Led Zeppelin, probably more than any other rock band, have been the soundtrack of my life. Is that nobody wants to hear a middle aged man wax on about how much he loves Led Zeppelin.īut I can’t write an honest review of this book without at least mentioning how important their music is to me. But I still li One thing I am completely aware of. I’m always experimenting and searching for new sounds. But I can’t write an honest review of this book without at least mentioning how important their music is to me. Is that nobody wants to hear a middle aged man wax on about how much he loves Led Zeppelin. This is a solid biography of an elusive band and will be enjoyed by fans, musicians, and the curious.more Not being a musician, some of the tinkering around to achieve various sounds was lost on me but intriguing nonetheless. This in-depth biography charts the development of Jimmy Page as a guitar virtuoso and seasoned session musician leading to the inception of the band, its stunning success, management, tours, personal tragedies, and bad behavior. I do recall being bored by an overly long drum solo but drum solos always bored me regardless of the band. I saw the band live with (I’m assuming) a boyfriend who made such an impression that I don’t recall who it was. This in-depth biography charts the development of Jimmy Page as a guitar virtuoso and seasoned session musician leading to the inception o I was never a rabid fan of Led Zeppelin but the band did provide a sound track for some very good times (none of which will be revealed here). I was never a rabid fan of Led Zeppelin but the band did provide a sound track for some very good times (none of which will be revealed here).
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Led Zeppelin is the full and honest reckoning the band has long awaited, and richly deserves.more
Led Zeppelin gave no quarter, and neither has Bob Spitz. Not all the legends are true, but in Spitz's careful accounting, what is true is astonishing and sometimes disturbing. Led Zeppelin wasn't the first rock band to let loose on the road, but as with everything else, they took it to an entirely new level. The music, however, is only part of the legend: Led Zeppelin is also the story of how the sixties became the seventies, of how playing clubs became playing stadiums, of how innocence became decadence. Spitz takes the music seriously and brings the band's artistic journey to full and vivid life. His account of the melding of Page and Jones, the virtuosic London sophisticates, with Plant and Bonham, the wild men from the Midlands, in a scene dominated by the Beatles and the Stones but changing fast, is in itself a revelation. His feel for the atmosphere, the context-the music, the business, the recording studios, the touring life, the whole ecosystem of popular music-is unparalleled. But Spitz's authority is undeniable and irresistible. The band is notoriously guarded, and previous books provided more heat than light. That record sold over 10 million copies, and it was just the beginning Led Zeppelin's albums have sold over 300 million certified copies worldwide, and the dust has never settled. In Led Zeppelin, Bob Spitz takes their full measure, separating the myth from the reality with his trademark connoisseurship and storytelling flair.įrom the opening notes of their first album, the band announced itself as something different, a collision of grand artistic ambition and brute primal force, of English folk music and African American blues.
No one before or since has lived the dream quite like Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham. Whatever that term means to you, chances are it owes a debt to Led Zeppelin. No one before or since has lived the dream From the author of the definitive New York Times bestselling history of the Beatles comes the authoritative account of the group many call the greatest rock band of all time, arguably the most successful, and certainly one of the most notorious From the author of the definitive New York Times bestselling history of the Beatles comes the authoritative account of the group many call the greatest rock band of all time, arguably the most successful, and certainly one of the most notorious Rock star.
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