Led Zeppelin : the biography

Summary: No one before or since has lived the rock star dream quite like Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham. Spitz separates the myth from the reality, starting with the opening notes of their first album as the band announced itself as a collision of grand artistic ambition and brute primal force, of English folk music and hard-driving African-American blues. Taken together, Led Zeppelin's discography has spent an almost incomprehensible ten-plus years on the album charts; the band is notoriously guarded. Spitz brings the band's artistic journey to full and vivid life. He shows that not all the legends are true, but what is true is astonishing, and sometimes disturbing. -- adapted from jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780399562426
ISBN: 0399562427
ISBN: 9780593492246
ISBN: 0593492242
ISBN: 9780399562433
Physical Description: print
673 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [645]-649) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue -- A case of the blues -- Getting down to business -- Reinventing the wheel -- Front -- The black country -- Don't tread on me -- Breaking through the sound barrier -- The new normal -- Into the distant past -- Invoking and being invocative -- Just boys having fun -- A law unto themselves -- The land of Mondo Bizarro -- Led Zeppelin was otherwise engaged -- Flying too close to the sun -- Home away from home -- The year of living dangerously -- The other side of the spectrum -- Their own private Sodom and Gomorrah -- A transition period -- Swan song -- Coda.