Bibliograph

Led Zeppelin, the biography, Bob Spitz

Type

Label

Led Zeppelin, the biography, Bob Spitz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

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

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Led Zeppelin

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1226900226

Responsibility statement

Bob Spitz

Sub title

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

Table Of Contents

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

Target audience

adult

Creator