Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saturday August 5, 1967. The hottest hit of the summer, Light My Fire, begins its second week at No.1 on the US Billboard chart. A ...

In 1967, Robby Krieger, the guitarist for L.A. band the Doors, wrote the hit single “Light My Fire” in the living room of his parents’ Pacific Palisades home. This week, nearly six decades later, the ...

Although "Light My Fire" was written by Doors guitarist Robby Krieger, it was a hit born of many hands. The song was written by Krieger over a weekend, after Jim Morrison challenged his bandmates to ...