Led Zeppelin: The Oral History of the World's Greatest Rock Band - Hardcover

Hoskyns, Barney

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470894326 ISBN 13: 9780470894323

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2012

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""An exhaustive and exemplary portrait""--Bernadette McNulty, London Daily Telegraph

""This meticulously compiled oral history... has a wonderful humour and a careful examination of the how and why of the darkness that surrounded the band and its entourage.""--Hugh MacDonald, Sunday Herald (Scotland)

""An engrossing trip through the sordid '70s.""--Will Hodgkinson, The Times (London)

""Barney Hoskyns's exhaustive history... never forgets that behind the caricature was an extraordinary band, lithe and limber.""--Michael Hann, The Guardian (London)

""Hoskyns leaves no stone unturned."" --Publishers' Weekly

""Every time I think I know everything about Led Zeppelin, a book like this comes along and reminds me that I know nothing.""--Chuck Klosterman

""This is the proper book Zeppelin have always deserved.""--Nick Coleman, author of The Train in the Night

""Barney Hoskyns is rock's poet of observation, a journalist with a very valuable gift for separating the nugget from the slag. [This oral history] is a complex tale that makes sense of the senseless, weighing artistic triumph against human tragedy.""--Fred Goodman, author of The Mansion on the Hill

""The saga of Led Zeppelin told by those who knew them when, this intimate oral history goes beyond scandal to reveal the all-too-humans behind this most Promethean of rock bands.""--Lenny Kaye

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The definitive oral history of the iconic, bestselling rock band Led Zeppelin

With Robert Plant on lead vocal and Jimmy Page on guitar, Led Zeppelin is one of the most iconic, legendary, and influential rock bands in musical history. Tales of their indulgence in sex, drugs, and excess have swirled for decades. In this definitive oral history of the band, Barney Hoskyns finally reveals the truth about Led Zeppelin, paring away the myths and describing what life was really like for four young men on top of the world, enjoying fame on a scale that not even the Beatles experienced as a touring live act. Through fresh new interviews with the surviving band members, close friends, their tour manager, and scores of other fascinating characters, Hoskyns provides deep insights into the personalities of the band members and chronicles the group's dramatic rise, fall, and legacy.

• Based on more than 200 interviews with everyone from Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones to road manager Richard Cole, their late manager Peter Grant, and many others central to the Zeppelin story
• Features striking photos of the band both on and offstage, many published here for the first time
• Takes a fresh look at Led Zeppelin's music, cultural significance, and legend, as well as the highs and lows of the sex, drugs, and rock and roll lifestyle on the road
• Analyzes the way the band wrote, arranged, and recorded, from how they created the stupendous sound and dynamics on "Dazed and Confused" and "Whole Lotta Love" to the group's folk-suffused acoustic side embodied in songs like "Friends" and "That's the Way"
• Written by Barney Hoskyns, contributing editor at British Vogue who is the author of the bestselling book Hotel California and the co-founder of online music-journalism library Rock's Backpages

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0470894326
• ISBN 13: 9780470894323
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 576