LED ZEPLIN BIOGRAPHY FULL
Led Zeppelin is the full and honest reckoning the band has long awaited, and richly deserves. 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. Led Zeppelin: The Biography cuts through the myth and murk to reveal the true story of the biggest, bawdiest rock n roll band of the 1970s. 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. An internationally renowned rock journalist and personal friend of the band members provides a warm, intimate, accurate account of Led Zeppelins heyday. 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.
Description 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
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