The Doors have sold more than 100 million records and songs such as "Light My Fire" and "Riders On the Storm" are still "classic" rock favorites.

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First Avenue, one of the city's major cultural arteries, was hopping with rock stars, delegates, reporters and other conventioneers, despite the storm barreling toward the Gulf Coast.

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Volunteer Beth McMillan, a field geologist and professor at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, worked in Pearl River County, Mississippi, a couple of weeks after the storm.

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The rock stars are natives of New Jersey, which was one of the areas hardest hit by the storm.

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