Bill Siddons Bill Siddons Bill Siddons (born 1948) is an American music manager, best known for managing the Doors from 1968 to 1972. Siddons began his career as a teenage roadie with the Doors while attending Cal State Long Beach and six months later was asked to be the manager of the band in 1968. Siddons had this to say about his initial meeting with Jim Morrison: "So what was my first impression of Jim? He scared me to death." When Morrison died in Paris on July 3, 1971, Pamela Courson (Morrison's girlfriend) immediately contacted Siddons. He flew to Paris and arranged
The Doors discography and produced two singles, "Love Her Madly" and "Riders on the Storm". Like "Morrison Hotel" before it, "L.A. Woman" relied very heavily on the blues, which was a genre of music the Doors had often incorporated into their early live sets while the house band at the London Fog, a nightclub on the Sunset Strip, in Los Angeles. "L.A. Woman" was certified gold and platinum in several different countries. After the death of Morrison, the three remaining Doors members released two more studio albums before they eventually disbanded, "Other Voices" (1971), and "Full Circle" (1972). Both albums appeared on the