Jimmy Webb: 'California was good to me. When people talk about the California Dream - well, that happened in my life and it wasn't a dream.'

By the late Sixties scores of musicians joined those already settled in the hills of Laurel Canyon, overlooking the Los Angeles landscape below. A socially conscious group of young hippies with acoustic guitars and high ideals gathered at the homes of artists such as Mama Cass and at hang-outs like The Farm.

Don Henley: 'You could drive down Sunset in a convertible and see people you knew and wave. Our lives were simpler; all we had to do was get up and think about songwriting.'

Riding the wave of success, a new generation was emerging in tandem with the rise of corporatisation. Seventies stadium rock was growing from the roots of Sixties folk. Joni Mitchell recounts,'This was a last flowering, almost like the end of the hippie spirit. This was before the crashing of a dream.'

Whether the Californian dream crashed or not, Henry Diltz was there throughout: at the Monterey Pop Festival with Jimi Hendrix; relaxing on Neil Young's ranch; tie-dying at The Farm with John Sebastian; making trips to Joshua Tree with America and the Eagles.

'He always seemed to be in the right place at the right time', says Robby Kreiger.

And with Henry, of course, was his faithful Nikon camera. 'Usually two Nikons, one for colour and one for black and white.'

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