Waiting for the sun : a rock 'n' roll history of Los Angeles /

British rock historian Barney Hoskyns (Hotel California, Across the Great Divide: The Band in America) examines the long and twisted rock 'n' roll history of Los Angeles in its glamorous and debauched glory. The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, the Doors, Little Feat, the Eagles, Steely Da...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hoskyns, Barney
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Backbeat Books, 2009.
Subjects:	Popular music > California > Los Angeles > History and criticism. Popular music. California > Los Angeles. Musikleben. Los Angeles (Calif.) Popular music / California / Los Angeles / History and criticism. Los Angeles, Calif. Geschichte 1880-1997. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Table of contents Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents:

Intro : After the goldrush, or Los Angeles without a star map
On the avenue : West Coast cool, California crazy
Boys of summer
Sunset nights, jingle-jangle mornings
Maybe the people would be the times, or Between Doheny and La Cienega
Strange daze, weird sins
Ladies and gentlemen of the canyon
Crawling down Cahuenga on a broken pair of legs, or What were once vices are now habits
The decline of the west
Rituals of the habitual
Epilogue : Slipping into darkness
Postscript : Mongrel Hollywood : Mixmaster Beck in the city of the angels
Appendix : Los Angeles in song.