Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
"Hoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider's keen eye to the rise and fall of the California scene. . . . This is a riveting story, sensitively told." —Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone
From enduring musical achievements to drug-fueled chaos and bed-hopping antics, the L.A. pop music scene in the sixties and seventies was like no other, and journalist Barney Hoskyns re-creates all the excitement and mayhem. Hotel California brings to life the genesis of Crosby, Stills, and Nash at Joni Mitchell’s house; the Eagles’ backstage fistfights after the success of ""Hotel California""; the drama of David Geffen and the other money men who transformed the L.A. music scene; and more.
Book details
- Author
- Barney Hoskyns
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 336
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Music › Genres & Styles › Rock
- Topics
- Los Angeles music scene · rock music history · 1960s and 1970s · Laurel Canyon · California rock · music industry · Joni Mitchell
- ISBN-13
- 9780470127773 (Paperback)9780471732730 (Hardcover)
About the author
BARNEY HOSKYNS is a British music critic, journalist, and co-founder and editorial director of Rock’s Backpages, an online rock-journalism archive. His recent books include Never Enough: A Way through Addiction, Small Town Talk and Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin.
Hoskyns holds a first-class degree in English from the University of Oxford and has written for Rolling Stone, British Vogue, GQ, The Guardian, Melody Maker and the New Musical Express.
When he’s not writing, Hoskyns continues his work as editorial director of Rock’s Backpages, building one of the web’s leading archives of rock journalism. Much of his writing explores the cultural history of American music and the lives of its key figures.
Barney lives in London.
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