Diltz took a photo of the bar's entrance, which became the image on the back of the "Morrison Hotel" album. The album — the band's fifth studio album — sold more than 1 million copies in the U.S.

LOS ANGELES — It was a building immortalized as the album art and title for the Doors’ fifth album. Former Morrison Hotel, made famous by a Doors album, destroyed by fire in downtown LA | Back ...

Henry Diltz, photographer of the original "Morrison Hotel" album cover, at an event at the hotel in January 2020. ... The back cover featured a nearby bar that was then called the Hard Rock Cafe.

By Ivor Levene. The building made famous by photographer Henry Diltz in 1970 (as it became the cover of The Doors album Morrison Hotel) was badly burned in a fire, possibly providing a catalyst ...

The former Morrison Hotel made famous by the Doors' album art erupted in flames in Los Angeles and required more than 100 firefighters to contain the blaze.

A fire in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday destroyed a historic building that had been immortalized on the cover of the 1970 album "Morrison Hotel," by rock band The Doors.. More than 100 ...

By the time Morrison Hotel was released, in February 1970 – and to their best reviews since their first album three years before – The Doors had announced their arrival back on to the American ...

A downtown Los Angeles building once made famous on the cover of a Doors album caught fire Thursday (Dec. 26) and needed over 100 firefighters to contain the blaze.. The site was famously captured ...

Morrison and The Doors would release one final album, “L.A. Woman,” before he was found dead in a Paris bathtub on July 3, 1971. Vehicles drive past the Morrison Hotel on Tuesday, Dec. 21 ...

Henry Diltz, photographer of the original Morrison Hotel album cover, attends the Day of the Doors pop-up event on Jan. 4, 2020, at the Original Morrison Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

The Morrison Hotel, the famous backdrop for The Doors’ 1970 album named after it, was destroyed by a huge fire Thursday while being occupied by dozens of homeless squatters.