Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga

Good book for Zeppelin fans.This book can serve as biography, music as well as history book.

Its a bad duplicate reprint. Not an authentic paperback

I loved this book! I read When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zepplin by Mick Wall before reading this book. This book, although sometimes descending to a kind of tabloid fodder, was much more interesting and straight forward. I enjoyed it exceptionally.

A well researched, comprehensive study of life on the road with the pioneers of stadium rock concerts.

After recently reading the book by Duff on Guns and Roses I was told it didn't hold a candle to this book of Led Zeppelin. Well, I disagree. In fact, told from a first person's perspective, I found it to be much better. That's not to say this isn't an excellent biography of Led Zeppelin. It is quite good and I definitely enjoyed it. This book doesn't just start with Led Zeppelin but gives full background particularly starting with Jimmy Page who had the earlier Yardbirds. What becomes evident from reading this book is how the chemistry of the members made the band what it was. I knew Led Zeppelin but really didn't follow their music in depth. This book really fills in the holes and shows what they created which they probably never have received full credit for. Hey, they're not the Beatles or Stones. But what they did in their genre and how they worked so hard and stayed together without much in-fighting to create this magic is well represented in this book. They book does cover the groupie debauchery with which I had some familiarity from previously reading Pamela des Barres' book "I'm With the Band". But I didn't find it to be covered in total depth, more in rumor. Also, their black magic fetish is really not clear but without a question Jimmy Page particularly is a weird dude. As is typical, drugs and alcohol eventually take their toll but to the credit of the group, when a member is lost, the group doesn't try to weather on and steal money. How these guys survived this to live normal productive lives is probably as interesting as anything. Overall, a very good read on an epic musical influence that I strongly recommend.

I am very happy with my purchase. The book was hard to put down. I will heartily recommend it.

The real deal on Led Zep!