Light My Fire#Will Young version

{{Quote box|quote=Jim had been writing all the songs and then one day we realized we didn't have enough tunes, so he said, "Hey, why don't you guys try and write songs?" I wrote "Light My Fire" that night and brought it to the next rehearsal{{nbsp}}... It's always kind of bugged me that so many people don't know I was the composer.|source=– Robby Krieger, discussing the song's writing process during an interview with Guitar World.{{cite web

|first=Alan |last=Paul |url=https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/bands/robby-krieger-the-doors-retrospective |title=The Doors' Robby Krieger Sheds Light — Album by Album |website=Guitar World |date=January 8, 2016 |access-date=March 17, 2021}} |width=25%|align=right}}

"Light My Fire" originated in early 1966 as a composition by Robby Krieger,{{cite web |url=http://www.guitarworld.com/100_greatest_guitar_solos_45_quotlight_my_firequot_robby_krieger |title=Light My Fire |work=Guitar World |access-date=March 31, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212032303/http://www.guitarworld.com/100_greatest_guitar_solos_45_quotlight_my_firequot_robby_krieger |archive-date=February 12, 2012 |df=mdy-all }} who said that he was inspired by the melody of "Hey Joe" and the lyrics of the Rolling Stones' "Play with Fire".{{cite book |last=Myers|first=Marc |author-link= Marc Myers|date=2016 |title=Anatomy of a Song |publisher=Grove Press |pages=81–85 |isbn=978-1-61185-525-8}} On taking his initial composition to the band, John Densmore suggested that it should have more of a Latin rhythm, Jim Morrison wrote the second verse and part of the chorus ("Try to set the night on fire"),{{cite web |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2162473/robby-krieger-the-doors-jim-morrison-eddie-vedder-miley-cyrus/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/ |title=We've Got A File On You: Robby Krieger |work=Stereogum |date=September 30, 2021 |access-date=August 10, 2022 |last=Leas |first=Ryan}} while Ray Manzarek added the Bach-influenced introductory organ motif; Densmore also suggested that it should open with a single snare drum hit.

File:Voxcontinental.jpg organ was played by Ray Manzarek for the song's recording]]

The band started playing the song in performances in April 1966, and extended it with a jazzy improvisation. When the Doors performed the song at live concerts, Manzarek played the song's bass line with his left hand on a Fender Rhodes Piano Bass, while performing the main keyboard lines on a Vox Continental using his right hand. When they came to record the song later in the year, producer Paul A. Rothchild brought in session musician Larry Knechtel to overdub a Fender Precision Bass guitar to double the keyboard bass line.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fLzRXcFh4aQC&pg=PA139 |page=139 |title=Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend |first=Stephen |last=Davis |publisher=Penguin |year=2005 |isbn=978-1101218273}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QWBPAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA485 |pages=484–5 |title=Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings |volume=2 |first=Steve |last=Sullivan |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0810882966}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ne73TRP1FQC&pg=PA2 |page=2 |last=Hartman |first=Kent |title=The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret |publisher=Macmillan |year=2012 |isbn=978-0312619749}} Rothchild also suggested that the recording repeat the introductory motif at the end of the track.

Although the album version was just over seven minutes long, it was widely requested for radio play, notably by Los Angeles DJ Dave Diamond, and Elektra Records owner Jac Holzman asked that a shorter version be released as a single. Despite the band's reluctance,{{cite magazine |first=Tyler |last=Golsen |date=June 3, 2021 |title=The Story Behind the Song: How the Doors created 'Light My Fire' |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-story-of-how-the-doors-created-light-my-fire/amp |magazine=Far Out |access-date=November 10, 2021}} Rothchild edited a single version, cut down to under three minutes with nearly all the instrumental break removed for airplay on AM radio.

