About the Author

Barney Hoskyns is the author of Across the Great Divide: The Band and America (1993), Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes & the Sound of Los Angeles (1996), The Mullet: Hairstyle of the Gods (with Mark Larson), and other acclaimed books. He has written for GQ, Rolling Stone, Harper's Bazaar, The Observer, and The Independent. He lives in London.