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They were the heaviest band ever, creating the blueprint for an entire musical genre and becoming a touchstone for an entire generation and their children. Now, to celebrate their fortieth anniversary and December 2007 reunion, here's the first-ever complete illustrated history of Led Zeppelin.
This all-star tribute to one of the biggest rock 'n' roll bands of all time features many of today's top American and English rock journalists from Rolling Stone , Creem , Billboard and more, as well as reflections on the band's inspiration from some of rock's top performers, including Aerosmith, Heart, the Minutemen, the Hold Steady, and others. An appendix features the complete discography.
Glorious concert and behind-the-scenes photography from some of the top names in rock photography covers the band from their first 1968 show as Led Zeppelin through the 2007 reunion. Also included are more than 200 rare concert posters, backstage passes, tickets, LPs and singles, T-shirts, buttons, and more from the United States, UK, Canada, Germany, France, and Japan, all comprising a book as epic as the band it honors.
Created from the ashes of the Yardbirds by guitarist and session wizard Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin featured virtuoso bass player John Paul Jones, gonzo drummer John Bonham, and Robert Plant, a vocalist like no other before him. The band singlehandedly defined what rock 'n' roll could be, leaving in their wake a trail of tales as tall or as a real as we wanted them to be.
Author Notes
Jon Bream, the award-winning critic of the Minneapolis Star Tribune since 1975, has the second longest tenure of any current daily newspaper pop-music critic in the United States. His work has appeared everywhere from the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times to Rolling Stone and TV Guide. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, Bream is the author of the bestselling biographies Prince: Inside the Purple Reign (1984) and Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin: The Illustrated History of the Heaviest Band of All Time (2008). Visit www.jonbream.com.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In this extensive collection of interviews, band memorabilia and photographs, longtime Minneapolis Star Tribune music critic Bream assembles the ultimate guide to the infamous rock group Led Zeppelin. Veteran performers Joe Perry, Peter Frampton, Ray Davies and Steve Earle, among many others, contribute commentary about Zeppelin and its tremendous impact on popular music. The book is a treasure trove of information, featuring tour dates, copies of limited-edition concert posters, delightfully fluorescent foreign advertisements and a wide variety of photographs from live performances. This is the ideal resource for obsessive fans yearning to absorb every bit of minutiae related to Led Zeppelin. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
The product of asking some of rock's best-known stars and critics to reconsider Led Zeppelin is critically uneven but visually arresting. The book's large format presents to good advantage hundreds of pictures of the band on stage and posing for publicity shots, album covers, posters, and the odd oddment, but the written coverage tends to be a mile wide and an inch deep. There are, for instance, seven citations of infamous occultist Aleister Crowley, but only to say that Zep headman Jimmy Page is a fan. Not that there isn't the occasional informative essay or pithy quote about the erstwhile kings of arena rock. Among the notable written contributions are Greg Kot on the band's first album, Gene Stout's report on Ann and Nancy Wilson's take on Robert Plant (the Wilsons later formed the band Heart), William S. Burroughs' 1975 interview with Page and, oh yeah! the truth behind the groupie activities that led to Frank Zappa's song The Mudshark. --Tribby, Mike Copyright 2008 Booklist
