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“One of the most notorious rock biographies ever written.” (Chicago Tribune )
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The members of Led Zeppelin are major deities in the pantheon of rock gods. The first and heaviest of the heavy metal monsters, they violently shook the foundations of rock music and took no prisoners on the road. Their tours were legendary, their lives were exalted—and in an era well known for sex and drugs, the mighty Zeppelin set an unattainable standard of excess and mythos for any band that tried to follow them. They were power, they were fantasy, they were black magic. No band ever flew as high as Led Zeppelin or suffered so disastrous a fall. And only some of them lived to tell the tale.
Hammer of the Gods is the New York Times bestselling epic saga of the hard reign of Page, Plant, Jones, and Bonham—a spellbinding, electrifying, no-holds-barred classic of rock 'n' roll history that has now been updated to include the continuing adventures of the band.
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The maledicta, infamous libels, and annoying rumors concerning Led Zeppelin began to circulate like poisoned blood during the British rock quartet's third tour of America in 1969. Read the first page
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This review is from: Hammer of the Gods (Perfect Paperback)
This book was thoroughly written, and touched on every album and major concert and event that surrounded Zeppelin. It was pretty interesting, and I was able to pay attention to it, which sometimes doesnt happen with musical books. Went into interesting detail and had some interesting song facts I didnt know.I recomend this book to anyone wanting to expand their knowledge on this amazing band!
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The Guiltiest of Guilty Pleasures...,
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This review is from: Hammer of the Gods (Perfect Paperback)
First off, let's say that any book that is using Richard Cole and Pamela Des Barres as actual SOURCES, well pardon the pun, but it makes me wonder....Anyway, this is a fun book. Make my review three and a half stars. The pluses, it's well written and the story chugs along with the pace of "Communication Breakdown." The negatives? Well, Cole and Des Barres (both "wrote" their own books later) to begin with and Davis's Bibliography is thin. But then again, Led Zeppelin's relationship with the media were like the Korean DMZ. Rarely did the two peacefully co-exist, so you can't blame the author for thin reference sources. I've read this book three times, it's admittedly my favorite Rock Bio, but I certainly recognize its flaws. But the thing that I admire most is that Davis never forgets Zeppelin's music. One can see that he so obviously loves their music and admires their musicianship and prowess, it's just that he is less enamored with their personal conduct. It's been almost 20 years since it's publication and it is still the best Zep bio by all odds.
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Don't expect too much from this fun read,
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This review is from: Hammer of the Gods (Perfect Paperback)
This book is extremely well researched and contains an incredible amount of detail about the band and its members. Its weakness, and it's a big one, is that the author gives the reader little sense of perspective or narrative comment. It reads like this: "This happened. Then this happened. And then this happened, then this..." While it would be a mistake to try and tell readers what to think, this account goes so far in the opposite direction that despite all of the wild and often abusive exploits of these musicians, it reads in the bland way newspaper stories often do. So much more could have been done with the material and while the author occasionally dabbles in the style of Tom Wolfe, not much is holding the narrative together except the paper the words are printed on. Oddly, the very end of the book contains some wondeful writing that surprisingly appears only there.
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