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Joel Selvin
Joel Selvin has covered rock and pop music for The San Francisco Chronicle since 1970. He is the author of numerous books, including Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History (For the Record); Summer of Love: The Inside Story of LSD; San Francisco, The Musical History Tour: A Guide to over 200 of the Bay Area's Most Memorable Music Sites; Photopass: The Rock & Roll Photography of Randy Bachman; Monterey Pop; Rock & Roll, Free Love and High Times in the Wild West; and Ricky Nelson: Idol for a Generation, which was nominated for the Ralph J. Gleason Award as Music Book of the Year.

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Book Cover Summer Of Love
by Joel Selvin

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the West Coast, particularly San Francisco, was the epicenter of rock music. Culled from more than 200 interviews with all the major players, including Jerry Garcia, Grace Slick, David Crosby, and Steve Miller, Summer of Love is the definitive book about the Psychedelic Era. Selvin provides an uncensored look at the acid-laced jam sessions, bacchanal parties, crimes of passion, run-ins with ruthless promoters and lawmen, overdoses, rivalries, deaths, and, of course, the music. Filled with never-before-told stories of The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Janis Joplin, Country Joe and the Fish, Creedance Clearwater Revival, and non-musicians like Bill Graham and Ken Kesey, this book presents an unforgettable, kaleidoscopic portrait of a crucial era in American music.

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Book Cover Treasures of the Hard Rock Cafe: The Official Guide to the Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia Collection
by Joel Selvin and Paul Grushkin

This oversized faux-leather hardcover with gold gilt titles contains beautiful photographs of the collection of rock-and-roll memorabilia owned by the Hard Rock Cafe.

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