Original keyboardist and collaborator with Jim Morrison in the musical group The Doors. He met Jim while they were both students at UCLA's film school.
Both big poetry, literature and music fans, together they came up with the idea of forming a music group to play music whose melody was written by Ray, more or less around Jim's poetry. The rest is music history...
Editors Note:
Ray Manzareck died on May 20, 2013 from cancer, he was 74 years old.