The final word on the world's greatest rock band, Led Zeppelin.
Mick Wall was the founding editor of Classic Rock Magazine. He's the author of numerous music titles, including books on Iron Maiden, Don Arden, Axl Rose, Led Zeppelin and John Peel. He ghosted XS All Areas: The Autobiography of Status Quo and is a former DJ on Capital Radio.
A document of a bygone age... they summed up the best and worst of
rock culture in the 1970s
*TIMES*
an exemplary rock biography
*CATHOLIC HERALD*
Well illustrated and utterly compelling
*HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER*
A document of a bygone age... they summed up the best and worst of
rock culture in the 1970s -- Robert Sandall * TIMES *
an exemplary rock biography * CATHOLIC HERALD *
Well illustrated and utterly compelling * HUDDERSFIELD DAILY
EXAMINER *
In the days before the Internet, this would have been hailed as the definitive tome on one of rock's most hallowed bands. And it still might be. But with virtually every Zeppelin secret or anecdote posted on some web page, this book is a bit of an anticlimax for hard-core Zepheads craving new info. But this biography, built from research and personal interviews with band members, can be a bible on the band for general music fans who don't fill their closets with Zeppelin concert bootlegs. British music journalist Wall (W.A.R.: The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose) deserves credit for refraining from retreading groupie stories or the drama of premature deaths; instead, he devotes ample space to the idea of Zeppelin's musical plagiarism and explores, in much detail, guitarist Jimmy Page's fascination with the occult. Verdict Save for some awkward second-person passages "flashing back" to band members' pasts, Wall's thorough book can be as engrossing and epic as a Zeppelin tune. Recommended for rock music fans and anyone with curiosities about pop culture and the occult.-Robert Morast, Fargo, ND Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
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