Their music blazed a trail across the world but Led Zeppelin's media silence was as deafening as their live shows. Throughout their extraordinary career the band were untouchables, refusing interviews & treating press attention with disdain. Few journalists were allowed to enter the house of the holy, even when Led Zeplin ll knocked Abbey Road from number 1 & Stairway To Heaven became the most requested radio track of all time.
Yet one writer did penetrate their inner sanctum. Ritchie Yorke has eaten, slept & breathed Led Zeppelin for the length of his distinguished career, touring with them & regularly granted an audience with the b&. The result is Led Zeppelin
- From the early days to Page & Plant. Originally published as The Led Zeppelin Biography in 1975, & frequently updated, it's a definitive rock work which is the most detailed study ever of a group who remained a closed book to every other writer.
Over two decades & 50 million album sales since it first appeared, this famous account of Led Zeppelin's odyssey is updated to cover the death of infamous manager Peter Grant & the successful musical reunion of Jimmy Page & Robert Plant. Led Zeppelin
- From the early days to Page & Plant is the stuff of rock legend.