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New Doors doco coming soon

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Apr 6, 2010 Updated Apr 7, 2010

A new documentary about The Doors, called 'When You're Strange', will be released in the US this week, so should appear in Australian cinemas very soon.

The film - which is narrated by Johnny Depp and was produced by Law & Order honcho Dick Wolf, who is reportedly a huge fan of the Doors - has been described as not just 'the story of the band, but also an insight into a moment in time that will never be repeated'.

Along with a stack of previously unreleased footage of The Doors, the doco features clips from a film Jim Morrison made himself in the desert.

Click here to watch a clip from When You're Strange, showing footage of Jim Morrison and his entourage going on stage in 1968, flanked by police who are preparing for a crowd riot.

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The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore. The band took its name from Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception, the title of which was a reference to a William Blake quotation: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man...

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