The band appeared on various TV shows, such as American Bandstand, miming to a playback of the single. "Light My Fire" was also performed live by the Doors on The Ed Sullivan Show broadcast on September 17, 1967. The Doors were asked by producer Bob Precht, Ed Sullivan's son-in-law, to change the line "girl, we couldn't get much higher", as the sponsors were uncomfortable with the possible reference to drugs. However, the meaning of the line was confirmed to be literal, as in "high in the sky".{{cite book| last = Korpe| first = Marie| title = Shoot the Singer!: Music Censorship Today| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-Yc0xnSfS8EC| access-date = October 7, 2009| date = September 4, 2004| publisher = Zed Books| isbn = 978-1-84277-505-9| page = 178 }}{{cite book| last = Hicks| first = Michael| title = Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JviHtOrIlkkC| access-date = October 7, 2009| date = August 1, 2000| publisher = University of Illinois Press| isbn = 978-0-252-06915-4| page = 83 }} The band agreed to do so, and did a rehearsal using the amended lyrics, "girl, we couldn't get much better". However, during the live performance, lead singer Jim Morrison sang the original, unaltered lyrics. Sullivan did not shake Morrison's hand as he left the stage. The band had been negotiating a multi-episode deal with the producers; however, after violating the agreement not to perform the offending line, they were informed they would never perform on the show again. Morrison's response was "Hey man. We just did the Sullivan show."{{cite book |last1=Hogan |first1=Peter K. |editor1-last=Charlesworth |editor1-first=Chris |title=The Complete Guide To the Music of the Doors |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QDbS4d7nu_4C |access-date=October 7, 2009 |year=1994 |publisher=Music Sales Group |isbn=978-0-7119-3527-3 |page=30}}

This performance was portrayed in Oliver Stone's 1991 biopic film, but with Morrison singing "higher" more emphatically and without his subsequent retort to Sullivan and the show's producer.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TP3DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA205 |page=205 |title=The Encyclopedia of Musicians and Bands on Film |first1=Melissa U. D. |last1=Goldsmith |first2=Paige A. |last2=Willson |first3=Anthony J. |last3=Fonseca |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |date=October 7, 2016 |isbn=978-1442269873}}

Drummer John Densmore recalled that Buick offered $75,000 in October 1968 to adapt the song for use in a Buick TV commercial ("Come on, Buick, light my fire").{{cite magazine|url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020708/densmore |title=July 8, 2002 |magazine=The Nation |access-date=May 10, 2014}}{{cite web |first=Ed |last=Masley |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2014/08/13/interview-john-densmore-doors-unhinged/13976781/ |title=Interview: Drummer John Densmore on 'Doors Unhinged' |date=August 13, 2014 |website=Azcentral |access-date=March 17, 2021}} Morrison, however, was still in London after a European tour had just ended on September 20, and could not be contacted by the other band members, who agreed to the deal in his absence. As the band had agreed in 1965 to both equal splits and everyone having veto power in decisions, Morrison consequently called Buick and threatened to personally smash a Buick with a sledgehammer on television, should the commercial be aired.{{cite web|last=Harmon|first=Rod|title=From the Editor: The Doors, the Buick, and the Book|url=http://www.pressherald.com/life/go/the-doors-the-buick-and-the-book-_2013-04-18.html?pagenum=full|work=Portland Press Herald|date=April 18, 2013|access-date=April 24, 2014}}

