British rock historian Barney Hoskyns (Hotel California, Across the Great Divide: The Band in America) examines the long
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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