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  • Drummer closes doors on $20 million

    10/09/2005 3:50:59 PM PDT · by dennisw · 171 replies · 3,962+ views
    timesonline. ^ | October 08, 2005 | By Chris Ayres
    Is it simple selling or selling out? We report on a band at odds over ad revenue THE drummer of the Doors has infuriated his former bandmates by turning down nearly $20 million to use their music to sell computers and cars. John Densmore has a legal right to veto the use of the band’s music for advertising. And that is exactly what he is doing. He says that he is holding out to honour the memory of the band’s lead singer, Jim Morrison, who died in Paris from a suspected heroin overdose in 1971, aged 27. “People lost their...