Waiting for the Sun Strange Days, Weird Scenes and the Sound of Los Angeles
- List Price: $16.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: St Martins Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/1997
Description:
"Dry sarcasm and terse, slashing commentary color this fascinating portrait of the California sound and its epic tragicomedy". -- The Los Angeles Times Book Review
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"The entire history of pop Los Angeles in all its splendour and excess: a dark drive deep into the city of night". -- Jon Savage, Author of England's Dreaming
"A comprehensive and critically astute history of the major developments and players in the Southern California music industry". -- Publishers Weekly
"A caustic, gossipy, refreshingly idiosyncratic history of the music business in Los Angeles...this is an unusually lively, provocative study". -- Kirkus
"An impressively researched and energetically written history of L. A.'s place in contemporary culture...Hoskyns writes with awesome command over his wide-ranging material". -- Time Out
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Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 384 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Size: 8vo up to 9½" tall.; Light wear to covers. Text clean and unmarked. The binding is tight and square. First Edition. Name written inside.
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