Last November, Collider published their listicle of what they think the "Top 25 Best Classic Rock Songs" were. Placed at 18th place, "The End" was originally written by Doors' lead singer Jim Morrison as a breakup ballad about his ex-girlfriend Mary Werbelow. After multiple performances of the song at West Hollywood's Whisky A Go Go, the track evolved into an 11-minute 41-second song that cemented its legacy as one of classic rock's most daring and timeless anthems.
"The End" was released on Jan 4. 1967, as the closing track of their self-titled debut album.
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Their debut album, The Doors, helped the group become very successful, but unfortunately, Morrison died in 1971 due to heart failure while on a trip to Paris. The band continued as a trio, releasing two more albums before disbanding in 1973, but released An American Prayer five years later, which combined new music with Morrison's recitations of his poetry recorded before his death. The Doors have reunited multiple times over the past 50 years, with their most recent reunion happening in early 2026 to re-record "Riders on the Storm" for the Playing for Change "Songs Around The World" project, celebrating the band's 60th anniversary. As of April 2026, the only surviving Doors members are Krieger and Densmore.
American rock group The Doors pose for an Electra Records publicity still in 1969.Electra Records/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
"The whole deal was that when we recorded that song, Jim was on a huge dose of acid, and he had an Oedipus complex. He was really dealing with that at the time," Kreiger said. "Shortly before we recorded it, he came up with that [line] about [explicit] the mother and killing the father. That part got put into the song a couple weeks earlier when we were playing at the Whiskey. That’s just a really acidy song. Especially to me, because I know Jim was so messed up that night on acid."
"When we wrote songs, it was always an amazing experience. I’ve tried to write songs with so many people after his death, and it’s never as easy as it was with Jim. He had no ego about songwriting. He didn’t care about credit. It was just so cool to write," Krieger said. "We wrote 'The End' together, and at first it was just a little love song. When we started playing it live, it started to grow and grow. He was always making up the weirdest stuff and adding new little parts almost every night until it became the 12-minute song."
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