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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 canyon’s golden era, the musicians who lived and
worked there scored dozens of landmark hits, from
"California Dreamin’" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" to "It’s
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 boom’s leading musical lights—including 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 few—who turned Los Angeles
into the music capital of the world and forever changed the
way popular music is recorded, marketed, and consumed.
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