Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin: The Illustrated History of the Heaviest Band of All Time - Softcover

Bream, Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0760339554 ISBN 13: 9780760339558

Publisher: Voyageur Press, 2010

Synopsis

Now available in paperback, this all-star tribute to one of the biggest rock ’n’ roll bands ever features glorious concert and behind-the-scenes photography from top names in rock photography, 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. And if that’s not enough, top American and English rock journalists from Rolling Stone, Creem, Billboard, cover every Zeppelin LP in depth, while some of rock’s top performers reflect on the band’s legacy. An appendix features the complete discography.

About this title

About the Author:

Jon Bream is the longtime music critic for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the author of Prince: Inside the Purple Reign (1984) and Neil Diamond Is Forever (2009). He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

From Booklist:

*Starred Review* Eggleston has been called the father of color photography, by which is meant that he was the first to master color for the kind of insouciant, instantaneous aesthetic that burgeoned in the wake of action painting, the Beats, and Robert Frank’s groundbreaking road photography. The essential Eggleston photo seems to register a stopped instant in the flow of a visual continuum, like a frame from a strip of movie film. What is shown is nothing special, which is why he calls his work democratic, his process one of regarding no one thing in a visual field as more important than any others; he also takes pictures from any and every angle, playing no favorites. Composition is unpremeditated, though southerner Eggleston has quipped that his model is the Confederate flag, and indeed, image after image has a center: the edge of the heel of a canvas shoe in a flash-lit shot under a bed, the clasped hands of two trick-or-treaters on a colorfully crepuscular suburban road, a no-parking sign on a lamppost on a sunny urban street. Besides more than 134 plates, this invaluable retrospective contains stills from Eggleston’s cinema verité videotape Stranded in Canton (1974) and six cogent, jargon-free essays, the best by Eggleston’s longtime writer friend, Stanley Booth. --Ray Olson

About this edition

• Publisher: Voyageur Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0760339554
• ISBN 13: 9780760339558
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288