Tributes paid to Doors’ co-founder Manzarek

Ray Manzarek, co-founder of legendary 1960s group The Doors and creator of their signature organ sound, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 74.

Manzarek formed the group — whose hits included Light My Fire and LA Woman — with Jim Morrison in 1965 after the two met by chance in Venice Beach, California.

He died on Monday, surrounded by his wife Dorothy and brothers Rick and James in Rosenheim, Germany after “a lengthy battle with bile duct cancer”, a statement on The Doors’ Facebook page said.