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Laurel Canyon

The Inside Story of Life in L.A.'s Legendary Rock and Roll Neighborhood

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Laurel Canyon

By: Michael Walker
Narrated by: Lloyd James
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 Laurel Canyon was the neighborhood perched above the clubs and record companies of Sunset Strip where Joni Mitchell, Jim Morrison, Graham Nash, Cass Elliot, Carole King, Don Henley, and Peter Tork, just to name a few, lived and collaborated to make an indelible mark on our music and our culture. This is the story of an important period in rock music, but also of the harsher results of the sixties, as hard drugs and easy sex began to take their toll and the gruesome Wonderland murders signaled the end of the era.©2006 Michael Walker (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc. History & Criticism Music Social Sciences Rock History

Critic Reviews

"Laurel Canyon is hilarious and true and bittersweet. Michael Walker catches the mood in the air, and gets it right....The interviews are wonderful....It's a beautifully written document of that time and place when the personalities were as big as those stony dreams that fueled some of the greatest masterpieces in rock." (Cameron Crowe)
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Any officianado of that golden period during the 60's, where it all came together, was shared amongst the amazing and prolific artists, there living in Laurel Canyon and those passing through or visiting.....you will enjoy the narration and deeper content found within, will, I feel, learn more than you already know or, become familiar with one of musics hugely important and happening times - where all things seemed possible, and a much better way forward seemed so close it could almost be touched.
Obligatory reading/listening for true lovers of music, and very, very highly recommended 👌 👍❤

Above Many In Its Class

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Amazing story of an amazing time in an amazing place! How good would that place have been...Good Times

What a life to live!

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If you love music then this fascinating book is for you. Even when you already know the origins of some of the best folk/rock groups and singer songwriters of the sixties and early seventies, to hear it all reiterated by the wonderful narrator is music to the ears...its a double whammy. Fabulous, loved it, couldnt stop listening💕

Spellbinding

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