When Giants Walked the Earth: 50 years of Led Zeppelin. The fully revised and updated biography.

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Mick Wall

When Giants Walked the Earth

50 years of Led Zeppelin. The fully revised and updated biography.

Mick Wall

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Orion
14 April 2020

Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment; Popular culture

Over ten years after WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH, Mick Wall's

seminal biography of the band, comes this major and extensively

researched revision, which provides an unflinching look at life

inside one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time, and presents

the definitive, final word on 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 and former confidant of both Page and Plant, unflinchingly tells the story of the band that wrote the

rulebook for on-the-road excess - and eventually paid the price for it,

with disaster, drug addiction and 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, and goes behind the

scenes to expose the truth behind their much-hyped yet spectacularly

contrived comeback at London's O2 arena in 2007, and 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 and hard-to-swallow reality: Page, Plant, John Paul Jones,

John Bonham, and their infamous manager, Peter Grant.

By: Mick Wall
Imprint: Orion
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781409180616
ISBN 10: 1409180611
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 14 April 2020
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mick Wall is the UK's best-known rock writer, author and TV and radio programme maker, and is the author of numerous critically-acclaimed books, including definitive, bestselling titles on Led Zeppelin (When Giants Walked the Earth), Metallica (Enter Night), AC/DC (Hell Ain't a Bad Place To Be), Black Sabbath (Symptom of the Universe), Lou Reed, The Doors (Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre) and Foo Fighters. He lives in England. http://www.mickwall.com/home.htm http://www.mickwall.com/blog/blog.php https://twitter.com/WallMick