L.A.’s sizzling sounds in pop music’s formative years
Turn Up The Radio: Rock, Pop, and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972
By Harvey Kubernik
Hardcover, 336 pages, $45 (Santa Monica Press)
Fans of classic rock will flip over this treasure trove of photos, interviews and other insider info about how the sizzling sounds of Southern California spread to the rest of America—and the rest of the world. This lovingly detailed illustrated narrative shines the spotlight on the Doors, the Beach Boys, the Byrds, the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, Sonny & Cher, The Monkees, Elvis Presley and other acts that made the L.A. scene such a hotbed for performers of the era, plus the producers, recording engineers, studio musicians, DJs and others pivotal to the popular music’s formative West Coast years.
—Neil Pond, American Profile Magazine
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