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"This compelling story of the writing and recording of Led Zeppelin IV is full of passionate insights into the mayhem, madness, and creative processes behind one of the most influential albums of all time. This book explains how Led Zeppelin, recognized as the first true rock gods with three platinum albums in quick succession, had been shrouded in intrigue, with legendary tales of debauched excesses, orgies, black magic, and satanic pacts. Included are details on how a clever studio deal afforded the band total artistic freedom to create an explosive and massive new sound with a heavy sex groove that would redefine rock music and create an entirely new genre: heavy metal. The exhaustive track-by-track analysis includes commentary on “Stairway to Heaven,” “Black Dog,” and “Rock and Roll.”"
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Andy Fyfe is a music journalist who has written for Smash Hits, Total Sport, Select, and Q.
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Fyfe dissects the development of Led Zeppelin's fourth album, officially untitled but variously known as "Led Zeppelin IV," "Zoso," "Untitled," and "Four Symbols/Four Runes" but most comprehensibly identified to nonfans as "The Stairway Album" (for its big hit, "Stairway to Heaven") with astonishing enthusiasm. Long ago and far away, the godfathers of heavy metal's musical peers and the press pooh-poohed them, "even though they had managed to turn rock music on its head." At rope's end, they responded with "a blueprint of such far-reaching consequence that it would inform all R & B-based music to follow," a phenomenally salesworthy platter that, besides the song rockers fanatically love or hate (i.e., the aforementioned "Stairway"), contains Cadillac's current ad jingle, "Rock and Roll." Readers who revel in the Zep will almost certainly love Fyfe's maniacally detailed celebration. The less enthusiastic may be entertained by its unintentionally Spinal-Tap pish vignettes. Mike Tribby
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