"Light My Fire" is notated in the key of A minor.{{cite web |title=Digital Sheet Music – The Doors – Light My Fire |work=Musicnotes.com |date=July 20, 2012 |publisher=Sony/ATV Music Publishing |url=https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0072604 |access-date=November 20, 2021}} Ray Manzarek's keyboard playing descends from G to D Major, then goes to F and B-flat major; continuing onto the pitches of E-flat and A-flat major, before returning to the initial key of A Major.{{cite book |first=Melissa Ursula Dawn |last=Goldsmith |year=2019 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6W-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA93 |title=Listen to Classic Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre |page=93 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1440865787}} This alternation was based on Johann Bach's "Two and Three Part Inventions",{{cite magazine |first=Kevin |last=EG Perry |date=May 21, 2013 |title=The Doors' Ray Manzarek's 5 Greatest Keyboard Riffs |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-doors-ray-manzareks-5-greatest-keyboard-riffs-23415?amp |magazine=NME |access-date=November 20, 2021}} but author Philip Clark has suggested that it may have been inspired by Dave Brubeck's compositions.{{cite book |first=Philip |last=Clark |year=2020 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IQSxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT250 |title=Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time |page=250 |publisher=Hachette |isbn=978-0306921667}} The extended solo arrangement is performed throughout the keys of A Minor and B Minor, the same chord progression used by John Coltrane on his cover version of "My Favorite Things".{{cite web |last=Mayhew |first=Jess |title=Robby Krieger Explains the Story of 'Peace Frog' and 'Light My Fire' |date=June 17, 2016 |url=https://reverb.com/news/song-stories-the-doors-peace-frog-and-light-my-fire-with-robby-krieger |website=Reverb.com |access-date=March 16, 2021}}{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/double-take-light-my-fire-the-doors-will-young-139680.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/double-take-light-my-fire-the-doors-will-young-139680.html |archive-date=June 14, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Double Take: 'Light My Fire' - The Doors/Will Young |newspaper=The Independent |date=December 31, 2013 |access-date=April 14, 2021}} According to Manzarek, the instrumental sections were an homage to John Coltrane whom the band admired.{{cite book |last=Manzarek |first=Ray |title=Light My Fire: My Life With the Doors |title-link=Light My Fire (book) |publisher=Putnam |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-399-14399-1 |location=New York |author-link=Ray Manzarek |page=78}} Parts of the solos are polyrhythmic.{{cite book

|first=Brooke |last=Halpin |year=2013 |title=A Magical Mystery Time |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zAXYCQAAQBAJ&q=Light+My+Fire+polyrhythm&pg=PT200 |publisher=BookBaby |location=Cork |page=200 |isbn=978-1626752665}} Some observers noticed baroque pop influences in the song.{{cite news |last=O'Connor |first=Roisin |date=January 30, 2021 |title=The 35 Greatest Debut Albums of All Time |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/best-debut-albums-eminem-lady-gaga-kanye-west-b1795147.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/best-debut-albums-eminem-lady-gaga-kanye-west-b1795147.html |archive-date=June 14, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=April 23, 2021 |newspaper=The Independent}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/best-60s-albums/|title=Best 60s Albums: 20 Classics From the Decade That Changed It All|first=Luke|last=Edwards|date=17 October 2021|website=Dig!|access-date=18 February 2025|quote=...the steamy baroque-pop hit...}}

The 40th Anniversary mix of the debut album presents a stereo version of "Light My Fire" in speed-corrected form for the first time. The speed discrepancy (being about 3.5% slow) was brought to Bruce Botnick's attention by Brigham Young University professor Michael Hicks, who noted that all video and audio live performances of the Doors performing the song, the sheet music, and statements of band members show the song in a key almost a half step higher (key of A) than the stereo LP release (key of A♭/G♯). Until the 2006 remasters, only the original 45 RPM singles ("Light My Fire" and "Break On Through") were produced at the correct speed.{{Cite AV media notes |last=Botnick |author-link=Bruce Botnick|first=Bruce |type=CD reissue liner notes |title=The Doors 40th Anniversary |date=May 2006}}

File:Light My Fire - ad 1967.jpg advertisement, May 27, 1967]]

A live version was released in 1983 on their live album Alive, She Cried,{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/alive-she-cried-mw0000189717 |last=Eder|first=Bruce |title=The Doors Alive, She Cried |work=AllMusic|access-date=February 27, 2021}} the first of several live albums released in subsequent decades to include the song. "Light My Fire" achieved modest success in Australia, where it peaked at number 22 on the ARIA chart. The single originally reached number 49 in the UK in 1967, but experienced belated success in that country in 1991, when a reissue peaked at number seven. This reissue was more successful in Ireland, peaking atop the IRMA chart for two weeks in June. The reissue occurred due to revived interest in the band following Oliver Stone's film biopic The Doors.

