Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Search - Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends

Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
Hotel California The TrueLife Adventures of Crosby Stills Nash Young Mitchell Taylor Browne Ronstadt Geffen the Eagles and Their Many Friends
Author: Barney Hoskyns, Barney Hoskyns
"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 ...  more » "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.
ISBN-13: 9780470127773
ISBN-10: 0470127775
Publication Date: 5/4/2007
Pages: 336
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 3
3.7 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Wiley
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 2
Reviews: Member | Amazon | Write a Review
Read All 2 Book Reviews of "Hotel California The TrueLife Adventures of Crosby Stills Nash Young Mitchell Taylor Browne Ronstadt Geffen the Eagles and Their Many Friends"

Please Log in to Rate these Book Reviews

 reviewed Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends on
This was a nice attempt at being the definitive book about the California music scene in the 60's and 70's. Sadly the book falls very short. The author repeatedly makes mistakes in his "facts" and it seems almost amateurish, he even misspelled names of people he was writing about, which made him lose a significant amount of credibility. I expected more from Barney Hoskyns which he could not deliver. At the end of the book there are some pages of "suggested reading" obviously Hoskyns didn't read many of these works or he would have noticed the mistakes in his own writing.


Genres:


Back to the Top ↑
By using this Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms of Use. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
US Patent Number 7,877,315 | Copyright © 2004 - 2024 PaperBackSwap.com. All Rights Reserved.