The Doors Recall ’60s Mexican Rock Ban

“Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger of The Doors say authorities prevented them from holding an outdoor concert in 1969, at the beginning of what many call a 20-year de facto ban on rock concerts in Mexico.

Speaking in Mexico City before a planned concert Tuesday at the National Auditorium, the musicians discussed government repression against young people and their music in the years following the Oct. 2, 1968, massacre of student protesters by government troops in the capital’s Tlatelolco square.

“The powers that be said, `No way are we going to let 60,000 hippies in the Plaza de Toros,’” the bullring where The Doors were scheduled to perform in 1969, Manzarek said. “We were very unhappy about not being able to play for the students.”"

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