An incredibly rare mounted poster for the Jim Morrison Film Festival held in Vancouver Canada in March 1970, from the collection of longtime Doors associate and manager Danny Sugerman (1954-2005). As noted on this poster, this festival featured (using their capitalizations) “the WORLD PREMIERE of jim Morrison’s feature film HIWAY plus a documentary on the […]
A five-page contract between The Doors and Elektra Records signed by all five band members, regarding live tapes recorded at Los Angeles’s Aquarius Theater and used for their 1970 album Absolutely Live. This contract comes with the finest authentication possible—a letter of authenticity from Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman, who discovered and signed The Doors, […]
An original RIAA Certified Platinum Record Award for The Doors album 13, presented to longtime Doors associate and manager Danny Sugerman (1954-2005). 13 was the first Doors Greatest Hits album, and the only Doors compilation album issued during Jim Morrison’s lifetime. It was released on November 30, 1970 and certified platinum on June 10, 1987. […]
A 1998 UK first edition of Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek’s memoir Light My Fire: My Life With The Doors, boldly signed by Manzerek (1939-2013). Manzarek signs ‘To Will: Ray Manzarek, The Doors,” with the inscription and signature taking up a whole page. We don’t know the identity of Will, but this book was part of […]
An original vintage BPI Gold Disc Record Award for soundtrack to Oliver Stone’s 1991 film The Doors, presented to longtime Doors associate and manager Danny Sugerman (1954-2005), who was a consultant to the film. BPI Awards are issued by the British Phonographic Industry, and are the UK equivalent to American RIAA Awards. A Gold Disc […]
A copy of The Doors Box Set, hand signed on the front cover by Ray Manzarek, Robby Kreiger and John Densmore, from the collection of the late Doors manager Danny Sugerman. Danny Sugerman met and began working for The Doors at the remarkably young age of 13, first handling their fan mail and organizing their […]
An original RIAA Certified Gold Record Award for The Doors Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine, presented to longtime Doors associate and manager Danny Sugerman (1954-2005). Weird Scenes, a compilation and the first Doors album to be issued after the death of Jim Morrison, was released in 1972 and certified gold September 15, 1980. This […]
An original Australian Platinum Record Award for The Best of The Doors, presented to longtime Doors associate and manager Danny Sugerman (1954-2005), who wrote the liner notes to this album. Danny Sugerman met and began working for The Doors at the remarkably young age of 13, first handling their fan mail and organizing their clippings […]
A 10″ Elektra Studio acetate of an alternate edit of The Doors & Jim Morrison’s “The Ghost Song,” from the collection of longtime Doors associate and manager Danny Sugerman (1954-2005). This acetate has a probably unique 3:00 edit of “The Ghost Song” cut from the original master tape. There are a number of versions of […]
An original RIAA Platinum Record Award for The Doors 1969 classic album The Soft Parade, presented to longtime Doors associate and manager Danny Sugerman (1954-2005). Danny Sugerman met and began working for The Doors at the remarkably young age of 13, first handling their fan mail and organizing their clippings and scrapbook, and later writing […]
A satirical drawing of an admiral, done by future Doors singer Jim Morrison at age 13. Morrison’s father was a lifelong Navy officer who eventually rose to the rank of admiral, and this drawing possibly references that. The drawing is from the collection of longtime Doors associate and manager Danny Sugerman (1954-2005). It is one […]
A backstage pass from the VH1 Storytellers program The Doors: A Celebration, autographed on the back by Doors members Ray Manzarek, Robby Kreiger and John Densmore. This pass is from the collection of longtime Doors associate and manager Danny Sugerman (1954-2005). For the show, the surviving Doors invited a variety of singers to perform 8 […]
An ultra rare example of Jim Morrison’s self-published folio of poems The Lords: Notes On Vision, given by Morrison to longtime Doors associate and manager Danny Sugerman (1954-2005.) Morrison published The Lords in an edition of 100 in early 1969. Printed in Los Angeles at Western Lithographers, Morrison gave these out one-at-a-time to friends and […]
A beautiful mint condition and unread ‘Autographed Collector’s Edition’ of the 1983 book The Doors: An Illustrated History, beautifully signed by Ray Manzarek, Robby Kreiger and John Densmore. This example was factory sealed when we obtained it from the estate of the book’s author, longtime Doors associate and manager Danny Sugerman; we only opened it […]
An Elektra Records promotional poster advertising the 2002 Doors album Bright Midnight/Live in America, boldly signed by Doors members Robby Kreiger, John Densmore and Ray Manzarek. This signed and framed poster was formerly the property of longtime Doors associate and manager Danny Sugerman (1954-2005). Danny Sugerman met and began working for The Doors at the […]
An original vintage BPI Silver Disc Record Award for The Doors 1985 album The Best of The Doors, presented to longtime Doors associate and manager Danny Sugerman (1954-2005), who also wrote the liner notes for this album. BPI Awards are issued by the British Phonographic Industry, and are the UK equivalent to American RIAA Awards. […]