Video: 'THE DOORS "People Are Strange" on The Ed Sullivan Show'

(Sunday, September 17, 1967, 8:00-9:00 p.m. EDT) — The Doors performed “People Are Strange” and “Light My Fire” on tonight’s episode of the CBS television variety show The Ed Sullivan Show live from CBS Studio No. 50 in New York City.

The Doors had been asked to change the lyric “Girl, we couldn’t get much higher” to “Girl, we couldn’t get much better”, out of the production staff’s fear concern about the word “higher” being associated with drug abuse.

Given that the word “better” did not rhyme with “You know that I would be a liar”, Morrison sang the word anyway and the band was subsequently forever banned from the show.

Video: 'The Doors - People Are Strange (Ed Sullivan Show Live 1967)'

Video: 'THE DOORS "Light My Fire" on The Ed Sullivan Show'

Video: 'Doors-Light My Fire'

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