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The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood
Faber & Faber
May 2006
On Sale: May 16, 2006
304 pages
ISBN: 0571211496
EAN: 9780571211494
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and melded folk, rock, and savvy American pop into a sound that conquered the world as thoroughly as the songs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had before them. Thirty years later, the music made in Laurel Canyon continues to pour from radios, iPods, and concert stages around the world. During the canyonβs golden era, the musicians who lived and worked there scored dozens of landmark hits, from "California Dreaminβ" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" to "Itβs Too Late," selling tens of millions of records and resetting the thermostat of pop culture. In Laurel Canyon, veteran journalist Michael Walker tells the inside story of this unprecedented gathering of some of the baby boomβs leading musical lightsβincluding Joni Mitchell; Jim Morrison; Crosby, Stills, and Nash; John Mayall; the Mamas and the Papas; Carole King; the Eagles; and Frank Zappa, to name just a fewβwho turned Los Angeles into the music capital of the world and forever changed the way popular music is recorded, marketed, and consumed.
 Media BuzzMorning Edition - September 7, 2006
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