The band's musical legacy is second to none.
This biography doesn't pull any punches. It's definitely the good, the bad, and the ugly. And there's plenty of all three, let me tell you!
About five decades down the line, it's easy to forget that Led Zeppelin weren't just rockstars back in the day. They were rock gods and they got away with countless things that would probably land them in jail today. Rockstars have never been upstanding guys, but the level of debauchery that characterized this band is unbelievable.
I really enjoyed how Bob Spitz revisited every era, exploring not just Led Zeppelin's rise to glory, but also the music at large during those years and how discordant the band was compared with what was popular back then. My favorite aspect of this biography is that the creation of each album is studied in details and it's fascinating to discover how so many of the band's classics came together.
A must for all rock and roll fans! And for 5.99$ via the link below, quite the steal!
Here's the blurb:
From the author of the iconic, bestselling history of The Beatles, the definitive account of arguably the greatest rock band of all time.
Rock star. Whatever that term means to you, chances are it owes a debt to Led Zeppelin. No one before or since has lived the dream quite like Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham. In Led Zeppelin, Bob Spitz takes their full measure, separating myth from reality with his trademark connoisseurship and storytelling flair.
From the opening notes of their first album, the band announced itself as something different, a collision of grand artistic ambition and brute primal force, of English folk music and African American blues. Spitz’s account of their artistic journey, amid the fascinating ecosystem of popular music, is irresistible. But the music is only part of the legend: Led Zeppelin is also the story of how the sixties became the seventies, of how innocence became decadence, of how rock took over. Led Zeppelin wasn’t the first band to let loose on the road, but as with everything else, they took it to an entirely new level. Not all the legends are true, but in Spitz’s careful accounting, what is true is astonishing and sometimes disturbing.
Led Zeppelin gave no quarter, and neither has Bob Spitz. Led Zeppelin is the long-awaited full reckoning the band richly deserves.
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