Hoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider's keen eye to the
rise and fall of the California scene. . . . This is a riveting story,
sensitively told.
--Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone
From enduring musical achievements to drug-fueled chaos and bed-hopping
antics, the L.A. pop music scene in the sixties and seventies was like
no other, and journalist Barney Hoskyns re-creates all the excitement
and mayhem. Hotel California brings to life the genesis of Crosby,
Stills, and Nash at Joni Mitchell's house; the Eagles' backstage
fistfights after the success of ""Hotel California""; the drama of David
Geffen and the other money men who transformed the L.A. music scene; and
more.