The song took on a life independent of The Doors, with covers by Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Will Young and many others

Jarvis Cocker’s lyrics were as biting as Dylan’s ‘How does it feel?’ for a generation that put authenticity above prestige

Countless artists have covered the hit, from Elvis Presley and The Beatles to Mick Jagger and Prince

The artist’s most popular song on Spotify has been covered by everyone from Philip Glass to the X Factor finalists

The song leans on the melody and mood of Santana’s 1999 hit Maria Maria

The song has been covered not just by other rock bands, but by singers of all genres

Originally called ‘pretentious’ and ‘self-indulgent’, the song has recently undergone a critical reassessment

Franklin turned Otis Redding’s call for wifely submission into a song for women tired of being disrespected by men

Every label rejected the song, but a teenage music studio receptionist heard its potential

Sacked from Hawkwind, Lemmy re-recorded the song with Motörhead — and it sounds ‘like a jet engine has been installed in your head’

The song is an outlier among the more sing-songy, Paul McCartney-penned tracks on 1967’s Magical Mystery Tour

David Lynch used the song in two key moments in the 2017 revival of Twin Peaks

Miles Davis’s version was one of the first successful jazz covers of a new-wave pop song

Some songs are so distinctive they spend their afterlives being celebrated in peculiar ways

Covers by women have tended to emphasise the fear and tenderness at the heart of the song

It has been covered more than 20 times, but few mainstream musicians today would be afforded the freedom to release an original track like this

The story behind the Swedish group’s most sexually liberated song

The ripples of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s song still reverberate around rock concerts and football stadiums

From Sinatra to Gloria Gaynor, many artists have recognised the song’s brilliance

It started out in as an obscure album track and became a classic rebel yell of rock — then punk

How a song almost entirely in Korean by a business school drop-out in his mid-thirties ‘broke’ YouTube

Covered by many, the song is a touchstone for bands trying to show sensitivity and maturity

It was sung in the trenches in 1914, when carols were exchanged across no-man’s land during the Christmas truce

Covered by everyone from Elvis to Beyoncé, the song sounds the way infatuation feels: erotic, fixated, obsessive

The song struck a chord with the young Beyoncé Knowles