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

Name: Hotel California The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
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ISBN: 9780470127773

ISBN-10: 0470127775

ISBN-13: 9780470127773

Edition: 2006

Authors: Barney Hoskyns

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"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…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited
Publication date: 5/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.24" wide x 9.24" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Barney Hoskyns was born in England in 1959 and began writing for the New Musical Express after leaving Oxford. He has since written for The Times, the New Statesman, the Guardian, Spin, the Los Angeles Reader, Creem, Vogue and many other publications. His other books include Say it One Time for the Brokenhearted and Imp of the Perverse.



Preface



Expecting to Fly



Back to the Garden



New Kids in Town



Horses, Kids, and Forgotten Women



Escape from Sin City



A Case of Me



With a Little Help from Our Friends



The Machinery vs. the Popular Song



After the Thrill Is Gone



Go Your Own Way


Coda: Like a Setting Sun


Notes


Suggested Reading


Credits


Index