Description
Michael Walker's Laurel Canyon presents the inside story of the once hottest rock and roll neighborhood in LA.
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.
Author: Michael Walker
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/01/2007
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.52w x 0.86d
ISBN13: 9780865479661
ISBN10: 0865479666
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles | Rock
- Music | History & Criticism | General
- Social Science | Popular Culture
About the Author
Michael Walker has written extensively about popular culture for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and other publications. He lives in Laurel Canyon.