"It was a critical moment in rock history—a time when innocence and ambition collided. Not surprisingly, innocence got the fuzzy end of the lollipop. The fallout was a musical climate so perversely corrupt that punk rock had to be invented. You had drug-filled hedonism, corporatization of pop music and the unwelcome emergence of an oxymoronic genre of music dubbed 'soft rock.' L.A.'s maestros of mellow had spawned a monster."
Erik Himmelsbach reviews Barney Hoskyns's Hotel California in the Los Angeles Times.
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