When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography Of Led Zeppelin - Softcover

Wall, Mick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1409103196 ISBN 13: 9781409103196

Publisher: Orion, 2009

Synopsis

The final word on the world's greatest rock band, Led Zeppelin.

They were 'the last great band of the sixties; the first great band of the seventies'; they rose, somewhat unpromisingly, from the ashes of the Yardbirds to become one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time. Mick Wall, respected rock writer and former confidant of both Page and Plant, unflinchingly tells the story of the band that wrote the rulebook for on-the-road excess - and eventually paid the price for it, with disaster, drug addiction and death.

WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH reveals for the first time the true extent of band leader Jimmy Page's longstanding interest in the occult, and goes behind the scenes to expose the truth behind their much-hyped yet spectacularly contrived comeback at London's O2 arena last year, and how Jimmy Page plans to bring the band back permanently - if only his former protégé, now part-time nemesis, Robert Plant will allow him to. Wall also recounts, in a series of flashbacks, the life stories of the five individuals that made the dream of Led Zeppelin into an even more incredible and hard-to-swallow reality: Page, Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and their infamous manager, Peter Grant.

The culmination of several years research, this book tells the full, shocking story of Led Zeppelin from the inside, written by someone who has known Jimmy Page for over twenty years.

About this title

Review:

A document of a bygone age... they summed up the best and worst of rock culture in the 1970s (Robert Sandall TIMES)

an exemplary rock biography (CATHOLIC HERALD)

Well illustrated and utterly compelling (HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER)

Book Description:

The final word on the world's greatest rock band, Led Zeppelin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1409103196
• ISBN 13: 9781409103196
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544