The site in downtown Los Angeles required 17 fire companies to extinguish the fire.
The building that appears on the album cover The Doors from 1970, “Morrison Hotel”has been severely damaged by a fire.
According to the Variety portal, the fire broke out on Thursday (December 26) and the building located at the intersection of Pico Boulevard and Hope Street in downtown Los Angeles required 17 fire companies to control the fire after an hour and a half.
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The building has been used as a training center for the Los Angeles Fire Department in recent years and was slated to be converted into affordable housing. But in the late 1960s, it served as the Morrison Hotel.
The iconic image and album “Morrison Hotel” by The Doors
The photograph used for the cover was taken by rock photographer Henry Diltz in December 1969, and the album was released in February of the following year. The image of the band members sitting behind the glass window was taken during a brief moment when the lobby was empty, and the band appreciated the irony of the hotel sharing its name with the singer. Jim Morrison.
“Morrison Hotel” was The Doors’ fifth studio album. and was hailed by many at the time as a return to form for the band, returning them to an earthier, blues rock-focused sound, after the brass and string experiments they had played with in “The Soft Parade” of 1969.
Topics as beloved as “Roadhouse Blues”, “Peace Frog” and “You Make Me Real” They appear on “Morrison Hotel”, which peaked at number four on the US charts in 1970, while in the UK it peaked at number 12. It has since been declared platinum in the US, selling over a million of copies.
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