Barney Hoskyns

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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Produktbeschreibung

Advance praise for "Hotel California" "A British rock critic obsessed with America, 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 sixties and seventies. This is a riveting story, sensitively told." --Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, "Rolling Stone" "Comprehensive and lively, "Hotel California" offers a front-row seat on the wild ride--fueled by drugs, sex, and lots of cash--that took Southern California singer-songwriters from hot tubs and local bars to sold-out stadiums, private jets, and the bestselling album of all time." --Alan Light, author of "The Skills to Pay the Bills: The Story of the Beastie Boys" "One of our finest pop historians reappraises a neglected and often maligned milieu. Barney Hoskyns deftly evokes not just the decadence but the sense of discovery rooted in 1960s idealism and fostered by a gaggle of record industry mavericks who, for a brief period, managed to make art and business coexist." --Simon Reynolds, author of "Rip It Up and Start Again"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 170mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780471732730
• ISBN-10: 0471732737
• Artikelnr.: 21097826

Autorenporträt

British journalist BARNEY HOSKYNS has spent much of his professional life in Los Angeles as a correspondent for England's New Musical Express and Mojo. He has written regularly on pop culture and the arts for British Vogue, has contributed to Rolling Stone, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Interview, and Spin, and has published several books on music and pop culture, including Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes, and the Sound of Los Angeles. A familiar media figure on both sides of the Atlantic, Hoskyns has appeared on VH1 and the BBC.

Rezensionen

'Hoskyns impresses with the sheer weight of testimony he has amassed and the skill with which he has woven it into a tightly coiled and elegiac narrative.' Christopher Silvester, Sunday Times

'A terrific account of the interface between idealism and squalor, art and commerce.' Guardian

'The author skillfully teases out the complex web of relationships between the artists, managers, and record executives who made up the West Coast's self-styled bohemian elite.' Ben Thompson, Independent

'if you are looking for the ingredients traditionally required of a good rock'n'roll story, then "Hotel California" has got the lot... An ambitious and authoritative account which makes overdue sense of a spectacularly decadent period of pop history' David Sinclair, Guardian