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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
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It was a good book but I was pretty skeeved out by how often those dudes were hanging out with 15 year old girls.
This book is almost as legendary as the band itself. The black magic references are forced, to say the least, but in other ways it was a readable account of the band. The most striking thing was all the violence surrounding the musicians, Bonzo being one of the main perpetrators. The weakest part by far is the new post 1985 additions where the author puts down David Coverdale, for example. In all honesty, this 'second rate metal crooner' has surpassed Plant in every way as a singer, at least since 'Houses of the Holy'--imitator or not.
Yeah, it's trashy, and unauthorized, but as a modern day fairy tale, legend, myth, the story never gets old. Whatever irony may have mixed with voyeurism, has been replaced by respect for the skill at which their own story was so well-framed that even an outside biographer could but solidify the tale.
Astoundingly well written for a rock bio. Details include not only the tour shenanigans and performance reviews, but their philosophies and artistic aspirations, roots in Mythology, connections to blues, and reception in the US and Europe. As a huge fan of Robert Plant and LZ, I’m wondering how i missed out on this book. Published in 1985, it’s been updated to about 2007. Davis is obviously a fan of the group but doesn’t hesitate to depict their flaws. A must read for anyone who loves rock music.
If there's such a thing as pulp non-fiction, this is it. Davis's writing is lurid, self-indulgent, and ridiculous. But it's also undeniably fun to read (a particularly colorful description of the band and entourage as a kind of hard-rock Robin Hood gang--which casts the ever-provocative Robert Plant as Maid Marian--leaps to mind). One is of course left wondering how much of Davis's account is actually true, but without the mystery and the raised eyebrows and the vague accusations of pacts with the devil, it really wouldn't be Led Zeppelin.
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Exhaustive, and a bit exhausting.