Led zeppelin autobiography
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Led Zeppelin: The Biography (Paperback)
“In this authoritative, unsparing history of the biggest rock group of the 1970s, Spitz delivers inside details and analysis with his well-known gift for storytelling.” —People
“★★★½ out of four . . . The good, the bad and the ugly coexist in the Led Zeppelin story, and Spitz knows well enough to report and tell it all.” —USA Today
“Spitz’s deep research shows in spades: He’s either interviewed or culled past interviews with the principals as well as many of the lesser-visited people around them—childhood friends, former bandmates, various people from the business—to present a view of the band that, while familiar, provides enough new detail to capture even the most educated Zep fan’s imagination.” —Variety, Best Music Books of 2021
“Spitz, who has written well-regarded biographies of the Beatles and Julia Child, delivers a 600-page tome that collects every (reliable) story previously reported, and is bolstered by original reporting and interviews—all delivered in brisk and straightforward prose . . . The book is peppered with musical refe
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I have read Stephen Davis' Hammer of the Gods, Richard Cole's Stairway to Heaven, plus biographies on Jimmy Page, Peter Grant, and Pamela DesBarres' I'm With the Band.
This is easily the best book on Zeppelin I've ever read.
Where most books on Zep fail is that they are usually chronologies written after the fact, by people who weren't there. Cole's book is the exception in that regard, but Wall's book goes much further than Cole's. Wall may not have been with Zeppelin every step of the way like Cole, but he did have access. He draws on many first-hand interviews he himself conducted with the band over the years to paint what is the clearest picture Led Zeppelin I've read yet. To Wall's own interviews, he also draws expertly from the other books I mentioned and countless other sources to tell the story. He does so in an extremely organized and effective way, by pulling the right quote from the right source at precisely the right time to make the point and move the story along.
What is even more effective, however, are the areas where Wall takes some artistic license and writes sequences using 2nd-person voice that attempt to capture what was going on in each member's head at different stages of their careers:
For example:
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