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All the Leaves Are Brown
- How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
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Summary
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. All the Leaves Are Brown is a layered, revelatory tale of overnight stardom and its many pitfalls.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-02-24
Thorough, exciting, and a true rocknroll story of sad excess, huge highs, great talent and the downfall of downfalls
Great to hear about their backgrounds, how they came together and went from rags to riches almost overnight. A great social and cultural documentary. Also a detailed history of the the Monterey Pop Festival which John Phillips produced and drove from a wobbly start to being a classic in 1967 breaking Hendrix, Joplin, Redding and The Who and more.
Dark sex, drink and drugs stories throughout- true addicts - but what great music, voices and harmonies. John Phillips was an outstanding writer and producer until ego and drugs brought him down.
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