After the sudden death of Jim Morrison in 1971, the surviving members of The Doors found themselves felt rudderless without him.
The band forged their ideas for the 1971 album Other Voices while Morrison was living in Paris with Pamela Courson his girlfriend, hoping that he’d return to the US to finish the album. Tragically though, he never made it back.
When Jim was gone, we had kept going,” Robby Kreiger later reflected. “The three of us were practising all the time, writing new stuff. When Jim passed, we said, ‘Jeez, what’re we going to do?’ We could just give it up, or, you know, we have all these songs. Let’s go in and record and see what happens. The record company, Elektra, they were wanting us to continue. It wasn’t that hard of a decision.”
Krieger and Manzarek stepped up on vocals, but in the end, they did consider replacing the singer, and one of the names they contemplated was Paul McCartney.
In a 2014 interview with Louder Sound, Ray Manzarek confirmed there was truth to the rumour, stating: “Yes. Paul was going to play bass. That would have worked out great. Who knows what direction we would have gone off into had that actually happened.”
Paul had only just getting started "Wings" at this time. Paul had to choose between "Wings" and "The Doors". Time gave us the answer.
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