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Pete Johnson was a music critic for the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s [1] before being replaced by Robert Hilburn in 1970. [2] In 1969, he wrote The History of Rock and Roll [3] and appeared in another rockumentary, the Pop Chronicles.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Rock Archives "put [Ochs's] archives on the map". [2] During the eighties, Ochs hosted his Archives Alive radio show on KCRW, taught a History of Rock and Roll class at UCLA Extension, and was music coordinator for the films Hollywood Knights (1980); Liar’s Moon (1981); Losin' It (1983); and Christine (1983 ...
The Wrecking Crew is an American documentary film directed by Denny Tedesco, son of guitarist Tommy Tedesco. [2] It covers the story of the Los Angeles–based group of session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew, famed for having played on numerous hit recordings throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.
The Los Angeles Times is an American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. [3] Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo since 2018, [ 4 ] it is the sixth-largest newspaper in the nation and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760.
Hilburn worked as a news reporter on a suburban Los Angeles newspaper, The Valley Times, in the early 1960s, and was later a public information officer for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Eager to write about music, Hilburn began writing for the Los Angeles Times as a freelancer in 1966.
With members who had been part of the cafe-based folk scene in Los Angeles, the Byrds adopted rock instrumentation, including drums and 12-string Rickenbacker guitars, which became a major element in the sound of the genre. [30] Joan Baez and Bob Dylan during the civil rights "March on Washington", 28 August 1963
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With members who had been part of the café-based folk scene in Los Angeles, the Byrds adopted rock instrumentation, including drums and 12-string Rickenbacker guitars, which were initially seen by the band, being used in The Beatles film, A Hard Day's Night (film) which became a major element in the sound of the genre. [7]