Los Angeles: High Times In Laurel Canyon And On The Sunset Strip

>>This is an excerpt from the latest issue of Rolling Stone, on stands until July 27th. When John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas sang the August 1967 hit "Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)," he might have had Pamela Des Barres in mind. For Des Barres, then an eighteen-year-old budding groupie, the wooded Los Angeles neighborhood of Laurel Canyon was "the door to paradise." "I lived in the valley, and you'd hitchhike through the canyon to get to Hollywood," says Des...

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