The single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in September 1967 for exceeding one million units shipped. As of December 1971, it was the band's best-selling single with over 927,000 copies sold.{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ng8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA7 |title='Doors Sold 4,190,457 Albums': Court Report |magazine=Billboard |date=December 18, 1971 |access-date=November 30, 2015 |page=3 |issn=0006-2510 |volume=83 |number=51}}

It was also certified 2× Platinum by the RIAA in November 2024 for reaching 2,000,000 digital units. Billboard described the single as a "top discotheque offering" with an "infectious beat" that "really grooves from start to finish."{{cite magazine |magazine=Billboard |access-date=February 27, 2021 |date=May 27, 1967 |page=16 |title=Spotlight Singles |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1967/Billboard%201967-05-27.pdf}} Cash Box called the single a "potent, pounding foot-stomper with unlimited potential."{{cite magazine |title=CashBox Record Reviews |date=May 20, 1967 |page=26 |access-date=2022-01-12 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1967/CB-1967-05-20.pdf |magazine=Cash Box}}

"Light My Fire" has been widely considered as the Doors' signature song,{{cite news|first=Dave |last=Simpson|date=June 17, 2015|title=The Doors: 10 of the Best

|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/17/the-doors-10-of-the-best |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=April 27, 2021}}{{cite magazine |first=Gillian |last=G. Gaar |date=March 14, 2017 |title=The 15 Best Songs by the Doors |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-doors/the-15-best-songs-by-the-doors/ |magazine=Paste Magazine |access-date=April 28, 2021}} and a quintessential work of the psychedelic rock genre. In 2004 and 2010, the song was ranked at number 35 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time,{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/the-doors-light-my-fire-20110525 |title=The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=June 4, 2011}} then it was re-ranked at number 310 on the 2021 list.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/the-doors-light-my-fire-3-1225028/|title=Light May Fire ranked #310 on Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs List|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=24 December 2021}} It was included in RIAA's Songs of the Century list, at number 52. In 2014 NME ranked the song 199th in its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.{{cite magazine |last=Barker |first=Emily |date=31 January 2014|title=The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time |url=https://www.nme.com/photos/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-200-101-1421780 |magazine=NME |access-date=May 19, 2021}} Feliciano's cover won the 1969 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance,{{cite web |url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/grammy/popsolo.htm |title=Grammy Awards: Best Pop Vocal Performance – Male |publisher=Rock on the Net |access-date=March 16, 2021}} the same year he also won the Grammy for Best New Artist.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZvYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=7306,477181&dq |title='Now' Singers To Get Grammys |date=February 11, 1969 |access-date=December 26, 2022 |newspaper=St. Petersburg Times }}{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In 1998, the track was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame under the category Rock (single).{{cite web |url=http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame |title=Grammy Hall of Fame |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707235113/http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame |date=July 7, 2015 |location=Santa Monica, California |publisher=The Recording Academy |website=Grammy.com |archive-date=July 7, 2015 |access-date=March 2, 2021}} Artists such as Brian Wilson, Jean-Jacques Burnel, and Feliciano himself, among others, are admirers of the song.{{cite web |date=February 1, 2011 |url=https://mobile.twitter.com/BrianWilsonLive/status/32201694821482496 |title=Brian Wilson Tweets |website=Twitter |access-date=March 31, 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/jean-jacques-burnel-of-the-stranglers-on-the-songs-that-changed-his-life/U3DVHIARBZCDIPTUVQ4WF7EJZI/ |date=February 13, 2020 |title=Jean-Jacques Burnel of the Stranglers on the Songs That Changed His Life |website=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=March 31, 2023}}

The house on Alma Real Drive where Robby Krieger wrote Light My Fire was destroyed in the wildfires which devastated the Pacific Palisades in January 2025.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-11/the-doors-hit-light-my-fire-was-written-in-pacific-palisades-home-that-went-up-in-flames|title=The Doors' hit 'Light My Fire' was written in Pacific Palisades home that burned|newspaper=LA Times|accessdate=11 January 2025}}

The Doors

• John Densmore – drums
• Robby Krieger – guitars
• Ray Manzarek – Vox Continental organ, Rhodes piano bass{{cite book |last1=Lenhoff |first1=Alan |last2=Robertson |first2=David |year=2019 |title=Classic Keys: Keyboard Sounds that Launched Rock Music |publisher=University of North Texas Press |page=175 |isbn=978-1-57441-776-0}}
• Jim Morrison – vocals

