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
titlecomplete: Hotel California
characters: James Taylor, Cass Elliot, Glenn Frey, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, David Geffen
genres: Cultural, Biography, Music, Nonfiction, Adult, Music Biography, Rock N Roll, Research, Pop Culture, History
ratings_count: 1962
places: Los Angeles, California
publisher: HARPER COLLINS 0 PUB