num_pages: 316
description: This book is a remarkable look at one of the most dramatic, creative, and revolutionary settings in American popular culture: the Los Angeles popular music scene from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Drawing on extraordinarily candid firsthand interviews Barney Hoskyns has conducted over more than three decades, Hotel California takes you on an intimate tour—from the Sunset Strip to Laurel Canyon—of the creative and personal lives of the legendary songwriters, superstars, and producers who made the music that everyone listened to. You'll read things you've never read before about such fascinating, complex people as Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey, Mama Cass Elliot, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, David Geffen, and many others. Packed with riveting anecdotes and sharp musical insights, Hotel California captures the amazing results of brilliant creative collaboration and the dark side of fame,wealth, and unbridled ambition. It is a story of rise and fall like none other, and you won't be able to put it down.
language: English
title: Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons, 1967-1976
titlecomplete: Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons, 1967-1976
characters: Glenn Frey, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, David Geffen, Cass Elliot, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, James Taylor
genres: Pop Culture, Adult, Nonfiction, Rock N Roll, History, Music, Research, Cultural, Music Biography, Biography
ratings_count: 1963
places: Los Angeles, California
publisher: Harper Perennial