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Summary: Awesome photos and unique insights into their music.
Review: A stunning book as much for the pic material as for the text content. Chris Welch knows this group and obviously isn't jaded by his back-stage association with them. Led Zeppelin are icons and Chris Welch goes a long way to explain why. Especially appreciated by me are the glorious full page photos of John Bonham; for some reason usually absent from most other books. Well done.
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Summary: Dazed and confused...the lud zuppulin story
Review: Apropos title for this 160 pages of torture (the writer did his best, it's the subject of the book that's the flaw: you may want to get checked for 'led' poisoning by the time your reading ordeal is over). Trivial piffle about an overrated group and their awful sounding songs. The writer gets five stars for the unenviable task of suffering this; the resulting storyline get zero. Next!
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Summary: What little info he could find about every song.
Review: Compared to most other Zep books available this one is extremely lacking in details. Information given about quite a few of the songs in this book can be attained by simply listening to the song lyrics. Some of Led Zeppelin's songs have been very well documented through the years, and that info is included in this book. But if your looking for the meaning behind more obscure song (ones that everyone and their dog already know the meaning behind) don't look here. If your a Zepp fanatic "The Stories Behind The Songs" is a waste of time and money. If your just starting to get into Zeppelin, and know practicaly nothing about the band this book has basic info that you can use.
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Summary: I didn't know that...
Review: Even if you're a die-hard Led Zeppelin fan, you'll find yourself saying the above when you read this book. Quite interesting and well-written.
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Summary: Led Zeppelin Deserves Better Than This
Review: I bought this book with the anticipation of learning all sorts of obscure Led Zeppelin trivia. I was also looking forward to finding out what inspired these guys to write some of the most memorable songs ever. I was dissappointed in both aspects.To be quite frank, this book just isn't long enough. If you've never even heard of Led Zeppelin before its a pretty good start, but it reads like the instructions for operating a VCR. There are a lot of good photographs in the book but the author or editor didn't even bother to put the album cover on the first page of the chapter about each album. If you're really looking for more on the greatest rock band of all time, look somewhere else. Most Zeppelin fans will find this book lacking.
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Summary: Led Zeppelin Deserves Better Than This
Review: I bought this book with the anticipation of learning all sorts of obscure Led Zeppelin trivia. I was also looking forward to finding out what inspired these guys to write some of the most memorable songs ever. I was dissappointed in both aspects. To be quite frank, this book just isn't long enough. If you've never even heard of Led Zeppelin before its a pretty good start, but it reads like the instructions for operating a VCR. There are a lot of good photographs in the book but the author or editor didn't even bother to put the album cover on the first page of the chapter about each album. If you're really looking for more on the greatest rock band of all time, look somewhere else. Most Zeppelin fans will find this book lacking.
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Summary: Don't buy this book
Review: I was very disappointed with this book. First, it doesn't contain much new information - the stories behind the songs are pretty general, and not interviews of Led Zeppelin. Secondly, the author says negative stuff about the music. For example: "There never was a real ending to 'Whole Lotta Love' and maybe it should have finished a chorus earlier than the final fade-out." Then on "Hey Hey What Can I Do" he says "It fades out in some chaos, which might suggest it was a trial run for a song weeded out of the final album-selection process". Thankfully Led Zepp didn't listen to people like this guy when they made their recordings.
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Summary: Don't buy this book
Review: I was very disappointed with this book. First, it doesn't contain much new information - the stories behind the songs are pretty general, and not interviews of Led Zeppelin. Secondly, the author says negative stuff about the music. For example: "There never was a real ending to 'Whole Lotta Love' and maybe it should have finished a chorus earlier than the final fade-out." Then on "Hey Hey What Can I Do" he says "It fades out in some chaos, which might suggest it was a trial run for a song weeded out of the final album-selection process". Thankfully Led Zepp didn't listen to people like this guy when they made their recordings.
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Summary: Zeppelin rules
Review: If you like knowing the stories behind the songs, then you'll like this book. Some of the stories will surprise you. Then again, any book on Zeppelin will be infinitely more interesting than any book on any other band.
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Summary: Zeppelin rules
Review: If you like knowing the stories behind the songs, then you'll like this book. Some of the stories will surprise you. Then again, any book on Zeppelin will be infinitely more interesting than any book on any other band.
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