People are strange, when you're a stranger.
But actually, 'people are strange' was off the the "Strange Days" album...
The Hard Rock Cafe pics were a year or two later. They did the Morrison Hotel album shoot then some pics from Hard Rock later in the day. Story quoted from doorsexaminer.com ....
The photo shoot for ‘Morrison Hotel’ may be one of the most famous in rock history. No one had any idea what to do for the album cover until Ray and Dorothy Manzarek were driving around Los Angeles and found the Morrison Hotel at 1246 S. Hope Street, which was a transient hotel for men. With photographer Henry Diltz they went down to the hotel to shoot some pictures but were denied access by the desk clerk. As they were trying to figure out what to do next, Diltz noticed the clerk go into an elevator. Diltz told the group to go inside, sit in the window, where they hit their marks automatically and Diltz snapped off a roll of pictures from the outside. After which Morrison suggested they get a couple of drinks. After a bit of a drive they found the Hard Rock Café and shot some pictures there as well. A note, the Hard Rock Café also reentered rock ‘n’ roll history when it was used in the
Michael Jackson video ‘Beat It’.
‘Morrison Hotel’ quickly shot up the charts, attaining gold record status on February 23, 1970.
Album Cover:
Inside Hard Rock Cafe after the hotel photo shoot...
Don't know why but this stuff fascinates me...
(Rossage, correct, typeo, MJ Beat It was 1983. you can recognize the inside of the Hard Rock Cafe in the pic above if you take a look at Michael Jackson Youtube video of Beat It)
Oh my eyes!
. I walked a bit and choose another line to come down.
