The Crystal Ship
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| Single by The Doors from the album The Doors |
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| A-side | Light My Fire | ||||
| Released | 1967 | ||||
| Format | Vinyl | ||||
| Recorded | August-September 1966 | ||||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock | ||||
| Length | 2:30 | ||||
| Label | Elektra Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Jim Morrison | ||||
| Producer | The Doors Paul A. Rothchild |
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"The Crystal Ship" is a song by The Doors from their 1967 debut album The Doors. It was also the B-Side of the #1 hit single, "Light My Fire." It is regarded as a goodbye love song to Jim Morrison's first love, Mary Werbelo. Like much of The Doors' work, it sets up an eerie, dark flow.
The inspiration for the "crystal ship" is an oil rig off of Sand's beach in Isla Vista, California.
John Densmore "co-writer" states: "Jim wrote The Crystal Ship for Mary Werbelo in 1964, a girlfriend with whom he was breaking up, it was in his famous notebook of poetry he had when we formed. (sic),. . . . The song was a goodbye love song."
The song was covered by Duran Duran for their 1995 covers album Thank You. It was also covered by pianist George Winston on his album Night Divides the Day - The Music of the Doors.
The song also appears on The X-files Movie Soundtrack by X.
In the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas a radio DJ states that he used to be in a band called Crystal Ship. This is most likely a reference to the song. The radio DJ is actually Guns N' Roses lead singer Axl Rose, who was in a fictional band called Crystal Ship.
In the beginning of the song Bitchin' Camero by the former punk rock group the Dead Milkmen a character explains to the other that while at the beach he plans on seeing his favorite Doors cover band Crystal Shit.
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