Additional musician

• Larry Knechtel – bass guitar{{Cite web |url=http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/robby-krieger-talks-guitars-and-the-doors-212284/ |last=Burrluck |first=Dave |title=Robby Krieger Talks Guitars and the Doors |date=July 8, 2009

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{{Infobox song

| name = Light My Fire

| cover = Light_My_Fire_-_José_Feliciano.jpeg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = José Feliciano

| album = Feliciano!

| B-side = California Dreamin{{'-}}

| released = July 1968

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre = Folk rock, {{nowrap|latin jazz,{{cite book|last=Greenman|first=Ben|chapter=Jose Feliciano|editor-last=Knopper|editor-first=Steve|date=January 1, 1998|title=MusicHound Lounge: The Essential Album Guide|publisher=Visible Ink Press|location=Detroit|pages=167}}}} {{nowrap|latin pop{{Cite podcast|url=https://slate.com/podcasts/hit-parade/2021/12/darlene-love-brenda-lee-mariah-carey-are-artists-only-remembered-for-holiday-hits|title= Chestnut Roasters Edition|website=Hit Parade {{!}} Music History and Music Trivia|publisher=Slate|last=Molanphy|first=Chris|date= December 18, 2021|access-date= March 16, 2024}}}}

| length = 3:33

| label = RCA Victor

| writer = The Doors

| producer = Rick Jarrard

| prev_title = La Copa Rota

| prev_year = 1968

| next_title = Hi-Heel Sneakers

| next_title2 = Hitchcock Railway

| next_year = 1968

| misc = {{External music video|header=Official audio|{{YouTube|nsS6mWYtbFM|"Light My Fire" (Digitally Mastered - April 1992)}}}}

}}

The Puerto Rican vocalist and guitarist José Feliciano enjoyed significant international success when he released his version of "Light My Fire" in 1968 as a single on the RCA Victor label. Only a year after the original had been a number-one hit, his cover spent twelve weeks on the US Billboard Hot 100,[https://www.billboard.com/artist/jose-feliciano/chart-history/hsi/ José Feliciano, Billboard Hot 100 – Billboard.com.] Retrieved March 17, 2025. debuting at number 62 the week of July 27, 1968 and peaking at number 3 the weeks of August 31, September 7 and 14, 1968.[https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1968-07-27/ Billboard Hot 100, Week of July 27, 1968 – Billboard.com.] Retrieved March 17, 2025.[https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1968-08-31/ Billboard Hot 100, Week of August 31, 1968 – Billboard.com.] Retrieved July 7, 2023.[https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1968-09-14/ Billboard Hot 100, Week of September 14, 1968 – Billboard.com.] Retrieved July 7, 2023. His version became the bigger hit in Australia and also in Canada, where it reached number one.{{cite web|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.5865&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.5865.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.5865|title=Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada |website=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |date=1968-09-09 |access-date=2019-12-19}}

Feliciano's remake blended Latin influences, including a mixture of classic Spanish guitar, and soul, with American pop.{{cite book |first1=Cordelia |last1=Candelaria |first2=Peter J. |last2=García |first3=Arturo J. |last3=Aldama |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=STjcB_f7CVcC&pg=PA269 |title=Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture |year=2004 |page=269 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0313332104}} It contains "proto-Latin rock" stylings,{{cite book |first=Ed |last=Morales |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xtZnzyVdTZcC&pg=PA160 |title=Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America |publisher=St. Martin's Griffin |edition=First |date=March 1, 2003 |page=160 |isbn=978-0312262327}} and a slower tempo than the Doors original version.{{cite web |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1692141/m1/#track/3 |title=Interviews #40 - Jose Feliciano |website=Pop Chronicles |date=September 4, 1969 |access-date=October 3, 2020}} In a 1969 interview, Feliciano said that he liked the song when he first heard it, but felt that he should wait a year before releasing the song. He also said that "California Dreamin{{'-}}" was the original A-side of the single.

