David Leaf
David Leaf is an award-winning writer, director, and producer, whose feature credits include the Venice Film festival favorite The U.S. vs. John Lennon, the Grammy-nominated Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of SMiLE, The Night James Brown Saved Boston, and Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is 'Everybody Talkin' About Him?). As well as publishing the seminal The Beach Boys and the California Myth in 1978, David wrote the Bee Gees' authorized autobiography. Leaf is also a professor at...See more
David Leaf is an award-winning writer, director, and producer, whose feature credits include the Venice Film festival favorite The U.S. vs. John Lennon, the Grammy-nominated Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of SMiLE, The Night James Brown Saved Boston, and Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is 'Everybody Talkin' About Him?). As well as publishing the seminal The Beach Boys and the California Myth in 1978, David wrote the Bee Gees' authorized autobiography. Leaf is also a professor at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music in Los Angeles. See less
David Leaf's Featured Books
David Leaf book reviews
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The Beach Boys
Still a fine book about the Beach Boys...
David Leaf's 1985 revision to his 1977 "Beach Boys and the California Myth" was the first real book about the band, and it is still a fine resource for Beach Boys fans curious about these enigmatic ... Read More
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KISS: Behind the Mask: The Official Authorized Biography
KISS Mania!
by Hellpig, May 29, 2008
As a I kid I was stunned and intrigued when I first lay my eyes on a picture of KISS, they were in mi eyes the coolest ever and they rocked. As an adult I still like their music and I am still ... Read More