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All the Leaves Are Brown

How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart

PUBLISHER: Backbeat Books
PRODUCT TYPE: Book [Binded]
INSTRUMENT GROUP: Books on Music
Few songs have captured the contradictions and ambiguities of the 1960s as memorably as California Dreamin', the iconic folk music single that catapulted the Mamas & the Papas into rock and roll history. In All the Leaves Are Brown, author Scott Shea details how John Phillips, Denny Doherty,
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Subtitle How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart
Author Scott G. Shea
Publisher Backbeat Books
Text language English
Product Type Book [Binded]
Instrument Group Books on Music
Year of Publication 2023
Genre Pop & Rock
ISBN 9781493072118
UPC 196288144397
Series Book
No. Pages 408
No. HL01226861
Release Date 6/15/2023
Description
Few songs have captured the contradictions and ambiguities of the 1960s as memorably as California Dreamin', the iconic folk music single that catapulted the Mamas & the Papas into rock and roll history. In All the Leaves Are Brown, author Scott Shea details how John Phillips, Denny Doherty, Michelle Phillips, and Mama Cass Elliot became standard-bearers for California counterculture, following their transformation from folk music wannabes to rock sensations and chronicling the tumultuous events that followed their unexpected success. Shea gives a definitive account of the group's short time together, from their hitmaking approach with legendary producer Lou Adler to John's unique songwriting to tours and friendships with other musicians riding the folk-rock wave. He explores the emotional vicissitudes that came with being in the Mamas & the Papas, from Cass's unrequited love for Denny, his affair with Michelle, and the ebb and flow of dysfunction in John and Michelle's marriage. And he explains how it all came to a crashing end with John's brainchild, the Monterey Pop Festival, which should have launched the group even further into the musical stratosphere, but only served to be their undoing. Drawing on new interviews with former bandmates, session musicians, family members, and many others, All the Leaves Are Brown is a layered, revelatory tale of overnight stardom and its many pitfalls.
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