The single helped to spur the worldwide success of its album, Feliciano!, which was nominated for multiple Grammy Awards in 1969. Feliciano's arrangement of "Light My Fire" has influenced several subsequent versions, including that by Will Young. Songwriter Robby Krieger said in an interview about the cover: "It's really a great feeling to have written a classic. I think I owe a big debt to Jose Feliciano because he is actually the one, when he did it, everybody started doing it. He did a whole different arrangement on it."{{cite web |url=http://www.classicbands.com/RobbyKriegerInterview.html |title=Interview with Robby Krieger |website=Classic Bands |year=1994 |first=Gary |last=James |access-date=January 18, 2011}}

Feliciano revisited the song, performing a duet with Minnie Riperton on her 1979 album Minnie.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/minnie-mw0000575364/credits|title=Minnie Riperton – Minnie Credits |website=AllMusic|access-date=June 20, 2018}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Light My Fire

| cover = Amii Stewart-Light My Fire.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Amii Stewart

| album = Knock on Wood

| B-side = Bring It on Back to Me

| released = 1979

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre = Disco

| length = 8:22

| label =

• Atlantic
• Ariola America
• Hansa

| writer =

• Barry Leng
• Simon May
• The Doors

| producer = Barry Leng

| prev_title = Knock on Wood

| prev_year = 1979

| next_title = Jealousy

| next_year = 1979

}}

In 1979, Amii Stewart released a disco version of "Light My Fire", together with a medley titled "137 Disco Heaven". It was a big hit in the UK, where it reached No. 5,{{Cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/light-my-fire_slash_137-disco-heaven/|title=Light My Fire/137 Disco Heaven | Full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company|website=Officialcharts.com}} and a mild hit in West Germany, peaking at No. 26.{{Cite web|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/titel-details-14831|title=Offizielle Deutsche Charts - Offizielle Deutsche Charts|website=Offiziellecharts.de}} In the U.S., the song peaked at No. 69 on the Billboard Hot 100{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/amii-stewart/chart-history/hsi/|title=Amii Stewart Light My Fire/137 Disco Heaven Chart History|magazine=Billboard}} and No. 36 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/amii-stewart/chart-history/bsi/|title=Amii Stewart Light My Fire/137 Disco Heaven R&B Songs Chart History|magazine=Billboard}}

It reached the top 10 in the UK a second time in 1985, in remixed form together with "Knock on Wood/Ash 48". This release peaked at No. 7.{{Cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/knock-on-wood_slash_light-my-fire/|title=Knock on Wood/Light My Fire | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company|website=Officialcharts.com}}

• 1979 12"

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2. "Bring It on Back to Me"{{snd}}3:58

• 1985 UK 12"

1. "Knock on Wood" / "Ash 48"{{snd}}7:45
2. "Light My Fire" / "137 Disco Heaven"{{snd}}7:35

{{Infobox song

| name = Light My Fire

| cover = WY LMF.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Will Young

| album = From Now On

| B-side =

• "Ain't No Sunshine"
• "Beyond the Sea"

