THAT'S JUST ABSURD. AS A FAN OF DOORS I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. WATCH WHAT Ray Manzarek SAID 5MIN BEFORE DIE HERE: http://clixtk.com/fCM/RayManZarek <br /><br />Ray Manzarek, a founding member of 1960s rock group The Doors has died at the age of 74, the group's manager Tom Vitorino has said. <br /><br />Keyboardist Manzarek died in Rosenheim, Germany, following a battle with bile duct cancer, the band said in a statement. <br /><br />Singer Jim Morrison and Manzarek formed The Doors in 1965 after a chance meeting at Los Angeles' Venice Beach, and Manzarek's keyboard work would go on to be a touchstone of hits like "Break On Through to the Other Side" and "Light My Fire." <br /><br />"I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of my friend and bandmate Ray Manzarek today," The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger said in a statement. <br /><br />"I'm just glad to have been able to have played Doors songs with him for the last decade. Ray was a huge part of my life and I will always miss him." <br /><br />Manzarek, who was born in Chicago in 1939, is survived by his wife, Dorothy, two brothers, a son, daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. <br /><br />He died surrounded by his wife and brothers in a clinic in Rosenheim, Germany. <br /><br />The Doors sold more than a hundred million album worldwide. Singer Jim Morrison died in 1971 aged 27 in Paris of a suspected heart failure.
