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A carregar... When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin (edição 2010)por Mick Wall (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A fantastic read, full of the magic and mayhem of the 70s and the biggest rock band in the world. Mick Wall has outdone himself ( ) Reading the final chapter in this biography I was in tears. And wondering how Mick Wall could make me feel like that for a totally indulged band of men, who have apparently spent their adult lives doing exactly what they want, without the constraints of (lack of) money or sense of responsibility. Mick Wall has done his meticulous research: reading the books, articles, watching the footage and even having access to the principle players & their retinues. He’s great at describing the music & chronologically telling what happened. Though the insertion of second person narration jarred to begin with, I got used to it. And yes, I found it sad if it’s true that Page has spent the largest part of his life trying to resurrect a band and a time that he was in control of that has gone. That Jason is unwilling to escape his father’s shadow - a family man who morphed into an aggressive thug with drink & drugs; and Robert, proud of his charismatic part in the band, but spending the rest of his life, roaming where the fancy took him, wanting to free himself from the impossible shackle of being the once 21 year old Rock God. An amazing story told page-turningly well. I always enjoyed the music of Led Zeppelin, and now I know the story of the band members and their manager. Fairly typical story of a band's rise to prominence, and everything that comes with it -- sex, drugs and destroying hotel rooms. One exception for Zeppelin is that they led the way in the hard rock genre. Probably good that the band only lasted until 1980, as it gives them more mystic. Better to quit young than to fade away as a has-been! Subject matter is fascinating, the stories are great but the writing leaves a lot to be desired. If this had been a biography of any other band there is no way I would have continued beyond the first chapter. However, the structure of the book encourages listening to the albums in turn as each album's background is discussed. So as a multimedia experience this was very good but as a standalone publication less so.
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 protégé, 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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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