WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH: A BIOGRAPHY OF LED ZEPPELIN

Book ID/图书代码： 10010006B01434

English Summary/英文概要： 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 last year, 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.

The culmination of several years research, this book tells the full, shocking story of Led Zeppelin from the inside, written by someone who has known Jimmy Page for over twenty years.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 资深摇滚记者米克•墙继续向我们介绍了，在硬摇滚和重金属音乐的发展过程中占有相当重要的鼻祖地位的，同时也是20世纪最为流行的和拥有巨大影响力的摇滚乐队之一的，英国摇滚乐队，齐柏林飞船（Led Zeppelin）乐队。齐柏林是1960年代和1970 代第一支著名乐队，本书深入解析了齐柏林乐队的动人故事，由乐队前吉他手，吉米•佩奇和主唱罗伯特•普兰特共同书写的故事。生动再现，其间不仅细述了围绕在乐队成员主场普兰特和妻子的车祸灾难、和随后幼子的早年夭折，更提及吉米•佩奇和普兰特之间真实关系，包括它是如何影响到佩吉对神秘学的兴趣。全面而又深入细致的讲述，本书真实地再现了这支令人难忘乐队，不可复制的摇滚历史传奇。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：’So this is the big one: a fat, juicy biography of the biggest band ever...Mick Wall, the veteran rock journalist, lays it all bare in a book that can only be described as definitive.’---DAILY TELEGRAPH

’As well as being the most complete account yet of a great British rock band, When Giants Walked the Earth is, as its name implies, a document of a bygone age....Wall has done his subject proud.’---SUNDAY TIMES

’It deftly strikes the balance between lofty authority and finding a way to get inside the heads of its subjects’---GUARDIAN

’This fantastic account of Led Zeppelin’s wild and decadent heyday is as detailed and definitive as music biographies get.’---LONDON LITE

’The definitive account of rock legends Led Zeppelin’---DAILY RECORD

’A fascinating and diligently reseached account of rock’n’roll excess.’---YORKSHIRE EVENING POST

’The definitive book about Led Zeppelin... Mick Wall has done a fine job here and certainly knows his stuff.’---BIRMINGHAM POST

’That Wall can add so much fresh details to the Led Zep story is in itself an extraordinary achievements. That he manages to humanise these planet-striding giants while doing so puts this book into the "definitive" category.’---CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE

’We’ve read about the booze, drugs, devil worship and deviant sex... Mick Wall delves a loot deeper into the dark stuff’---IRISH TIMES

About the Author/作者介绍： Mick Wall was the founding editor of Classic Rock Magazine. He’s the author of numerous music titles, including books on Iron Maiden, Don Arden and Black Sabbath. He ghosted XS All Areas: the autobiography of Status Quo, and is a former dj on Capital Radio. In the late eighties he was a regular guest on Andy Kershaw’s Radio 1 show -- it was then, one night at the BBC that he first bumped into John Peel. Peel helpfully showed him how to use the coffee machine.

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