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LZ - 75 ACROSS AMERICA WITH LED ZEPPELIN |
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LZ - 75 ACROSS AMERICA WITH LED ZEPPELIN |
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| Author Name: |
STEPHEN DAVIS |
| Publisher Name: |
HARPER COLLINS |
| ISBN: |
9780007377947 |
| Subject: |
BIOGRAPHY |
| Edition: |
PAPERBACK |
| Language: |
ENGLISH |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Publication Date: |
2010 |
| Price: |
 744.00 |
| List Price: |
600.00 |
| You Save: |
144 |
| Availablity: |
Yes |
| Shipping Time: |
4 - 5 DAYS |
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| About Book |
Stephen Davis’s brilliantly-written personal account of criss-
crossing America with Led Zeppelin on their 1975 tour. A warts-
and-all snapshot of the world’s biggest hard-rock band at their
peak.
As a young rock writer Stephen Davis landed the ultimate
commission - touring America with Led Zeppelin.
This is a personal account by Davis of his journey, which saw him
crossing the country with the band on board the Starship, their
famous Boeing passenger jet, complete with deep shag purple
carpet, electric pianos, girlfriends and star-struck hangers-on.
This is also the story of one of the hardest-living bands in the world
at their peak. For Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and
John Bonham, the most beautiful women in America tear their
spangled jackets from them and riots start outside their gigs.
LZ-75 captures a few perfect months in rock, when Led Zeppelin epitomised the free-living rock
dream, but, like Icarus, their wings were already beginning to melt. It wouldn't be long before
John Bonham died of a vodka overdose, and punk killed their brand of monumental rock.
With it's up-close-and-personal accounts of band members, managers, groupies, fans and drug-
dealers, there's a lot of Almost Famous about this book - Led Zep's 1975 tour is in fact the very
one on which Cameron Crowe's film was based.
Stephen Davis was barely twenty in 1975, but now he is recognised as one of the best rock
writers in the world. He is the author of the mega-selling Hammer of the Gods - a biography of
Led Zeppelin. He recently unearthed his notebooks of the 1975 tour - which he didn't use for
Hammer of the Gods - to write LZ-75.
LZ-75: Across America with Led Zeppelin is a wonderful and unique thing - a beautifully succinct
account of a single moment in rock, when no lyric was too far-fetched, no drink went undrunk and
no expense was ever, ever spared. It's a moment that will never be repeated. |
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