Hotel California

In the mid-sixties, American popular music took a Copernican turn when the New York hit factory was displaced by the velvety and Edenic anthems that began to sprout from Los Angeles from the great producer Phil Spector and groups like the Beach Boys, the Byrds or The Mamas and the Papas. From that moment, a series of artists, who began to claim themselves as singer-songwriters of their own songs, found in the Californian hills of Laurel Canyon and its surroundings a virginal paradise - in the middle of nature but one step away from the din of the great city- where to settle, put down roots and unleash their songs of an intimate and vindictive court. Venues like Troubadour, on La Cienega Boulevard, began to be frequented by the new horde of musicians, who aspired to play their songs live in front of the demanding audience, made up largely of the musicians themselves and aspiring stars. This is the story of the artists of that generation, who gave birth to some of the best songs of all time and whose legacy remains more relevant than ever.