Barney Hoskyns, Author Broadway $29.95 (609p) ISBN 978-0-7679-2708-6
When a celebrity not only refuses to cooperate with a would-be biographer but persuades most of his inner circle not to grant interviews either, the writer's task is much more daunting. In trying to account for the 40-year career of eccentric...
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Barney Hoskyns, Author John Wiley & Sons $30 (324p) ISBN 978-0-471-73273-0
As musical scenes go, it would be hard to come up with a less dramatic one than that of the singer/songwriters who dominated Southern California from the mid-1960s through the mid-'70s. Nevertheless, British music journalist Hoskyns gamely tries to...
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Barney Hoskyns, Author Hyperion Books $22.95 (438p) ISBN 978-1-56282-836-3
In a saga spanning three decades, British journalist Hoskyns ( From a Whisper to a Scream: The Great Voices of Popular Music ) chronicles the story of the critically acclaimed rock group, the Band. As the 1960s dawned, a shared interest in the music
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Barney Hoskyns, Author St. Martin's Press $27.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14444-9
Hoskyns (From a Whisper to a Scream) proposes that Los Angeles is a city embodying with particular clarity both the brightest and darkest parts of American culture. Yet this aura of ""irresistible... disjuncture"" has provided a fertile ground for...
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Barney Hoskyns. Wiley, $35 (496p) ISBN 978-0-470-89432-3
This collection of interviews explores Led Zeppelin's music, partying, mysterious aura, and business and interpersonal relationships. Starting with two sessions players (Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones) joining forces with two English country rockers (Ro
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Barney Hoskyns. Da Capo, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-306-82320-6
Historian Hoskyns (Across the Great Divide) offers readers an absorbing glimpse into events that shaped Woodstock, N.Y., into a haven for musicians. He takes the title from a song by Bobby Charles, who arrived from Tennessee, and who recorded with...
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Edited by Barney Hoskyns. Picador, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-14862-9
In this thorough if sometimes repetitious collection of writing about Joni Mitchell, Hoskyns (Small Town Talk) includes album reviews, features, and interviews with the artist that span Mitchell’s career, roughly from 1968 to 2007. The collection...
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