: The Golden Age of American Rock Friday Jan. 10.
The series is taking a look into some of the biggest names in U.S. rock music from the '60s to the '90s. Included in the first installment will be interviews with Manzarek, Alice Cooper, Tom Petty and John Densmore and will be shown at 9 pm.
Manzarek died in May of 2013 at the age of 74. Before going on to make his solo music and perform with Nite City, he was a member of The Doors, which came to be in 1965. The legendary rock band stayed together even two years after the iconic frontman Jim Morrison died, and they official stopped playing in 1973.
The surviving members of the group, guitarist Robby Krieger and John Densmore, announced last July that they would reunite to pay tribute to Manzarek.
"We're going to do at least one show for Ray and have a big send-off," Krieger said to NME. "That's either the start or the end of it, I don't know."
The band mates had dealt with some legal issues, which led to a falling out. In 2002 Krieger and Manzarek began touring as The Doors Of The 21st Century, which led to a lawsuit over the use of band name, and a £25 million countersuit against Densmore for his refusal to sign off on multi-million-dollar licensing of band songs for commercials.
"That's what you do - if someone sues you, you sue them twice as hard back and hope that they drop the suit," Krieger said, according to NME. "It was a very stupid idea. We had the worst lawyers."
After learning about Manzarek's death, Krieger said, "He had a good run. For a rock'n'roller, 74's a pretty good age."
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