When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography Of Led Zeppelin - Softcover
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.
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So this is the big one: a fat, juicy biography of the biggest band ever...Mick Wall, the veteran rock journalist, lays it all bare in a book that can only be described as definitive. (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
As well as being the most complete account yet of a great British rock band, When Giants Walked the Earth is, as its name implies, a document of a bygone age....Wall has done his subject proud. (SUNDAY TIMES)
'It deftly strikes the balance between lofty authority and finding a way to get inside the heads of its subjects' (GUARDIAN)
This fantastic account of Led Zeppelin's wild and decadent heyday is as detailed and definitive as music biographies get. (LONDON LITE)
The definitive account of rock legends Led Zeppelin (DAILY RECORD)
A fascinating and diligently reseached account of rock'n'roll excess. (YORKSHIRE EVENING POST)
The definitive book about Led Zeppelin... Mick Wall has done a fine job here and certainly knows his stuff. (BIRMINGHAM POST)
That Wall can add so much fresh details to the Led Zep story is in itself an extraordinary achievements. That he manages to humanise these planet-striding giants while doing so puts this book into the "definitive" category. (CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE)
We've read about the booze, drugs, devil worship and deviant sex... Mick Wall delves a loot deeper into the dark stuff (IRISH TIMES)
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As well as being the most complete account yet of a great British rock band, When Giants Walked the Earth is, as its name implies, a document of a bygone age....Wall has done his subject proud. (SUNDAY TIMES)
'It deftly strikes the balance between lofty authority and finding a way to get inside the heads of its subjects' (GUARDIAN)
This fantastic account of Led Zeppelin's wild and decadent heyday is as detailed and definitive as music biographies get. (LONDON LITE)
The definitive account of rock legends Led Zeppelin (DAILY RECORD)
A fascinating and diligently reseached account of rock'n'roll excess. (YORKSHIRE EVENING POST)
The definitive book about Led Zeppelin... Mick Wall has done a fine job here and certainly knows his stuff. (BIRMINGHAM POST)
That Wall can add so much fresh details to the Led Zep story is in itself an extraordinary achievements. That he manages to humanise these planet-striding giants while doing so puts this book into the "definitive" category. (CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE)
We've read about the booze, drugs, devil worship and deviant sex... Mick Wall delves a loot deeper into the dark stuff (IRISH TIMES)
The final word on the world's greatest rock band, Led Zeppelin.
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- PublisherOrion
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1409103714
- ISBN 13 9781409103714
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages496
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