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How Michelle Phillips Almost Slept Through The Most Lucrative Moment Of Her Career · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Seacrest. Laurel Canyon A Place in Time, a
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Speaker 1: new two part documentary arrives on Epics this weekend that
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Speaker 1: explores the massive impact made in the music world by
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Speaker 1: the relatively small neighborhood community of Laurel Canyon in l
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Speaker 1: A in the mid sixties to late seventies. Legendary music
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Speaker 1: was born out of those hills, from the likes of
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Speaker 1: the Doors, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell, the Eagles, and the
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Speaker 1: Mamas and Papa's, who had one of the most famous
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Speaker 1: songs of the sixties, California Dreaming, which for the record,
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Speaker 1: was written in New York while they were homesick for
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Speaker 1: l A. And Michelle Phillips, who co wrote the song
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Speaker 1: with her then husband and bandmate John, almost missed out
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Speaker 1: on the most lucrative songwriting credit of her career because
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Speaker 1: she was sleepy. She tells Fox five. John woke me
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Speaker 1: up excitedly in the middle of the night and started
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Speaker 1: to play it for me, and I was just so tired.
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Speaker 1: I said, I'll help you write it, but tomorrow, he insisted.
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Speaker 1: So the second verse is really the only part of
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Speaker 1: it I wrote, But thank god I didn't go back
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Speaker 1: to sleep Part one of Laurel Canyon, A Place in Time,
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