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The singer is American superstar Jim Morrison,

leader of a Californian rock and roll band called The Doors.

Through his music, Morrison comments on society as he sees it.

He speaks for a generation who have spilt their dissent onto the streets of the world.

For them, he is poet, prophet and politician.

Like many of their contemporaries,

The Doors show more clearly what they're against rather than what they're for.

This film is an attempt to illustrate their report on the state of the world.

The Doors' message is uncompromisingly loud.

Rlease do not adjust your set.

We Americans are facing exceedingly difficult questions

about our country, about order,

about lawlessness, about violence,

about progress.

lt's gone wild down at this Michigan and Balbo corner.

ln Chicago.

At the southwest corner of the Hilton Hotel.

The cop certainly had his eye on the target.

The demonstrators got into the hotel lobby.

Guys, let's move ahead. Rushing, pushing ahead.

Demonstrators, move back.

What are we coming to as a society? What are we coming to as a country

if policemen are treated the way they have been treated?

Not only in Chicago, but all over the country.

On the grounds that the confrontation has to be made

because we gotta get the action, we gotta get the violence.

There has to be someone killed.

l just wanna get them out of here so they won't do anything to us.

Just a little bit.

Get back, ma'am.

Back up!

Just stay in the car and we'll all be all right.

Back up! Back up!

Our military are a rather extraordinary group.

They are not the military-minded type of people.

They are people that really believe in the civilian concept.

Back up!

He's holding a grenade launcher.

That National Guardsman poking into the car.

Back up!

The student revolt that l led was quite different

from some of the demonstrations of the day.

We were a mature group of young people.

Back up!

Roll up the window and go!

Roll up your window.

Roll up your window, lady.

Go! Come on now! Go, go, go!

Militants, activists, revolutionaries and communists.

Go ahead! Come on, do it, Officer!

Show the world. Come on!

Now you've had equal time, shut up!

Everyone out here, l need you all to come awake for me.

l'll be there with you in a little while.

You see...

l gotta go out in this car with these people

and get...

This is a final call...

-Hi. -Your name?

Robby Krieger.

-Age? -22 years old.

-Occupation? -Guitar.

Do you know who is responsible for the breakdown of law and order in this country?

-Name? -John Densmore.

-Age? -Twenty-three.

-Occupation? -Rercussionist.

Militant activists, revolutionaries, anarchists and communists...

-Name? -Raymond Daniel Manczarek.

-Age? -Born February 1 2, 1 939.

-Occupation? -Musician, organist.

Militant activists, revolutionaries, anarchists and communists...

-Name? -Jim.

Occupation?

Okay, this time can you look to me, please? Everybody?

Well, l don't find you're a political group.

-Yeah. -They're not talking about politics.

They're talking about...

There's such a stigma about the word, but l really hate it.

Do you think you're a political group?

Or is this a tag that somebody wants to tie in

because of what's happening in the space at the moment?

We're... The four of us,

we're musicians and writers.

Well, l think in the new age, this whole new age that we're hoping for,

is the thing where there won't be any separation, where the artists,

the people who are the greatest artists,

will be the most commercially successful, too.

The music can't help but reflect things that are happening around me.

All of our music is really so symbolic

rather than direct to the point, you know?

Everybody's always talking about rock and roll and jazz

finally blending, you know.

And l don't think that can really happen,

but if it's supposed to, l think we're it.

Okay, what do you want me to answer first?

Are you interested in money, Jim?

l'm not interested in money.

Do you feel a bit trapped by the success you have out there?

No.

Let me say this about that.

Do you think this press conference is an absurd waste of time?

Yeah, that's a good point.

How was that, Ray?

That was fun.

lt's not that political for me.

But then, l'm not the lyricist.

l just want... My message from just me

is just to feel good at that moment.

And if you can, feel good from then on.

Why don't you just forget about any amplification for John?

No, it doesn't matter, Ray. John sneaks in.

-You see, John... -Yeah, he'll drain over.

He's like gravy on the meat.

l met Ray when he had a degree in economics

and he was gonna do this, you know?

And then l heard Jim's songs and they were so far out.

And l thought, "Wow, let's do this for a while."

ln all honesty, Hello l Love You was released because we felt it had the best chance

on the Top 40 charts.

lt's a fictional documentary.

l can't say too much about it,

because we're not really making it. lt's just kind of making itself.

ln the movie, it might not even be about us, for all we know.

What do you hope it will do for its audience?

l hope that it will leave them puzzled.

Ruzzled is a good word.

But puzzled and liking you, or puzzled and disliking you?

That's part of the puzzlement.

Do you want people to like you?

Well, l'd like them to listen.

l'd like them to give the music a chance.

Just to listen.

l think these days,

especially in the States, you have to be

a politician or an assassin or something to really be a superstar.

l'd like to do a song or a piece of music

that's just a pure expression ofjoy.

Rure... Like a celebration

of existence, you know?

Like the coming of spring or the sun rising.

Rure unbounded joy, you know? l don't think we've really done that yet.

Well, all of your songs are an expression ofjoy and potency.

-So far. -Yeah, maybe.

What other sorts ofjoys did you want to introduce?

The mood l get from most of it is a kind of heavy,

gloomy feeling, you know?

Like of someone not quite at home

or not quite... Not quite relaxed.

Aware of a lot of things, but not quite sure about anything.

l'd like to do one

about the feeling of being totally at home.

The war is not stalemated.

We're making steady progress, week by week, month by month.

l probably think additional forces are desired.

However, l don't consider it a bottomless pit.

The situation, l would say, is more complex than l thought was the case four years ago.

There you go. What can l say?

Rlenty more of that coming your way later on.

lf anyone of you want to relax,

groove around, we've got some time.

lf any of you want to leave,

l should tell you there's about

2,000 people outside,

dying to get in, for some of the medicine you've just heard.