the Doors had recently scored its first No. 1 hit with “Light My Fire,” and Sullivan’s show was a choice booking. a producer from the show came by to inform the band that they needed to change the line “Girl, we couldn’t get much higher” to “Girl, we couldn’t get much better” when performing “Light My Fire,” ostensibly because the line might be construed as referring to drugs.
After a strong, but unremarkable performance of “People Are Strange,” the band launched into “Light My Fire,” and as the video shows, Jim Morrison sang the original lyric instead of making the suggested change.
After the show, producers informed the Doors that they had hoped to book the band six more times, but had decided instead to ban the group from the show in the future – to which Morrison reportedly replied, “Hey, man, we just did the Sullivan show.”
After a strong, but unremarkable performance of “People Are Strange,” the band launched into “Light My Fire,” and as the video shows, Jim Morrison sang the original lyric instead of making the suggested change.
After the show, producers informed the Doors that they had hoped to book the band six more times, but had decided instead to ban the group from the show in the future – to which Morrison reportedly replied, “Hey, man, we just did the Sullivan show.”
