This book was a phenomenal gift from Mike during our most recent foray to Taranna. It’s awesome!
Here we have the stories behind every song on every album, complete with context and historical information. This whole thing is an information overload! Published in 1998, it also has a whole section at the end for what the guys got up to after LZ ended (Plant’s solo career, the Firm, the remasters and boxed sets, even playing together at Jason Bonham’s wedding!).
Throughout the pages, too, are tons of great pictures, many of which I’d never seen before.
160 pages of Zep bliss.
Thanks heaps, Mike!!!
I have a pile of Led Zep books, but not this one. I have the Richard Cole bookin hardback too. I haven’t read them since I was in high school but kept them because they are nice the leaf through.
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The Cole one must be amazing.
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It’s been a long time since I read it – 1992-ish?
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Glad you enjoyed this! I did too, and then it had to passed on to someone else. Great recommended book though.
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Thanks again, Dude, this book is awesome!
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I would probably skip to the part about the hookers, blow and destroying hotel rooms. So in other words, the second paragraph.
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Haha yep. Actually, the opening paragraphs of the introduction are gold. And it gets better from there.
Have you read Hammer Of The Gods?
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No. I have so many music books to read it will take me years to catch up. I will get to it someday though.
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I’d heartily recommend that one get bumped to the top of the pile. It’s awesome. But I found that the follow-up, LZ-75, wasn’t really necessary. It was some new information with a lot of rehashing of HotG.
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Hammer is still the ultimate Zep book I reckon. Zoso.
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‘Tis so!
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Richard Cole’s one was a bit grubby – I gave that one away.
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I went to a wedding and they had a band. I think their name was Led Zeppelin. My wife requested Butterfly Kisses and they told her to sod off.
😉
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I think that was Zed Leppelin.
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