Don’t miss Mark Steyn’s tribute to the song Light My Fire, which also amounts to an aptly tongue-in-cheek appreciation of the madcap combo who spawned it: the Doors.

Here’s how it happened: The Doors were one of those artsy college-boy groups. Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek had met at UCLA’s film school, where Morrison had already come up with the name for his band. Technically speaking, he didn’t yet have a band but it’s always useful to keep a moniker on tap just in case you need one and Jim thought his was a winner: The Doors. It was an allusion both to Aldous Huxley - The Doors Of Perception - and William Blake - “There are things that are known and things that are unknown, in between the doors”, which is so good it could almost be by Donald Rumsfeld.

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