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If you’re interested in Led Zeppelin, this is a must read.
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A bit disappointing. I mean, it is a very thorough book that has got all the facts right, but it is obviously written by a fan, who thinks Led Zeppelin are mostly a bunch of geniuses, which I find hard to believe. Not all of them all of the time. Especially not John Bonham, who must have been drunk for most of his short life. Also, I would have liked to understand the band members a bit better. That Bonzo went about raping, demolishing, humiliating etc. the way he did just because he missed home sounds like a superficial explanation. Also, there must be more to say about John Paul Jones. What kind of guy is he, or was he, in his twenties? The book is quite good and specific, and not too judgmental, about the band's misbehaviour on the road. What was entirely new to me is that the band was run by gangsters, tough guys, especially their manager. Their legal representatives were close to the mob. In the end the band, who invented hard rock and metal, in great part by developing the guitar sounds (fuzz, overdrive) we are now used to, though Hendrix did a lot of that too, in the end, they went under in a haze of alcohol, cocaine and heroin. And their fan base moved to punk and new wave.
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A long and storied career does not necessitate a long and (repetitively) storied telling. The editors failed to restrain the text which could have easily been clipped to half it's size.
A very good, no holds barred, biography of Zeppelin which highlights both what made them so successful, but also what led to their demise.
The book treads very lightly over the years from Bonham's death to the Ahmet Ertegun concert but these are probably more appropriate for individual biographies of the band members (although only Page has, to date, had a substantive book written about him).
The book treads very lightly over the years from Bonham's death to the Ahmet Ertegun concert but these are probably more appropriate for individual biographies of the band members (although only Page has, to date, had a substantive book written about him).
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There ain't no cure for the summertime (reading)...(right country, wrong group) . While this biography was at times compelling, it suffered from two flaws. The first was too much indulgence on the group's pharma and alcoholic indulgences. (Too much of a not-so-good thing? Here, definitely). The second- while there was sufficient homage paid to the "roots" of Led Zeppelin's blues, especially their influence on Jimmy Page (we're talking Southside Chicago and Memphis) , there was NO mention of the copyright and IP plagiarism perpetrated by the group on such artists as Willie Dixon, Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, and the Electric Flag. Led Zeppelin could have given the Chinese lessons in IP theft. But, the "balanced" treatment slipped into hagiography based on this neglect. Glad I read this in the summer...