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‘Timely tales of rock star excess’ LA Times
"LZ-'75" is a must read for all Led Zeppelin fans as well as anyone interested in the reality of rock stars and the lives they lead.’ Metal Underground
Praise for ‘Hammer of the Gods’:
'The biggest surprise success of the year . . . the Led Zep tale, drenched in sex, drugs and psychic abuse, demonstrated the validity of all the old adages about talent, power and corruption. Stephen Davis's grimy homage to imperial excess and demonic influence had fans slavering for more' Rolling Stone
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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 purple shag 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 its 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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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Hammer Of The Gods was Stephen's previous effort about Zep and their tour escapades.
That book became a good if not reliable source of tales from the Zep camp back in the hey day of the early 70's.
Most of his stories were however lifted from the much better and more believeable 'Stairway To Heaven' by Richard Cole,
This new book is based mainly on the troubled USA tour in 1975. Davis uses his collection of note pads and memos which amzingly have been misplaced for the last three decades.
Davis paints a picture of 4 guys who werent that happy to leave their mansions and families to embark on yet another tour. But when they got to LA, the usual debauched image of Drugs,groupies and black magic takes hold.Happy Days!
He blags his way to meet Jimmy Page on the back of a stolen pre published manuscript from another guys interview. Then having secured a seat at the court of Mr Plant ( gettng these meetings was very very hard and yet he was staying in the same hotel)he eventually finds that his interviews dont get published anyway!
Apart from some juicy gossip as a result of a hillarious 'interview' with two roadies theres nothing new here that most Zep fans didnt already know.
The concert recollections could have been collated by anyone with a good set of bootlegs from the tour.
Still for a fan like me who luckily saw them on the first and last night at Earls Court I have to agree with Davis that Zep peaked as a live and Studio band in 1975.
The demons that followed them throughtout that year only increased in time and ultimately finshed them off in 1980.
I'd recommend this book to younger Zep fans with curiosity about the myths that will always surround this most magnifcent of Rock bands.
That book became a good if not reliable source of tales from the Zep camp back in the hey day of the early 70's.
Most of his stories were however lifted from the much better and more believeable 'Stairway To Heaven' by Richard Cole,
This new book is based mainly on the troubled USA tour in 1975. Davis uses his collection of note pads and memos which amzingly have been misplaced for the last three decades.
Davis paints a picture of 4 guys who werent that happy to leave their mansions and families to embark on yet another tour. But when they got to LA, the usual debauched image of Drugs,groupies and black magic takes hold.Happy Days!
He blags his way to meet Jimmy Page on the back of a stolen pre published manuscript from another guys interview. Then having secured a seat at the court of Mr Plant ( gettng these meetings was very very hard and yet he was staying in the same hotel)he eventually finds that his interviews dont get published anyway!
Apart from some juicy gossip as a result of a hillarious 'interview' with two roadies theres nothing new here that most Zep fans didnt already know.
The concert recollections could have been collated by anyone with a good set of bootlegs from the tour.
Still for a fan like me who luckily saw them on the first and last night at Earls Court I have to agree with Davis that Zep peaked as a live and Studio band in 1975.
The demons that followed them throughtout that year only increased in time and ultimately finshed them off in 1980.
I'd recommend this book to younger Zep fans with curiosity about the myths that will always surround this most magnifcent of Rock bands.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
An easy read, but difficult to believe a lot of the stories given the author's reputation for er, distorting the truth some what.And do we really believe the author's lost journals suddenly turned up again years later enabling him to frame most of the stories in this book? Quite.
Any Zep fan worth their salt will soon spot the inaccuracies in any case, but it's worth a read to get a flavour of what Zep were really all about back in '75. Not worth buying then, but worth picking up from the bargain bin. An ok read, just.
Any Zep fan worth their salt will soon spot the inaccuracies in any case, but it's worth a read to get a flavour of what Zep were really all about back in '75. Not worth buying then, but worth picking up from the bargain bin. An ok read, just.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Livre plutôt sympathique, qui se lit vite, mais vite oublié. Pour mordus du groupe.
Rather nice book, fast read, fast forgotten. For Zepheads.
Rather nice book, fast read, fast forgotten. For Zepheads.
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