[3] In 1985, fourteen years after Morrison's death, Ray Manzarek directed[4] and Rick Schmidlin produced a music video for the song.

[10] The song's lyrics draw inspiration from John Rechy's transgressive novel City of Night, published in 1963,[11][12] while its title is expressed as a metaphor, personifying L.A. (Los Angeles) as a woman.

[14] Doors drummer John Densmore later explained the story of the line: After we recorded the song, he wrote "Mr. Mojo Rising" on a board and said, "Look at this."

[15]A yellow sheet of lined A4 paper with the lyrics of the track, handwritten by Morrison, was auctioned in Berkshire, UK for £13,000 on August 4, 2009.

The Doors Additional musicians English singer Billy Idol recorded a version of "L.A. Woman" for his fourth studio album Charmed Life (1990).