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• Waiting for the Sun, released in July 1968 via Elektra, is The Doors third studio album and their only LP to top the U.S. charts. Recorded between late 1967 and early 1968, the sessions were shaped by internal pressures: the band had exhausted much of their backlog and attempted a more improvisatory approach. The long-planned epic Celebration of the Lizard was largely abandoned in favor of more structured songs, but parts of it survive in Not to Touch the Earth. The lineupJim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmoreexpands sonic variety here, mixing psychedelia, folk, flamenco inflections (in Spanish Caravan), political lyricism (The Unknown Soldier), and pop ambition (Hello, I Love You).

  Though not unanimously celebrated at its release, Waiting for the Sun has grown in stature as a complex and somewh