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Hotel California: Singer-songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the L.A. Canyons 1967–1976
Barney Hoskyns
The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles’ success in the late Seventies.‘Hotel California’ is an epic tale of songs and sunshine, drugs and denim, genius and greed, and is the first in-depth account of the LA Canyons scene between 1967 and 1976.Hoskyn's history of this vital period in the development of today's great musical influences spans the rise of Joni Mitchell, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, The Eagles, James Taylor and Jackson Browne, and focuses on the brilliance and determination of David Geffen, the man who linked them all.Covering genius, drug-crazed disintegration, and the myriad relationships between these artists and the songs that issued from them, and drawing on extensive interviews with countless stars, singers, writers, managers, executives and scenesters, ‘Hotel California’ is a pop-culture classic.
Hotel California
Singer-songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons 1967–1976
Barney Hoskyns
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Praise (#ulink_07075946-5a9d-5de5-88cd-407d980cc142)
From the reviews of Hotel California:
‘A terrific account of the interface between idealism and squalor, art and commerce’
Guardian Guide
‘Takes you right into the backyards of Laurel Canyon…A masterful history’
Observer Music Monthly
‘A comprehensive account of the Golden State’s denim-clad, narcissistic heyday’
Mojo
‘Barney Hoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider’s keen eye to the rise and fall of the California scene in the ’60s and ’70s. It’s a riveting story, sensitively told’
ANTHONY DECURTIS, Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone
‘If you are looking for the ingredients required of a good rock ’n’ roll story, Hotel California has got the lot…a murky tale in which a sprawling cast of A-list celebrities nurture their collective inner child with a steady diet of promiscuous sex, hard drugs and soft tunes spiced with appropriately confessional lyrics…an ambitious and authoritative account
which makes overdue sense of a spectacularly decadent period of pop history’
DAVID SINCLAIR, Guardian
‘The scene is small, intimate and hopeful, and Hoskyns writes about it with a similar delicacy and verve’
The Times
‘Fantastic’
PHIL JUPITUS
‘Brilliant’
LAUREN LAVERNE
For Natalie
Table of Contents
Cover Page (#u70116027-596c-5d4d-b641-bc17c179e715)
Title Page (#u559196f4-f326-5ff9-809a-cc61fff7880f)
Copyright (#u3ed21d5a-ffa1-5eb5-89b9-10336b4748b3)
Praise (#u975fa28d-48b8-5939-a961-b73fe2a1d8b8)
Introduction (#ufa3bf70b-953e-5daa-830d-5a1ff4ecf78e)
1 Expecting to Fly: Byrdsong and the California Dream (#ue5413a84-a2a0-5e6c-bd4d-013a5ba78c22)
I: Impossible Dreamers (#ue5413a84-a2a0-5e6c-bd4d-013a5ba78c22)
II: Claims to Fame (#uf60254e8-0608-563d-bc8a-e800122328ae)
III: So You Want to Be a Rock ’n’ Roll Star (#u471455c9-bdbd-5afe-af92-4a22f8af2f29)
2 Back to the Garden: Getting It Together in the Country (#u7c9c756e-6d2e-5e4c-80df-e1bed8d55b45)
I: Little Village (#u7c9c756e-6d2e-5e4c-80df-e1bed8d55b45)
II: Back Porch Majority (#udf957b91-b7f4-51b7-810c-57c258710d65)
III: Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon (#u0561f91e-a213-58b5-a430-b5a59c138d95)
