Waiting for the Sun

A caustic, gossipy, refreshingly idiosyncratic history of the music business in Los Angeles . . . Shine[s] with early '60s tales of hack songwriters, calculating record companies, and motley unaffiliated hustlers all angling to produce a Top 40 hit . . . An unusually lively, provocative study

A hilarious, chilling, thoroughly scabrous history of postwar pop music in Los Angeles . . . Fascinating