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.