With a new foreword by Simon Reynolds
The classic of music reportage, now reissued as part of White Rabbit’s Deep Cuts series. Iconic rock historian Barney Hoskyns examines the long and twisted rock ‘n’ roll history of Los Angeles: a damned paradise of sun and surf, drugs and disease. Ducking and weaving between artists as diverse as The Beach Boys to Buffalo Springfield, Steely Dan to Joni Mitchell, the Doors to the Eagles – and examining the uneasy symbiotic relationship between the movie business and music-making – Waiting for the Sun traces the eclectic sound of the West Coast in all its glamorous and debauched glory.
‘Caustic, gossipy and refreshingly idiosyncratic . . . Unusually lively and provocative’ Kirkus
‘Hilarious, chilling, thoroughly scabrous . . . Fascinating’ LA Times
The classic of music reportage, now reissued as part of White Rabbit’s Deep Cuts series. Iconic rock historian Barney Hoskyns examines the long and twisted rock ‘n’ roll history of Los Angeles: a damned paradise of sun and surf, drugs and disease. Ducking and weaving between artists as diverse as The Beach Boys to Buffalo Springfield, Steely Dan to Joni Mitchell, the Doors to the Eagles – and examining the uneasy symbiotic relationship between the movie business and music-making – Waiting for the Sun traces the eclectic sound of the West Coast in all its glamorous and debauched glory.
‘Caustic, gossipy and refreshingly idiosyncratic . . . Unusually lively and provocative’ Kirkus
‘Hilarious, chilling, thoroughly scabrous . . . Fascinating’ LA Times
Reviews
A caustic, gossipy, refreshingly idiosyncratic history of the music business in Los Angeles . . . Shine[s] with early '60s tales of hack songwriters, calculating record companies, and motley unaffiliated hustlers all angling to produce a Top 40 hit . . . An unusually lively, provocative study
A hilarious, chilling, thoroughly scabrous history of postwar pop music in Los Angeles . . . Fascinating
