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Laurel Canyon is a mountainous neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills region of the Santa Monica Mountains, within the Hollywood Hills West district of Los Angeles, California.
What is undeniably true is that from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s some of the most melodic, atmospheric, and subtly political American popular music was written by residents of, or those...
Laurel Canyon was the breeding ground for the confessional singer-songwriter sound made popular by leading lights Mitchell, Taylor, and King. It was the birthplace of the laid-back, uniquely Californian country-rock music pioneered by the likes of the Byrds and taken to unimaginable heights by the Eagles.
Between roughly 1965 and 1975, Laurel Canyon—a charmed cluster of swerving roads and offbeat cottages that recline between Hollywood and the Valley—lured grade-A musicians from Joni Mitchell to...
Those were just a few of Michelle Phillips' famous neighbors in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon in the late 1960s and early '70s, where she co-founded folk group The Mamas and the Papas with then ...
In the late 1960s, a marriage of rock and folk took place and much of the popular music from that union was being made in a single place — Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. From The Beach Boys to The...
Laurel Canyon touches on some crucial national history, including the Vietnam War and the massacre at Kent State. But, just down the hill, young adults demonstrated against a city-imposed...
