Waiting for the sun
Subtitle: a rock 'n' roll history of Los Angeles
By: Barney Hoskyns.
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780879309435
Subjects: Popular music -- California -- Los Angeles -- History and criticism
Description: British rock historian Barney Hoskyns (Hotel California, Across the Great Divide: The Band in America) examines the long and twisted rock 'n' roll history of Los Angeles in its glamorous and debauched glory. The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, the Doors, Little Feat, the Eagles, Steely Dan, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell, and others (from Charlie Parker right up to Black Flag, the Minutemen, Jane's Addiction, Ice Cube, and Guns N' Roses) populate the pages of this comprehensive and extensively illustrated book [Publisher description].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Intro : After the goldrush, or, Los Angeles without a star map; title: On the avenue : West Coast cool, California crazy; title: Boys of summer; title: Sunset nights, jingle-jangle mornings; title: Maybe the people would be the times, or, Between Doheny and La Cienega; title: Strange daze, weird sins; title: Ladies and gentlemen of the canyon; title: Crawling down Cahuenga on a broken pair of legs, or, What were once vices are now habits; title: The decline of the west; title: Rituals of the habitual; title: Epilogue : Slipping into darkness; title: Postscript : Mongrel Hollywood : Mixmaster Beck; title: In the city of the angels; title: Appendix : Los Angeles in song.