Full name: Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends

Author: Barney Hoskyns Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, Non Fiction, Biographies, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780471732730 9780470127773 0471732737 0470127775

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. Similar books: Across the Great Divide: The Band and America by Barney Hoskyns Otis Redding by Jonathan Gould Black Metal by Dayal Patterson Britpop! by John Harris How Music Works by David Byrne This is Uncool by Garry Mulholland Where Did Our Love Go? by Nelson George Unknown Pleasures by Peter Hook The Wrecking Crew by Kent Hartman Bring the Noise by Simon Reynolds The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein Saucerful of Secrets by Nicholas Schaffner Small Town Talk by Barney Hoskyns The Great Pianists by Harold C. Schonberg Lowside of the Road by Barney Hoskyns Do Not Sell At Any Price by Amanda Petrusich On The Road With The Ramones by Monte A. Melnick Let it Blurt by Jim DeRogatis Comfortably Numb by Mark Blake The Beatles by Bob Spitz