Hotel California: LA from The Byrds to The Eagles(2007)

movie - first aired/released 2007-01-13 - 90 min

Music, Documentary

Directed by Chris Wilson

Documentary looking at the music and mythology of a golden era in Californian culture, and telling the story of how Los Angeles changed from a kooky backwater in the early 1960s to become the artistic and industrial hub of the American music industry by the end of the 1970s. The film explores how the socially-conscious folk rock of young hippies with acoustic guitars was transformed into the coked-out stadium excess of the late 1970s and the biggest selling album of all time.