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Robert Alan "Robby" Krieger (born January 8, 1946) is an American rock guitarist and songwriter. He was the guitarist in The Doors, and wrote some of the band's best known songs, including "Light My Fire," "Love Me Two Times," "Touch Me," and "Love Her Madly."
He is listed as number 91 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
Robby Krieger was born in Los Angeles, California to a Jewish family. His first exposure to music was mostly classical, as his father was a big fan of marching music, until he heard Peter and the Wolf, which was the first music that really caught him. When he was seven, Krieger accidentally broke his record player, but the radio began to reach his ears playing the likes of Fats Domino, Elvis Presley, and the Platters. At 10, he tried the trumpet, but found it was not for him. He began playing the blues on his parents' piano with much more success than the trumpet. While Krieger was attending a private school, there was study time at night that allowed him to teach himself to play the guitar. He began by learning flamenco, borrowing a friend's guitar. When Krieger was 18, he got his own flamenco guitar and took lessons for a few months. He bounced around genres, including flamenco, folk, blues, and jazz. After high school, Krieger attended the University of California, Santa Barbara.
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, producer and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor. Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol. Dissatisfied with that status, Depp turned to film for more challenging roles; he played the title character of Edward Scissorhands (1990) and later found box office success in films such as Sleepy Hollow (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Rango (2011) and the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2003–present). He has collaborated with director and friend Tim Burton in eight films, most recently with Dark Shadows (2012).
Depp has gained acclaim for his portrayals of people such as Ed Wood, in Ed Wood, Joseph D. Pistone in Donnie Brasco, Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, George Jung in Blow, and the bank robber John Dillinger in Michael Mann's Public Enemies. Films featuring Depp have grossed over $3.1 billion at the United States box office and over $7.6 billion worldwide. He has been nominated for top awards many times, winning the Best Actor Awards from the Golden Globes for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and from the Screen Actors Guild for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He also has garnered a sex symbol status in American cinema, being twice named as the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine in 2003 and 2009. He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records as the highest paid actor, with $75 million.
John Densmore & Robby Krieger LIVE AT LACMA
Robby Krieger Interview - The Sweetwater Minute, Vol. 238
Robby Krieger, The Doors, Spanish Caravan, Paramount Theater, April 7 2015
Robby Krieger 2013-09-01 Orlando Plaza Live HX20V
Robby Krieger & John Densmore Break On Through at Ray Manzarek Celebration
LIGHT MY FIRE - RAY MANZAREK & ROBBY KRIEGER OF THE DOORS @ LUPO'S PROVIDENCE RI 11-02-2011
Robby Krieger extended interview
Robby Krieger - Riders on the Storm LIVE 2015 Canyon Club, Agoura Hills, CA
Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper, Robby Krieger, Tommy Henriksen & friends.
Robby Krieger - Live Solo's
Actors: Michael Madsen (actor), Andrew Lauer (actor), Adolf Hitler (actor), Kyle MacLachlan (actor), Martin Luther King (actor), Val Kilmer (actor), Bret Culpepper (actor), Kevin Dillon (actor), Robert F. Kennedy (actor), Allan Graf (actor), Dennis Burkley (actor), Crispin Glover (actor), John Capodice (actor), Jack McGee (actor), Costas Mandylor (actor),
Plot: Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971, at the age of 27. The movie features a tour-de-force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals.
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