Janelle C. (jscrappy) reviewed on 8/16/2008 + 59 more book reviews

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If you have any interest in the music of the 1960s, you owe it to yourself to track down this book. I've never read a book that captured not only a moment in time, but a neighborhood, so vividly. Most fascinating to me was the story of Cass Elliot, a true neighborhood maven who brought together the members of Crosby, Stills and Nash, and helped set the stage for the folk-rock movement of the 1970s. The book starts in the "innocent" days from 1965-1969, before the Manson murders and Altamont changed the world of Laurel Canyon forever, and then moves into the harsher cocaine-fueled world of the 1970s. A terrific social history.

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