Combining oral and illustrated history with a connective narrative, Turn Up the Radio! captures the zeitgeist of the Los Angeles rock and pop music world between the years of 1956 and 1972. Featuring hundreds of rare and previously unpublished photographs and images of memorabilia, this collection highlights dozens of iconic bands and musicians, including the Doors, the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds, CSN, the Monkees, the Rolling Stones, Ike and Tina Turner, Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran, Ritchie Valens, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa, Thee Midniters, Sonny and Cher, and many others. The book also digs deep to uncover the studio musicians, background vocalists, songwriters, producers, and engineers who helped propel the Los Angeles rock and pop music scene to such a legendary status, such as Bones Howe, Barney Kessel, B. J. Baker, Merry Clayton, Jack Nitzsche, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Bobby Womack, and Kim Fowley. Finally, Turn Up the Radio! pays tribute to the DJs who brought the music of Los Angeles to fans throughout Southern California—and, ultimately, the world—including Art Laboe, Dave Hull, the Real Don Steele, and Dave Diamond. Packed with exclusive interviews, this one-of-a-kind keepsake is a must-have for any music fan. Music journalist Kubernik ( A Perfect Haze ) takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the L.A. music scene at a pivotal period in pop music history. Compiling over 200 interviews (both original and borrowed) with musicians and behind-the-scenes personnel, Kubernik constructs the narrative as an oral history, sewing together anecdotal snippets by radio DJs like Art Laboe, songwriters like Mike Stoller, Jerry Leiber, and Lou Adler, and producers like Phil Spector. There are behind the scene tales of up and coming artists at work, who went on to become icons, such as Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, Sonny and Cher, The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, and more, including lesser known but highly respected players like singer Betty Jane Baker. Illustrated with candid photos, concert posters, newspaper clippings, ticket stubs, the book projects the enthusiasm of a personal scrapbook. Less of an authoritative history in scope, Kubernik hones the creative energy of the era and successfully presents the era's atmosphere—an era where music transcended race, the summer of love and iconic festivals were in full swing, and music pioneers on the stage or behind the radio and labels were facing the ups and downs of the business. Color Photos."— Publishers Weekly "Music journalist Kubernik, building upon his excellent Canyon of Dreams (2012), captures the excitement of rock in Los Angeles from its inception to the early 1970s. Using more than 200 interviews, some previously published, which he conducted over the past 38 years, he pieces together an intriguing oral history of the musicians, songwriters, managers, producers, and DJs who dominated and shaped the L.A. scene....A lavishly illustrated and comprehensive view of rock and roll in Los Angeles by the people who created it that will interest all types of readers."— Library Journal "Gargantuan and sprawling, just like the City of Angels. . . . Kubernik is like the music super fan who saved all his Top 40 surveys and concert tickets, posters and celebrity photos, and found a perfect repository: this book. A bonus: The guy can write, and he includes interviews, of both stars and behind-the-scenesters—record producers, engineers and songwriters, as well as his beloved pop stars and DJs."—Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle "A golden-age coffee table book, and memorable for all sorts of left-field comment."—Greil Marcus "The book is filled with stories and photos of home-grown L.A. legends such as the Beach Boys, the Doors, the Byrds and the Mamas and the Papas. But it also includes acts such as Arthur Lee and Love, East Los Angeles legends Thee Midniters, the Little Richard-esque duo Don and Dewey and dozens more. And, in the area that most distinguishes it from nearly every other book on the L.A. scene, Kubernik focuses attention on the behind-the-scenes maestros, producers such as Phil Spector, Sonny Bono, and Kim Fowley, influential radio DJs such as Dave Hull, Art Laboe, and B. Mitchell Reed, as well as studio owners, recording engineers and music publishers and promoters."— Orange County Register "A love song to L.A.'s rock 'n roll history, Turn Up The Radio! is a must-have book for any music-loving Angeleno."— Los Angeles magazine “ Turn Up the Radio! takes a trip back in time to the roots of rock in Los Angeles. Veteran music journalist and local native Harvey Kubernik’s coffee table tome is a treasure trove of vintage pics and historical anecdotes.”— Hollywood Reporter “A massive, and massively cool collection of L.A. rock ephemera and recollections from classic acts of the 50s-70s, with an emphasis on the importance of local radio in the development of the groundbreaking music of that era. It’