Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip Anniversary Edition

By Robert Landau

The 1967 Sunset Strip exploded with rock culture as giant hand-painted billboards became temporary monuments to music's coming of age--visual celebrations beginning with The Doors that captured the revolutionary spirit of an era.

"Robert Landau's wonderful book captures a special time and a rare kind of elixir. Sunset Boulevard is still around today, but thanks to Landau's words and images we can time-travel back to the era when the dinosaurs of rock walked the earth. Billboards lined the Strip like mythic pillars, giving music fans like me a sense of wonder and belonging. I was sure that feeling would last forever, and turning the pages of this book... it still does."--Cameron Crowe, August 2026

The Sunset Strip, circa 1967. Buffalo Springfield called it right: "There's something happening here...what it is ain't exactly clear." What was happening then is now absolutely clear. Rock 'n' roll and the kids who lived it were coming of age--right there on The Strip. And, as if to define the era, a few independent minds in the music industry posted giant, temporary monuments that said it all. Billboards. Bigger than life. Hand-painted homages to rock. The Doors led the way. It seemed that billboards would chronicle rock forever.

In Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip, author/photographer Robert Landau showcases these signs of the time, a time when rock was the most important music ever recorded, when youth, politics, and art merged to turn counterculture into mainstream culture.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626401365
• ISBN13: 9781626401365
• Release Date: May 2027
• Publisher: Angel City Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.06 lbs.