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Boss Angeles! is your guide to the story of rock'n'roll in Los Angeles. Fact-filled entries by musician and writer Deke Dickerson pinpoint 70 significant sites: the birthplace of Louie, Louie; where the Byrds met Bob Dylan; Pandora's Box, epicentre of the 1966 riots on Sunset Strip; where James Brown recorded Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud; the burger stand where Brian Wilson hit on the idea for Fun, Fun, Fun; through to Rodney's English Disco, site of excessive scenes involving Iggy Pop, the Runaways and a cast of glam and punk ne'er do-wells.

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"""These magnificently designed fold-out maps provide unique and whimsical ways to explore dozens of locations around the world."" -- The New York Times"

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Deke Dickerson has devoted his long career to keeping America's roots music alive while interjecting new creativity into genres of music that flourished in decades previous. He moved to Los Angeles at the age of 22 and proceeded to found his primary band, Deke Dickerson and the Ecco-Fonics. Dickerson is currently writing the official biography of guitar legend Merle Travis. Dickerson is well known as a historian of roots music and regularly contributes liner notes to reissue projects for such labels as Capitol, RCA, Bear Family, and Sundazed. Fiction, reality and the otherworldly co-exist in Herb Lester's universe. Since 2010, our illustrated maps have documented the distinctive in the world's great cities as well as charting locations associated with literature, rock'n'roll, the occult and wider pop culture. Increasingly untethered to the real world, our range of notepads from fictional hotels make ideal souvenirs from places no one can visit.

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