Much more than in Liverpool after the Beatles explosion or in San Francisco with the hippies, it was in the heart of London and Los Angeles that it was happening in the multicolored middle of the 1960s. All along the Sunset Strip, an industry was bubbling: studios, session musicians, clubs, local bands and others, publishers, magazines for teens and pros, the most influential radio stations. Yet it is from the English Grapefruit, specialist in London baroque pop of the same prosperous years, that this fabulous three-disc box comes to us: 90 tracks, 4 hours of music galore from the best (salt) water. We find some essentials of the similar box Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets released by Rhino in 2009, but nothing to complain about. The choice is very complementary, from the cult Sagitarrius and other Kim Fowley to the Beach Boys (a rarity of the SMiLE project), the Seeds and the Doors. Four years of concentrated pop magic.
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