In 1985 I was DJing at Rubber Soul in West Melbourne. It was starting the do really well have a brilliant beginning and then a kind of lull. To get out of the lull me Ronny and Michael talked about having a "special" where we would feature an artist for the night. Play their songs maybe every third song. Put up some posters. It was up to me to come up with the image for the poster. We would have probably begun with the Beatles or The Stones but as luck would have it this Doors double album came out and we were given the chance to launch it with free Doors giveaways. So we had this poster with the image of the album all over Melbourne.
We felt it might be a big night because Jim Morrison was getting quite a bit of coverage including the cover of Rolling Stone. A very hot dead rock star. But we weren't to know how big it was really gonna be. The biggest crowd we'd ever had was 220. On the Doors night, we got 800. It was over the top with queues snaking down the block. We must have filled every available corner with punters. Both levels. We even opened the front bar for the first time. It was massive. Later we couldn't get people off the street after the club closed and the police came down. Lights flashing. It was like Sunset Strip.
We continued having once a month specials but The Doors were always the biggest. Always rammed. My copy of this album looks like it's been in a war zone.
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