Barney Hoskyns is cofounder and editorial director of the online rock-journalism library Rock’s Backpages (www.rocksbackpages.com), and author of several books including Across the Great Divide: The Band and America (1993), Hotel
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Barney Hoskyns is cofounder and editorial director of the online rock-journalism library Rock’s Backpages (
www.rocksbackpages.com), and author of several books including
Across the Great Divide: The Band and America (1993),
Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons (2005), and the newly reissued
Waiting for the Sun: A Rock and Roll History of Los Angeles. A former U.S. correspondent for
Mojo, Hoskyns writes for
Uncut, the
Observer Music Monthly, and other U.K. publications, and has contributed to
Vogue,
Rolling Stone, and
GQ. He lives in southwest London.