** Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when Morrison sings the word " higher " from their # 1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked not to.

Morrison sings of lost love, death, and nostalgia for childhood in the Celtic soul that would become his signature.

Van Morrison sings " Tupelo Honey " ( the title song of a 1971 album ) over the end credits.

Morrison sings an a capella intro for the song, singing directly about Otis Redding.

It is a Roland keyboard ( VP770 ) that has a microphone attached and ' sings ' whatever Morrison speaks into the microphone-producing the sound of a choir.

* Van Morrison frequently performed the song in his live set.

" The End "' s Oedipal climax was first performed live at the Whisky A Go Go ; the band was thrown out as a result of Morrison screaming " Mother ... I want to fuck you!

Even though this album would gradually garner high praise, it was initially poorly received ; however, the next one, Moondance, established Morrison as a major artist, and throughout the 1970s he built on his reputation with a series of critically acclaimed albums and live performances.

Morrison continues to record and tour, producing albums and live performances that sell well and are generally warmly received, sometimes collaborating with other artists, such as Georgie Fame and The Chieftains.

Them performed without a routine and Morrison ad libbed, creating his songs live as he performed.

Morrison has stated that " Them lived and died on the stage at the Maritime Hotel ," believing that the band did not manage to capture the spontaneity and energy of their live performances on their records.

This period also saw a number of side projects, including the live jazz performances of 1996's How Long Has This Been Going On, from the same year Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison, and 2000's The Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast 1998, all of which found Morrison paying tribute to his early musical influences.

CBS network censors demanded that lead singer Jim Morrison change the lyrics to their hit single Light My Fire by altering the line, " Girl, we couldn't get much higher ", before the band performed the song live on September 17, 1967.

However, Morrison sang the original line, and on live television with no delay, CBS was powerless to stop it.

The band also worked with directors such as William Morrison and Jim Van Bebber on a number of music videos, the themes and style of which typically mirrored their live performances.

Widely renowned for their live performances, as of 2011, they hold the record for number of sold-out performances at Red Rocks Amphitheatre ( Morrison, Colorado ) at 38 and Philips Arena ( Atlanta, Georgia ) at 17.

Forty years after the release, Morrison performed the songs on the album live during two concerts at the Hollywood Bowl in November 2008.

" This is, in fact, completely untrue – the live tracks for the sessions were performed by Morrison on vocals and acoustic guitar in a separate vocal booth with the other musicians playing together on upright bass, lead acoustic guitar, vibes, flute, and drums.

When asked by Rolling Stone editor, David Wild why he was performing the album again live after forty years, Morrison replied: " It received no promotion, from Warner Bros .— that's why I never got to play the songs live.

In an article for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, Hill wrote: " Owing to the prominence of Mr Morrison, there had to be a ' goat ' and the undersigned being, as they thought, a friendless tramp, a Swede, and worst of all, an IWW, had no right to live anyway, and was therefore duly selected to be ' the goat '.

Bentt knocked Morrison down three times, and the fight was stopped in the first round in front of a live HBO Boxing audience.

After the live final broadcast on Friday, 28 January 2005, on Channel Four, two winning contestants, Gavin Pomfret and Stuart Morrison, formed a Little Britain tribute act called " Littler Britain.

In early 1966 the band made a short film Pretty Things On Film ; it featured live footage and a music video prototype for " Can't Stand The Pain ", which also featured their manager, Morrison.

The performance at the Brit's influenced WEA and Morrison to release Only God Can Judge Me, a 9-track EP which contained live performances, interviews, prayers, and three full-length songs including Who's The Mack!

After the Doors ' last performance with Morrison in New Orleans in 1970, the band agreed to discontinue performing live.

The building underwent a substantial renovation between 2005 and 2007 led by Allies and Morrison Architects aimed at improving the poor acoustics ( which Simon Rattle said made performers ' lose the will to live '), production access and flexibility of the auditorium and the general quality of fabric, entrance spaces and cafe and the layouts of the foyers.

Charles Beaumont, Baird Searles, Harlan Ellison, Kathi Maio and Lucius Shepard have covered film and related media with, briefly, William Morrison reviewing live theater.

A mixture of rock, ballads, and reggae-influenced numbers, these albums reflected Parker's early influences ( Motown, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison ) and contained the songs which formed the core of Parker's live shows – " Black Honey ", " Soul Shoes ", " Lady Doctor ", " Fool's Gold ", and his early signature tune " Don't Ask Me Questions ", which hit the Top 40 in the UK.

The " Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts " has 2, 000 seats in its primary performance hall, and hosts a wide variety of fine arts performances, including the Broadway in Boise series, concerts and other events.

Live performances – interspersed with Comic Relief appeal films – included acts such as Franz Ferdinand, Oasis, Take That, U2, James Morrison, and Flo Rida ( that week's Number 1 ).

Their early performances included a mix of original material and covering the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Van Morrison.

After the performances, NME's Derek Johnson commented that Morrison had " more genuine soul than any of his British contemporaries ".

Although Morrison was a proficient bassist ( exemplified by his performances on " Sunday Morning " and " Lady Godiva's Operation "), he disliked playing the instrument.

" One of the band's most iconic songs, " Do the Standing Still ," mocked indie rock fans for their reluctance to move during even the band's most frenetic performances, though Morrison himself would occasionally discourage fans from moshing.

Morrison originally wrote the song about breaking up with his girlfriend Mary Werbelow, but it evolved through months of performances at Los Angeles ' Whisky a Go Go into a nearly 12-minute opus on their self-titled album.

Morrison's first video, Van Morrison in Ireland, released in 1981, resulted from these performances and featured two songs from the album: " Wavelength " and " Checkin ' It Out ".

Live performances include appearances with Robbie Williams, Van Morrison, Peter Green, George Michael, Taj Mahal, Albert Collins, Georgie Fame, Kim Wilson, Joe Louis Walker, Tommy Castro, Brian May, and the reformed version of The Yardbirds.

Morrison, who frequently attends symphony performances and falls in love from a distance with a redheaded performer in his youth.

A spokesperson for the Oklahoma Professional Boxing Advisory Board said Morrison would probably not be permitted to fight in Oklahoma because of his Nevada suspension.

While there he made friends with Theordore Morrison, an English professor, " who knew so much about writing, probably more than I ever will.

Travis Morrison has stated that the band probably won't be getting back together, " except to drink beer ".

Rogan has written two major biographies of Van Morrison and the acknowledgement page of VM: No Surrender states: " This book has probably had the longest gestation of any I have written.

On his follow-up book to the seminal Jim Morrison biography, No One Here Gets Out Alive, Jerry Hopkins mentions that Courson might have prostituted herself after Morrison's death, probably to keep up with the costly lifestyle she was used to when Morrison was still caring for her needs, and apparently pimped by a former Doors employee, a chauffeur.