“That was one thing I wanted to get right with Oliver. I went to his house and made sure he knew how that one had happened”: Robby Krieger sets the record straight on how a Doors classic was really written – and what the controversial movie got wrong

Jim Morrison and Robbie Krieger of The Doors perform during their debut at the Village Theatre, (later to become the Fillmore East) on September 9, 1967 in New York City, NY.

In Oliver Stone's 1991 movie The Doors, the band staple Light My Fire was seemingly written very, very quickly.

As Rick Beato accurately describes the scene, “You [referring to Robby Krieger character] pull out a handwritten piece of paper with lyrics on it, and you start playing A minor, F sharp minor, and you sing your melody, and then the Jim Morrison character comes out, and he's like, ‘Yeah, that's good. And they start singing along.’”