Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin: Interviews and Encounters (7) (Musicians in Their Own Words) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1613747543 ISBN 13: 9781613747544

Publisher: Chicago Review Press, 2014

Synopsis

There are lots of wild stories about Led Zeppelin—some true, some false. Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin dishes up the facts, in the band’s own words, as they saw them. It shoots down the folklore and assumptions about Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham and presents the band’s full history, from when Jimmy Page was playing skiffle to the day the band was honored by the Kennedy Center for their contribution to American and global culture.

Any band is an amalgam of the players, but in very special cases, those players form an entity unto itself. Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin captures the ideas of all of the band’s members at the time they created classics like “Whole Lotta Love,” “Stairway to Heaven,” and “Kashmir” but also encapsulates the idea of the band itself as it crafted the music that changed pop culture. In the process, the book offers insight into what made Led Zeppelin tick—and what made it the most popular band in the world.

In a series of over fifty interviews from 1957 to 2012, many never before seen in print, this is the story of Led Zeppelin, as it happened, told by the people who knew it best—the members of the band.

About this title

About the Author:

Hank Bordowitz’s books include Bad Moon Rising: The Unauthorized History of Creedence Clearwater Revival; Billy Joel: The Life and Times of an Angry Young Man; Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader; The U2 Reader: A Quarter Century of Commentary, Criticism, and Reviews; Turning Points in Rock and Roll; Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business: Why So Much Music You Hear Sucks; and The Bruce Springsteen Scrapbook. He has written for Spin, Playboy, Jazziz, and hundreds of other publications and is an itinerant professor of music, the music business, and writing

Review:

"I still remember listening to Led Zeppelin’s debut album for the first time, the same year we recorded “Spirit In The Sky”.  We knew it was a game changer.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading this collection of interviews with Led Zeppelin band members.  Highly recommended."— Russell DaShiell, writer, producer, lead guitarist

"When Hank first approached me about my Led Zeppelin coverage from 1973 -- back when their gig at Tampa Stadium was crowned the biggest show by a single band in rock history -- I knew this wasn't gonna be just another Zep potboiler.  Hank is a tenacious researcher, an obsessive rock fan, and serves a mean lunch.  It's all good." --Arthur Levy, rock historian and archivist

"This telling is refreshing and does the unthinkable: it makes Led Zeppelin, beloved to the point of worship, actually likeable." —PopMatters
“You'll find a trove of interviews with guitarist Jimmy Page, singer/lyricist Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones and the late drummer John Bonham going back to 1957, and covering every phase of the band's evolution...Readers, even hard-core Ledheads, will likely learn much that is new from "Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin."” —The Record & Herald News

“This is about as unvarnished a glance at the Led Zeppelin phenomenon as there can be — it’s literally Led Zeppelin talking about Led Zeppelin — which makes it fascinating in and of itself.” —Rebeat Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1613747543
• ISBN 13: 9781613747544
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Bordowitz Hank