Hollywood Eden: Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise By Joel Selvin

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Author: Joel Selvin

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“Hollywood Eden 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.” — New York TimesFrom 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, Hollywood Eden 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.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.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, Hollywood Eden tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who bumped heads, crashed cars, and ultimately flew too close to the sun.

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In the late 1950’s and early 1960”s there was a an invention and revolution bubbling up out of the life form and jealous imagined lifestyle in Southern California… as viewed by the not entirely clear seeing world outside the… sun… beach… California Girls… surfer boys… woodies… surf and skate boards… hair color… clothing… and above and beyond the music! Names that became famous in that rambunctious culture… that is still famous today. An entire life inspiring culture… both real and imagined… fueled by Surf and Car Music. Besides the names like Jan and Dean… Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys… the Mama’s and Papa’s… the Byrd’s… Barry McGuire… Johnny Rivers… Nancy Sinatra… ( Along with “The Chairman of the Board” Sinatra… and even the infamous kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. is tied into this surfing music true-life story!)This addictively educational and entertaining tome is penned by Joel Selvin whose unique combination of microscopically detailed facts and anecdotes… combined with the wonderful ability to get salient facts and accomplishments through to his readers in mere sentences… where less talented author’s would bog things down with multiple paragraphs. This makes for a book that doesn’t miss a detail no matter how “small” a background contributor “or” inhibitor might be!Besides the artists that are up on stage… the author lifts up dusty pages and memories and makes sure to highlight the behind the scenes movers and shakers such as… Phil Spector… Herb Alpert… Lou Adler… Columbia Records… and more music labels… producers… holding companies than even Doris Day and Terry Melcher could shake a stick at. The fact that so many of these teenage and early twenty something kids attended the same schools such as University (Uni) High School… or Fairfax High School… Beverly Hills High School… Hollywood High School.. made these now famous personalities flutter in virtually the same evening mist… whether knowingly or unknowingly.And most of these kids were rich… spoiled… brats. Living in mansions in Bel Air and Beverly Hills… unless you were Brian Wilson being mentally abused by his Father in the Hawthorne-Inglewood area. Some of the many surprises the reader will come across are how dedicated and involved in all angles of the music business Jan Berry was… and he continued to be even while attending medical school at UCLA. The reader will be shocked out how duplicitous in almost every angle the music entertainment business is. Even if you already think it’s down and dirty you will be amazed. People stealing songs from each other… people steeling chords… harmonies… overdubs… everything. The producers… managers… and artists… make up phony names of already existing groups… have the original group (under the new fake group’s name) record a new hit… and then send a phony group (not the original group) out on the road to tour. Many times not even singing just lip synching!Another beautifully utilized “cherry-on-top” enticement continually employed by Selvin is mentioning small stuck in time hit songs such as “A THOUSAND STARS” by Kathy Young. That’s still a song that comes to mind when dreaming about an innocent young teenager dancing slow with a pretty girl he has watched from afar. The literary inclusion of songs and artists like this… in exactly the time period detailed… is just icing on this wonderfully crafted cake.This is just a wonderfully told… uniquely fact detailed… story that integrates all moving parts like a fine-tuned symphonic orchestra!

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