"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 ...
Eccentric bachelor brothers Hector and Virgil operate a bed-and-breakfast where people like them, the "gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused," can come and peruse books and enjoy a cup of tea.
One of the most uniquely idiosyncratic outfits to emerge from the sixties, the Band owed allegiance to a wide swathe of popular musical genres, from 19th century fife-and-drum bands to 1950s R&B, while their association with the quintessential sixties artist Bob Dylan was a remarkably fortuitous meeting of like minds. British music writer Barney ...
With his trademark growl, carnival madman persona, haunting music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most revered and acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today. Hoskyns delivers the first serious biography to make sense of the life and career of this beloved icon.
This is the story of Haight Ashbury in the years 1965-1970, the period "The Haight" emerged as the Mecca of the countercultural scene. The book begins with a cultural and visual history of this eight-block-wide area during the Beat period, which created the aesthetic for the psychedelic era that followed. It ends with the defining moment of the ...
Arthur Lee and the band he fronted, Love, are widely acknowledged as one of the finest and most influential groups of the late 1960s, their psychedelic-folk masterpiece, "Forever Changes", regularly appearing high in polls of the greatest albums of all time. This book provides a substantial work on the group, including interviews with Arthur Lee, ...
This is 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 ...
British rock historian Hoskyns examines the long and twisted rock & roll history of Los Angeles in its glamorous and debauched glory. The Beach Boys, The Doors, the Eagles, Joni Mitchell, and others populate the pages of this comprehensive and extensively illustrated book.
The mullet-cut is a style in which the hair is short at the front coupled with a long mane at the back. Popular in the 1980s, entering the zeitgeist and becoming the hairstyle to have, the mullet is now in decline. The authors examine all areas of the phenomenon, from mullets in pop to advertising.
Named after the third album by the Doors, WAITING FOR THE SUN explores the contradictions that were instrumental in the development of the Los Angeles music industry from its birth in the 1940s through the end of the 1990s. Hoskyns contrasts the image of L.A. as a paradise of sun, palm trees, and laid-back lifestyles (a decades-long myth ...
The music contained in "Led Zeppelin IV" is part of the soundtrack to a generation. Released in 1971, it rocks, stomps, glides, and shimmers as it covers all the bases the band had mastered: heavy blues, barroom rock and roll, mandolin-driven folk, epic Tolkien-infused mysticism, acoustic Americana, and more. Certified gold one week after its ...
A biography of Montgomery Clift. It contrasts his successful career in films to his unhappy personal life. Emotionally disturbed, sexually confused, and physically destroyed by the use of drugs and alcohol, he died at the age of 46, virtually unemployable.
Ozzy Osbourne is the undisputed heavyweight godfather of planet metal. When his band Black Sabbath emerged from working class Birmingham in the late Sixties, there were no precedents for their sludgy, barbiturated, Hammer Horror Rock. Three and a half decades on, no one has topped the awesome grind of Paranoid, Sweet Leaf', 'Iron Man','War Pigs', ...
In the American South, blacks and whites have been influencing each other's music for generations, from the hymns of the 18th century to the soul music of the 60s. Full of personal interviews, this book goes in search of the artists behind this blend of music.
Kip, a lonely provincial boy, comes to London to enlist as a hack reviewer for a pop magazine and falls in love with Mina, a torch-singing vamp. When Mina's career takes off, Kip finds himself caught up in the general excitement, yet there is a mental and spiritual price to pay.
An account of pop music's "glam rock" era in the early-1970s, characterized by visual excess and bisexuality. The book is based on interviews with exponents such as David Bowie, Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop.
"The Sound and the Fury" gathers some of the best and most entertaining rock writing of the last forty years, coming at rock and roll from several different angles and spanning four decades of Good, Bad and Ugly. Among the pieces are: Al Aronowitz documenting The Beatles' arrival in America; Glenn O'Brien dishing the dirt with Madonna; Nick Hornby ...
A new collection of pieces, covering 20 years of popular music, by one of the UK's pre-eminent rock journalists and the people who sung and played it. From Prince to Pavement, James Brown to Joni Mitchell, ZZ Top to Tom Waits, Beck to Eminem, the former US editor of MOJO burrows deep into the heart of America's greatest music. Probing interviews ...
This is a history of Los Angeles as rock 'n' roll Babylon - a damned paradise of sun and surf, drugs and disease. The author focuses his attention on the uneasy symbiotic relationship between the movie business and music, from the early record companies and studios in the 1940s and 1930s and goes on to examine the multiplicity of styles to have ...
Reviews the human voice in modern music by examining a range of voices involved in jazz, gospel, blues reggae, country and soul singing. This book looks at artists such as Frank Sinatra, Sam Cooke, Billie Holiday and James Brown. Barney Hoskyns also wrote "Say It One Time For the Brokenhearted".
Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from "Closing Time" to "Orphans", "Lowside of the Road" is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. From his perilous 'jazzbo' ...
More than a mere gloss on the legend, this is a passionate, intelligent, and sensitive ressessment of Dean's life and career. Hoskyns make Dean come alive as no other writer has ever done, revitalizing the shallow cardboard figure portrayed by the media and revealing a Dean rarely seen--compelling, talented, winsome, and, above all, human. 123 ...
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