Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin

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Formed by the unlikely alliance of two ace London studio musicians and two bar-band bumpkins, Led Zeppelin went on to create the template for the marauding modern rock ’n’ roll band. The original version of the book was a sell-out and has been the most requested book in the Rufus range.

Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin is the first and only official illustrated book to be produced in collaboration with the members of the band. Spitz has assembled a thorough and detailed history of Zeppelin, and his interviews with the band’s employees and contemporaries give the tale veracity. The first 100 pages of the book chart Page’s life from his childhood through to becoming a budding musician and session professional. Buffy Saint-Marie, who was arguably as innovative as Zeppelin in her work within folk traditions, never degraded her fans. Five Glorious Nights – Led Zeppelin at Earls Court May 1975, complied by Dave Lewis, captures the visual magnificence of the band through the photographic images of some of the finest rock photographers of the era – who were right there on the spot to capture rock history.Instead, Spitz frankly reassesses Led Zeppelin’s life and paints their career as dramatic and ultimately tragic.

It’s here where the book shines thanks to Spitz’s interviews with Dave Williams, a childhood friend of Page who provides fascinating anecdotes about Page’s first forays into the musical world. the band members were quite pissed off and claimed there antics were greatly exaggerated , yet they didn’t sue him for libel… hmmm.Led by the most brutal manager in the business, the quartet blitzed the world like a marauding army, crushing critical resistance and sales records as easily as they seduced groupies and consumed mammoth quantities of booze and drugs. It all starts with the blues, an obsession for English white boys of the ’60s looking to break free from safe pop strains. On early tours with Led Zeppelin, there were many sexual encounters with underage girls,” Spitz alleges. A magnificent book, comprised of gorgeous photos of the band doing their thing in the studio, and kicking ass on stage. It contains 34 pages which bear biographies of each member and various colour and black and white images of the group.

The good, the bad and the ugly coexist in the Led Zeppelin story, and Spitz knows well enough to report and tell it all.We have also listed the titles of the Led Zeppelin books in case you would prefer to look for the one you're after by title. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. I can understand that it is written for an American audience, which is sometimes annoying when reading mistakes about areas of the UK, and the usual ‘Americanisms’.

Another quality the book offers is that the pictures really capture the sheer power and electricity exhibited by this band on stage . It began a long association with the band that has now been profiled in a one book: Led Zeppelin Denmark 1968 1970.Other titles in the series include David Bowie, Queen, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Pink Floyd, The Beatles and Elvis. And the included facsimile memorabilia takes you there, with more than 20 fascinating pieces of musical history that you can hold in your hands. But like the band itself, what emerges most profoundly is the historic, stop-what-you’re-doing sound —loud, bluesy, unapologetic.