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World Hotels - 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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List Price: $15.95
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9780470127773
ISBN: 0470127775
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2007-05-07
Publisher: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
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Editorial Reviews:
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"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 "Through hundreds of interviews conducted over the last dozen years, Hoskyns methodically chips away at the era's artifice and ego-driven mythologizing, revealing a creative landscape that was less stardust and golden than it was green with greed and white with cocaine residue."
—Erik Himmelsbach, Los Angeles Times Book Review This book is a remarkable look at one of the most dramatic, creative, and revolutionary settings in American popular culture: the Los Angeles popular music scene from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Drawing on extraordinarily candid firsthand interviews Barney Hoskyns has conducted over more than three decades, Hotel California takes you on an intimate tour—from the Sunset Strip to Laurel Canyon—of the creative and personal lives of the legendary songwriters, superstars, and producers who made the music that everyone listened to. You'll read things you've never read before about such fascinating, complex people as Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey, Mama Cass Elliot, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, David Geffen, and many others. Packed with riveting anecdotes and sharp musical insights, Hotel California captures the amazing results of brilliant creative collaboration and the dark side of fame, wealth, and unbridled ambition. It is a story of rise and fall like none other, and you won't be able to put it down.
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Summary: Hotel California, great book
Comment: This is a really interesting book. It covers the early years of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the Eagles, etc. I got 2 copies, one for myself and another for my friend who is interested in rock in the early days. You can easily see the inspiration of many of the groups hit songs, as well as early days when most were getting started and how introductions were made. When you hear various artists met just jamming in other people's homes, it's true.
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Summary: Detail-intensive
Comment: If you want lots of details including names, dates and places, this is the book for you. Most people will pick up a lot of facts they didn't know before reading this book. However, I found it to be almost difficult to get through, simply because it is a collection of facts, events, etc. rather than a story. Hoskyns presents so much information that it's almost hard to read. Great source of info, though, for anyone who is interested in the development of this genre at that time. And it brings to the surface how important David Geffen's role was.
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Summary: hotel california
Comment: poorly written and altogether trashy. if all your interested in is knowing who Joni Mitchell slept with, there are cheaper and faster ways of finding this out. author has the annoying habit of stringing along multiple adjectives to describe the qualities of his subject--it's like he has a checklist of modifiers and intensifiers and has to make his way thru the entire list. save your money!!
by the way, laurel canyon (the book) covers much the same cultutral territory and historical period in a much more satisfying way.
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Summary: Entertaining
Comment: This book is certainly entertaining and informative. You get an insight to those magical days when rock was innovative and fun. You can see how drugs and greed brought that entire experience to a halt. The author gives you tremendous insight into the many interesting characters that inhabited that time period. There are also a great many photographs which enhance the story.
If there is a fault with the book it's that the author spends far to much time talking about Joni Mitchell. It might be because I'm not a big fan of hers but I just don't find her or her music that interesting. Otherwise, this is a very enjoyable read.
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Summary: Disappointing ....
Comment: "Jack of all trades, master of none." This cliche applies to this work. In trying to cover so many musicians over so much time, the author ends up skipping over a lot of what we readers would like to know about them.
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