Hollywood Eden

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Publication Year:
2021

ISBN-13: 9781487007225

<p><strong>“<em>Hollywood Eden</em> brings the lost humanity of the record business vividly back to life … [Selvin’s] style is blunt, unpretentious and brisk; he knows how to move things along entertainingly … Songs about surfboards and convertibles had turned quaint, but in this book, their coolness is restored.” — <em>New York Times</em></strong></p>

<p><strong>From surf music to hot-rod records to the sunny pop of the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, the Byrds, and the Mama’s & the Papa’s, <em>Hollywood Eden</em> captures the fresh blossom of a young generation who came together in the epic spring of the 1960s to invent the myth of the California Paradise.</strong></p>

<p>Central to the story is a group of sun-kissed teens from the University High School class of 1959 — a class that included Jan & Dean, Nancy Sinatra, and future members of the Beach Boys — who came of age in Los Angeles at the dawn of a new golden era when anything seemed possible. These were the people who invented the idea of modern California for the rest of the world.</p>

<p>But their own private struggles belied the paradise portrayed in their music. What began as a light-hearted frolic under sunny skies ended up crashing down to earth just a few short but action-packed years later as, one by one, each met their destinies head-on. A rock ’n’ roll opera loaded with violence, deceit, intrigue, low comedy, and high drama, <em>Hollywood Eden</em> tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who bumped heads, crashed cars, and ultimately flew too close to the sun.</p>