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Hotel California: The True
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- ISBN
- 9780471732730
- Book Title
- Hotel California : The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Wiley & Sons Canada, The Limited, John
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Music
- Topic
- Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Rock
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 22.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Hoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider's keen eye to the rise and fall of the California scene. . . . This is a riveting story, sensitively told. -- Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone From enduring musical achievements to drug-fueled chaos and bed-hopping antics, the L.A. pop music scene in the sixties and seventies was like no other, and journalist Barney Hoskyns re-creates all the excitement and mayhem. Hotel California brings to life the genesis of Crosby, Stills, and Nash at Joni Mitchell's house; the Eagles' backstage fistfights after the success of "Hotel California"; the drama of David Geffen and the other money men who transformed the L.A. music scene; and more.
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Wiley & Sons Canada, The Limited, John
ISBN-10
0471732737
ISBN-13
9780471732730
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50489577
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hotel California : The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Rock
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml3534.3.H67 2006
Reviews
* In "Hotel California," Barney Hoskyns uses variations on a telling phrase - "wise (or weary) be-yond their years" - to explain why the compositions of the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriters of the early to mid-1970s have proved so enduring. Joni Mitchell; Neil Young; Jackson Browne; James Taylor; "Tapestry"-era Carole King; Crosby, Stills and Nash their songs really did seem special then and, to a surprising degree, remain so now. Influenced by the way Bob Dylan''s success in the 1960s gave young songwriters permission to say anything they wanted in their lyrics, and created an audience that eagerly awaited such daring writing, they moved toward the intimately confessional. They were uncommonly good at it, often ruefully melancholy, and they scored million-selling hits. Hoskyns looks at the time and place that spawned the singer-songwriters and their friends and lovers - the counterculture-friendly, surprisingly rustic and (at the time) affordable hillside canyons separating Los Angeles'' busy basin and oceanfront communities from its equally busy suburban Valley. Laurel Canyon, especially, but also Topanga Canyon and some others. Some of the book''s subjects were born in Southern California and some came from elsewhere; some started writing in California and some brought their established careers with them. "It was very different from the Tin Pan Alley tradition, where guys would sit down and try to write a hit song and turn out these teen-romance songs about other people," Henry Diltz, a photographer friend of the singer-songwriters, is quoted as saying. The results - Mitchell''s "Ladies of the Canyon" and "Both Sides Now," Young''s "Old Man" and "Heart of Gold," Browne''s "For a Dancer," Taylor''s "Fire and Rain," King''s "It''s Too Late" and many more - constitute a golden era of American songwriting. It''s one that might not come again in terms of quality and cultural impact. And the possibility that it was a peak seems to be dawning on their core audience of aging boomers, as well as publishers. Hoskyns'' book follows by just a few weeks another on the same subject, Michael Walker''s "Laurel Canyon." This takes its title from a song by one of the biggest acts to emerge from the milieu, the Eagles, who covered material from the singer-songwriters in addition to composing their own. They are not the best examples of the scene''s artistry but certainly of its commercial success. Hoskyns uses the term "rocklite" to describe their sound. A British journalist and critic whose previous books about American music include the superb "Strange Days, Weird Scenes, and the Sound of Los Angeles" and "Across the Great Divide: The Band and America," Hoskyns is knowledgeable about his subject. He loves delving behind the hits and the superstars to see who else was making valuable music in L.A. during the period. In doing so, he points out that the canyon''s "organic" singer-songwriters weren''t the only thing happening in L.A., nor was their approach unchallenged by others. As a result, "Hotel California" has some lively and intriguing ideas about the shortcomings of confessional songwriting - a preoccupation with self-reflection - that gives the book intellectual weight. An L.A. singer-songwriter who was a contemporary of the others - Randy Newman - has proven long-lasting precisely because he wasn''t confessional, Hoskyns observes. "Using third-person characters - or singing in character - Randy''s songs were suffused by irony, often stunningly funny." He also has praise for the satirically political work of Frank Zappa, and for the exploration of "the darker side of the California dream" pursued by Tim Buckley and Tom Waits. For that matter, Neil Young had as much of a dark side as an idealistic one, Hoskyns points out - he once recommended that his record label sign an aspiring songwriter named Charles Manson (be-fore the Tate-LaBianca murders). In their personal lives, the canyon singer-songwriters pract, * In "Hotel California," Barney Hoskyns uses variations on a telling phrase - "wise (or weary) be-yond their years" - to explain why the compositions of the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriters of the early to mid-1970s have proved so enduring. Joni Mitchell; Neil Young; Jackson Brow≠James Tayl∨ "Tapestry"-era Carole King; Crosby, Stills and Nash their songs really did seem special then and, to a surprising degree, remain so now. Influenced by the way Bob Dylan''s success in the 1960s gave young songwriters permission to say anything they wanted in their lyrics, and created an audience that eagerly awaited such daring writing, they moved toward the intimately confessional. They were uncommonly good at it, often ruefully melancholy, and they scored million-selling hits. Hoskyns looks at the time and place that spawned the singer-songwriters and their friends and lovers - the counterculture-friendly, surprisingly rustic and (at the time) affordable hillside canyons separating Los Angeles'' busy basin and oceanfront communities from its equally busy suburban Valley. Laurel Canyon, especially, but also Topanga Canyon and some others. Some of the book''s subjects were born in Southern California and some came from elsewhere; some started writing in California and some brought their established careers with them. "It was very different from the Tin Pan Alley tradition, where guys would sit down and try to write a hit song and turn out these teen-romance songs about other people," Henry Diltz, a photographer friend of the singer-songwriters, is quoted as saying. The results - Mitchell''s "Ladies of the Canyon" and "Both Sides Now," Young''s "Old Man" and "Heart of Gold," Browne''s "For a Dancer," Taylor''s "Fire and Rain," King''s "It''s Too Late" and many more - constitute a golden era of American songwriting. It''s one that might not come again in terms of quality and cultural impact. And the possibility that it was a peak seems to be dawning on their core audience of aging boomers, as well as publishers. Hoskyns'' book follows by just a few weeks another on the same subject, Michael Walker''s "Laurel Canyon." This takes its title from a song by one of the biggest acts to emerge from the milieu, the Eagles, who covered material from the singer-songwriters in addition to composing their own. They are not the best examples of the scene''s artistry but certainly of its commercial success. Hoskyns uses the term "rocklite" to describe their sound. A British journalist and critic whose previous books about American music include the superb "Strange Days, Weird Scenes, and the Sound of Los Angeles" and "Across the Great Divide: The Band and America," Hoskyns is knowledgeable about his subject. He loves delving behind the hits and the superstars to see who else was making valuable music in L.A. during the period. In doing so, he points out that the canyon''s "organic" singer-songwriters weren''t the only thing happening in L.A., nor was their approach unchallenged by others. As a result, "Hotel California" has some lively and intriguing ideas about the shortcomings of confessional songwriting - a preoccupation with self-reflection - that gives the book intellectual weight. An L.A. singer-songwriter who was a contemporary of the others - Randy Newman - has proven long-lasting precisely because he wasn''t confessional, Hoskyns observes. "Using third-person characters - or singing in character - Randy''s songs were suffused by irony, often stunningly funny." He also has praise for the satirically political work of Frank Zappa, and for the exploration of "the darker side of the California dream" pursued by Tim Buckley and Tom Waits. For that matter, Neil Young had as much of a dark side as an idealistic one, Hoskyns points out - he once recommended that his record label sign an aspiring songwriter named Charles Manson (be-fore the Tate-LaBianca murders). In their personal lives, the canyon singer-songwriters pract
Table of Content
Preface.1 Expecting to Fly.2 Back to the Garden.3 New Kids in Town.4 Horses, Kids, and Forgotten Women.5 Escape from Sin City.6 A Case of Me.7 With a Little Help from Our Friends.8 The Machinery vs. the Popular Song.9 After the Thrill Is Gone.10 Go Your Own Way.Coda: Like a Setting Sun.Notes.Suggested Reading.Credits.Index.
Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2005-031918
Dewey Decimal
781.640979493
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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Yes
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