If You Like Led Zeppelin...: Here Are Over 200 Bands, Films, Records, and Other Oddities That You Will Love

by Dave Thompson

Overview

(If You Like). It was, and it remains, the greatest rock band the world has ever seen, a giant from the moment of its inception until long after its demise. Even today, more than 30 years after its final flight, Led Zeppelin offers the final word in rock innovation the one band that so many try to emulate and so few come even close to catching. If You Like Led Zeppelin... is the unique story of how Led Zeppelin came together not just as players, but as influences and ideas. It unearths the music that the musicians themselves were listening to, to open up an entire new world of experience and excitement for both casual and committed fans. It then travels beyond Led Zeppelin, to the bands and artists who in turn took their own lead from the Zep. Packed with exclusive comments from friends, contemporaries, and peers, If You Like Led Zeppelin... is a unique window into the world from which Led Zeppelin was born, and the one it created in its wake. From blues and beat bands to California, Morocco, Mali, and beyond, this is the ultimate guidebook for anyone who likes Led Zeppelin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617134647
Publisher:	Hal Leonard Corporation
Publication date:	08/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	2 MB

Table of Contents

Introduction: Candy Store Rock 1

1 Where Were You in '68?: The Birth of a Band or Three 7

2 We're Gonna Groove: The Story of the Blues 17

3 Five Live Yardbirds and Other Stories: The Shape of Things to Come 33

4 No Introduction Necessary: Jimmy Page, Session Man 53

5 Blowin' in the Wind: Folk and the Folk Who Sing It 69

6 Look What They've Done to My Blues, Ma: The British Blues Explosion 85

7 Just Another Swan Song: The Little Label That Could 103

8 C'mon Everybody: Covering the Classics 111

9 A World in Their Own Image: Zeppelin Friends and Imitators 125

10 Paging Mr. Plant: Reunions and Repasts 149

Acknowledgments 155

Appendix A Forty Led Zeppelin Covers You Will Really Want to Hear 157

Appendix B Forty Must-See TV and Movie Appearances 165

Appendix C Further Reading and Writings 171

Appendix D Howling the Odds: One Hundred Must-Have Albums 177

Index 181