The Elektra Records albums you should definitely own
When The Doors’ Light My Fire crashed to No.1 in 1967, it was a remarkable achievement for the seemingly idiosyncratic Elektra Records. Yet Elektra was hardly the ‘small independent folk label’ that so many histories of The Doors would have us believe. Love had breached the Top 40 the year before, and initially The Doors wanted little more than to be as big as Love. But The Doors took Elektra to another level, light years from the label founded in 1950 by 19-year-old college student Jac Holzman. From modest beginnings Elektra became one of the...
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