| released = {{start date|2002|5|27}}

| recorded = 2002

| studio =

| venue =

| genre =

| length =

| label =

• 19
• S
• RCA
• BMG

| writer =

• Jim Morrison
• Ray Manzarek
• John Densmore
• Robby Krieger

| producer = Absolute

| prev_title = Anything Is Possible

| prev_title2 = Evergreen

| prev_year = 2002

| next_title = The Long and Winding Road

| next_year = 2002

}}

English singer and Pop Idol series 1 winner Will Young covered "Light My Fire" in 2002.{{cite book|last=Cowell|first=Simon|title=I Don't Mean to be Rude, But...|date=April 29, 2004|publisher=Ebury Press|isbn=0091898285|page=[https://archive.org/details/idontmeantoberud0000cowe/page/180 180]|url=https://archive.org/details/idontmeantoberud0000cowe|url-access=registration|quote=will young light my fire.}} He originally performed a piano version of the song in the final 50 of Pop Idol, and again, with a backing track, in the final 10. A studio version, recorded in the style of Puerto Rican musician José Feliciano's version, was later released as his second single. The song went straight to the number one spot in the UK Singles Chart, selling 177,000 copies in its first week of release, while staying at number one for two weeks. Young also performed the song on World Idol, where he came in fifth place.{{cite web|last=Wilkes|first=Neil|title=Will insulted by 'World Idol' judges|url=http://www.digitalspy.com.au/british-tv/s98/pop-idol/news/a12793/will-insulted-by-world-idol-judges.html#~oCiNxwGVtklmmW|work=Digital Spy|access-date=April 23, 2014}}

{{Track listing

| headline = UK CD single{{cite AV media notes|title=Light My Fire|others=Will Young|year=2002|type=UK CD single liner notes|publisher=19 Recordings, S Records, RCA Records, BMG|id=74321 943002}}

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Light My Fire

| writer1 = {{hlist|Jim Morrison|Ray Manzarek|John Densmore|Robby Krieger}}

| extra1 = Absolute

| length1 = 3:35

| title2 = Ain't No Sunshine

| writer2 = Bill Withers

| extra2 = Absolute

| length2 = 2:38

| title3 = Beyond the Sea

| note3 = featuring The Big Blue

| writer3 = {{hlist|Charles Trenet|Albert Lasry}}

| extra3 = Stephen Lipson

| length3 = 2:54

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = UK cassette single and European CD single{{cite AV media notes|title=Light My Fire|others=Will Young|year=2002|type=UK cassette single sleeve|publisher=19 Recordings, S Records, RCA Records, BMG|id=74321 943004}}{{cite AV media notes|title=Light My Fire|others=Will Young|year=2002|type=European CD single liner notes|publisher=19 Recordings, S Records, RCA Records, BMG|id=82876 52541 2}}

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Light My Fire

| writer1 = {{hlist|Morrison|Manzarek|Densmore|Krieger}}

| extra1 = Absolute

| length1 = 3:35

| title2 = Ain't No Sunshine

| writer2 = Withers

| extra2 = Absolute

| length2 = 2:38

}}

Credits are lifted from the From Now On album booklet.{{cite AV media notes|title=From Now On|title-link=From Now On (Will Young album)|others=Will Young|year=2002|type=UK CD album booklet|publisher=19 Recordings, S Records, RCA Records, BMG|id=74321 969592}}

Studios

• Produced at Olympic Studios (London, England)
• Mastered at Metropolis (London, England)

Personnel

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• Jim Morrison – writing
• Ray Manzarek – writing
• John Densmore – writing
• Robby Krieger – writing
• Milton McDonald – guitars
• Karlos Edwards – percussion
• Nick Ingman – string arrangement, conducting
• Gavyn Wright – orchestra leader
• Isobel Griffiths Ltd. – orchestra contracting
• Absolute – all other instruments, production
• Steve Fitzmaurice – mixing
• Philippe Rose – mixing assistant
• Tony Cousins – mastering

{{div col end}}

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{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for "Light My Fire"}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Italy|type=single|artist=Will Young|title=Light My Fire|award=Gold|relyear=2002|certref={{cite web |url=http://www.mtv.it/news/news-detail.asp?idnews=6519 |publisher=MTV Italy |language=it |title=Light My Gold |date=June 27, 2003 |access-date=July 10, 2003}}{{dead link|date=April 2014}}}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Will Young|title=Light My Fire|award=Gold|relyear=2002|certyear=2002|id=3857-944-1|access-date=December 14, 2020}}

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{{Reflist}}

Burns, Gary. "A Typology of 'Hooks' in Popular Records."Popular Music 6.1 (1987): 1-20. Web.

• [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6353302 Ray Manzarek of The Doors], an interview on Fresh Air
• [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1081248 Light My Fire] from All Things Considered, 2000 interviews about the song with the surviving members of the Doors
• {{YouTube|qoX6AKuYWL8|The Doors - Light My Fire}}
• {{YouTube|rKn446XQ3G0|José Feliciano - Light My Fire}}

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