Book description
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. Mick Wall was the founding editor of CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE.
He's the author of numerous music titles, including books on John Peel,
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.
