Over ten years after When Giants Walked the Earth, Mick Wall's seminal biography of the b&, comes this major & extensively researched
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The final word on the world's greatest rock b&, Led Zeppelin. They were 'the last great band of the sixties; the first great band of the seventies'; they rose, somewhat unpromisingly, from the ashes of the Yardbirds to become one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time. Mick Wall, respected rock writer & former confidant of both Page & Plant, unflinchingly tells the story of the band that wrote the rulebook for on-the-road excess
- & eventually paid the price for it, with disaster, drug addiction & death. WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH reveals for the first time the true extent of band leader Jimmy Page's longstanding interest in the occult, & goes behind the scenes to expose the truth behind their much-hyped yet spectacularly contrived comeback at London's O2 arena last year, & how Jimmy Page plans to bring the band back permanently
- if only his former protege, now part-time nemesis, Robert Plant will allow him to. Wall also recounts, in a series of flashbacks, the life stories of the five individuals that made the dream of Led Zeppelin into an even more incredible & hard-to-swallow reality: Page, Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, & their infamous manager, Peter Grant. The culmination of several years research, this book tells the full, shocking story of Led Zeppelin from the inside, written by someone who has known Jimmy Page for over twenty years.