Remembering The Birch - The best night out when you couldn t afford to go anywhere else Such a good pub, I bought a house behind so that I didn’t have far to stagger
The Birch in Ashton became a must-visit venue for music lovers in the 1970s and 1980s (Image: Ron Stubley)
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Growing up in Berkeley, I was told nothing but bad things about Los Angeles. Superficial, smoggy, you know the drill. Then I got old enough to start hanging out in L.A. and quickly realized I had been lied to. This place was a million cities in one. Yet the myths I had been raised on continued to fascinate me not just the nightmares (some of them quite real: fires, mudslides, serial killers, etc.), but the sweet dreams too.
How California s culture industry manufactured the California dream yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Joel SelvinAuther and music journalist Joel Selvin Author and journalist Joel Selvin spent almost 40 years as the pop music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1972 to 2009, giving him a front row seat to one of the most vibrant eras of popular music history and one of its most enigmatic scenes. He co-wrote Sammy Hagar’s acclaimed memoir, “Red: My Uncensored Life In Rock” and collaborated with such figures as L.A. Reid, Randy Bachman, rock photographer Jim Marshall, Ed Hardy, and the author/musicians of the Rock Bottom Remainders. He’s written books on the Summer of Love in San Francisco and the deadly debacle of “Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day”
Just published is
Hollywood Eden: Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, And The Myth Of The California Paradise, arguably the most important book ever written on the birth of California rock by legendary writer
Joel Selvin. Selvin traces the early days of the L.A. rock scene, which in the late-1950 s slowly transformed from being Manhattan s lowly industry stepsister to the defining the sound of American music.
Hollywood Eden charts the course of key L.A. players
Phil Spector,
Jan Berry, Brian Wilson, and beyond and sheds new and important light on how the city, renowned for its visuals, came to capture a new generation s heart and imagination through sound.