This was the final Doors album. Jim Morrison passed away in a Paris hotel three months after it was released. It’s an amazing album, perfectly bookending the Doors output with their first and last albums being their best, and absolutely grounded in the blues. Along with the title track ‘LA Woman’, this also had the brilliant ‘Riders On The Storm’ and ‘Love Her Madly’ both of which used to be on ‘A Date With You’ a lot. In fact, come to think about it, The Doors were on ‘A Date With You’ a fair bit!

By 1970, The Doors were the biggest band in the world. However, by now, they were in huge trouble with the police & the law, thanks to Morrison’s “antics” at their live shows, which included inciting the crowd to take their clothes off and him simulating sex. And of course, he was high as a kite. This led to them being blacklisted by radio stations and concert promoters. This album set it all right!

‘LA Woman’ is my favourite track on this album. It’s Morrison’s break-up love-letter to the city as he had plans to leave LA after this album. BTW, the words Mr. Mojo Risin’ that are the signature to the song are an anagram of Jim Morrison!

‘Love Her Madly’ was written by Krieger as an antidote to his boredom during Morrison’s trial. It’s an autobiographical song about a guy whose girl keeps running out on him. It a light fluffy song and the band loved it- their long-term producer didn’t. He was so furious about it being not Doors, he quit on the spot!

‘Riders On The Storm’ came out of jam session between the band. Manzarek came up with a riff and Morrison pulled out his poetry book. It’s a creepy tale of murderous hitchhikers but the music is mind blowing! It is the last song that Morrison ever recorded and the song ends with a storm blowing itself out…kind of appropriate given what happened a couple of months later