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| Released | November 17, 1978 | |||
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| Length | 38:40 46:49 (1995 reissue) | |||
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An American Prayer is the ninth and final studio album by the American rock band the Doors. Following the death of Jim Morrison and the band's breakup, the surviving members of the Doors reconvened to set several of Morrison's spoken word recordings to music.[6] It was the only album by the Doors to be nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Spoken Word" category.[7][8]
Keyboardist Ray Manzarek perceived An American Prayer as being divided into five parts, with the first covering Morrison's childhood, the second covering his high school years, the third concerning "the young poet, stoned on a rooftop with acid dreams", the fourth covering his musical career and finally the fifth being a "final summation in a way, of the man's entire life and his philosophy."[7]
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