WCSX Classic Cuts : People Are Strange
WCSX Classic Cuts
The Doors: “People Are Strange”
The Hook: The idea came to Jim Morrison during a sunrise spent at the crest of Laurel Canyon following a deeply depressed evening.
Album: Strange Days
Year: 1967
Writers: Jim Morrison and Robby Krieger
Stats: Peaked at number-12 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Background: “People Are Strange” was the first single off The Doors’ second album, Strange Days, and the follow-up to their breakthrough hit, “Light My Fire.” Guitarist Robby Krieger explains how the song originated.
Doors guitarist Robby Krieger on “People Are Strange.” OC:…be cool. :27
“’People Are Strange’ came about one night when Jim was on one of his real downer moods and he was talking about killing himself and stuff. This is about five in the morning. And I said, ‘Let’s go up and watch the sun from the top of Laurel Canyon.’ And we went up there and all of a sudden his mood totally changed. And he came up with the idea of that song, which is if you’re weird, then everything’s gonna be weird, but if you’re cool, then everything’s cool .”
