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Book SynopsisHollywood 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 Times
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, 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 moder
