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Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. It was the anthem of the sixties. The psychedelic code by which many lived--and died. And John Phillips, legendary founder and songwriter of the Mamas and the Papas, experienced it all. Now Phillips takes us on a dizzying roller-coaster ride from stardom in L.A. to drug busts in the Big Apple. In an intimate, gritty, all-too-true self-portrait, he offers a startling, reflective look at the turbulent sixties and beyond. From a nightmarish, yet oddly tender childhood through a disastrous military school education in Virginia, John Edmund Andrew Phillips found music the only outlet for his brilliant, restless energy. He developed a personal sound after a rumbling journey through the clubs and honky-tonks of Greenwich Village, the Virgin Islands, Los Angeles, and the segregated South. He began to form the groups that soon brought him into the national spotlight: first the Smoothies, then the Journeyman, and finally the phenomenally successful the Mamas and the Papas. And as the hits rolled in for Papa John-- "Creeque Alley," "Monday, Monday," "California Dreamin'," "Go Where You Wanna Go," "Words of Love" --so did fame and wealth. He paid cash for a fab

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Author

John Phillips, with Jim Jerome

Publisher

Doubleday & Co.; Doubleday

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385231206

Category

music

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Music

Rating

3.74 / 5 (270 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13