IV: Human Highway (#ua9c9226e-b2c9-5dcb-a76f-cf684a366123)
3 Out of the City: New Kids in Town (#ud9cd56e8-caf8-57ec-910d-65c0485e5fe8)
I: A New Home in the Sun (#ud9cd56e8-caf8-57ec-910d-65c0485e5fe8)
II: Outside of a Small Circle of Friends (#u9d3cf3c4-6796-5ef5-a06a-315885c09b30)
III: Both Sides, Then (#u1e1f35c2-f048-56e7-8424-6dbf71887ab2)
IV: The Elf on Roller Skates (#ud093babd-b810-5678-a9a6-29cc2fee768e)
4 Horses, Kids, Forgotten Women: Are You Ready for Country Rock? (#uc2ba3f53-2f07-50be-af47-d021b5c66ce8)
I: Hand Sown…Home Grown (#uc2ba3f53-2f07-50be-af47-d021b5c66ce8)
II: Wheatstraw Sweet (#u211a1b91-f0b1-5313-8ffe-08578e841d24)
III: Rural Free Delivery (#u17a5340e-7f3b-5910-a345-7c865037c7a2)
IV: Big Tit Sue and Bigger Tit Sue (#u03c47157-2799-5adf-b09f-57a62f1efad5)
5 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: Escape from Sin City (#u36053433-f7eb-545b-b282-709c673c8103)
I: Home Is What Makes You Happy (#u36053433-f7eb-545b-b282-709c673c8103)
II: Ain’t No One for to Give You No Name (#u4fb66229-64f1-50e9-b59c-8df6b4a2d6df)
III: Free My Gypsy Soul (#ua3814276-8841-5738-a5dc-cae6028db410)
IV: The Straight Guy (#u71bec48a-23f3-5186-9c2b-273eff6c8b72)
V: Sympathy for the Devil (#uaa25979b-4799-59ed-9608-ff1e10996b7d)
6 Let It Be Written, Let It Be Sung: A Case of Me (#u958f7505-d044-59ad-a72d-f6824a38d18f)
I: Music from Big Ego (#u958f7505-d044-59ad-a72d-f6824a38d18f)
II: Old Ladies of the Canyon (#ub0e03a2a-5939-50fa-9a9f-b263603d8913)
III: Me, Myself and I (#u06ea8252-ce78-58cc-ab28-fad89650fd36)
IV: All We Are Saying Is Give Smack a Chance (#u41133cd0-91ec-539e-ba54-340dee083ffa)
V: You Probably Think This Song Is About You (#u243af691-31ef-57c5-a511-b3ae265af68e)
7 Sittin’ In: With a Little Help from Our Friends (#u0aa799de-f48c-5968-a114-1c5edd368e1e)
I: Degrees of Separation (#u0aa799de-f48c-5968-a114-1c5edd368e1e)
II: Play It as It Lays (#u0c1691f2-edc9-5315-bdb2-5e86a171a7a7)
III: ‘WHO IS DAVID GEFFEN AND WHY IS HE SAYING THOSE TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT ME?’ (#u8ee478a0-f793-51ee-b2b8-5ca45a6bd8da)
IV: Don’t Even Try to Understand (#ub919c417-fea2-5e5e-b432-83bf505ff2d3)
V: Exile on Sunset Boulevard (#u3d94b678-7da3-5cf8-b84b-fa84f6d8378f)
8 Paradise and Lunch: The Machinery vs. the Popular Song (#u8676ab2a-fe68-5185-bf7f-ec5917292348)
I: Fool’s Gold (#u8676ab2a-fe68-5185-bf7f-ec5917292348)
II: Song Power (#u85e181ce-0587-5152-bac1-bf94455fbb1f)
III: On the Rox (#u9b0ea84d-11b6-5b92-88f8-f25f383cd3af)
IV: Postcards from Hollywood (#u6ae057cb-4ac5-585b-93ab-59a47f8d3185)
9 I Hate Them Worse than Lepers: After the Thrill Is Gone (#u54a75f86-b287-5f13-bebb-a598cf66ce57)
I: Show Biz Kids (#u54a75f86-b287-5f13-bebb-a598cf66ce57)
II: Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow (#ud4ea2117-bf1a-50ac-9ac0-04d243e9d989)
III: The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get (#uf129456f-7018-5ec4-bbed-098b6aecdb2f)
IV: Paradise in Trouble (#ub3e41664-5380-5476-b285-8c52e6832e31)
10 Go Your Own Way: Los Angeles in the Long Run (#u9505aed2-51be-5b25-bc60-bd7689e58a4f)
I: You’ll Never Eat Pussy in This Town Again (#u9505aed2-51be-5b25-bc60-bd7689e58a4f)
II: Bombs Away, Dream Babies (#u9c4a8421-ee55-5fc6-8276-5d1c9ac73d30)
III: End of the Innocents (#u416977f9-c9e7-5e68-bafd-3e90a4247a26)
