Robert Plant: A Life

Robert Plant: A Life

by Paul Rees
Robert Plant: A Life

Robert Plant: A Life

by Paul Rees

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Overview

Robert Plant by Paul Rees is the definitive biography of Led Zeppelin's legendary frontman. As lead singer for one of the biggest and most influential rock bands of all time—whose song "Stairway to Heaven" has been played more times on American radio than any other track—Robert Plant defined what it means to be a rock god.

Over the course of his twenty-year career, British music journalist and editor Paul Rees has interviewed such greats as Sir Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Bono, and AC/DC. Rees now offers a full portrait of Robert Plant for the first time, exploring the forces that shaped him, the ravaging highs and lows of the Zeppelin years—including his relationship with Jimmy Page and John Bonham—and his life as a solo artist today.

Illustrated with more than two dozen photographs, Robert Plant: A LIfe is the never-before-told story of a gifted, complicated music icon who changed the face of rock 'n' roll.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062281395
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 10/07/2014
Pages: 384
Sales rank: 102,811
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Paul Rees has written about music for more than twenty years. He has interviewed everyone from Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and Madonna to Bono, Take That, and AC/DC. His work has appeared in many publications, including the Sunday Times Culture, the Telegraph, the Independent, and the Evening Standard. He was also editor of two of the UK's most successful and long-standing music publications, Q magazine and Kerrang!, for a total of twelve years. He lives in England.

Table of Contents

Encore 1

Part 1 Beginnings

1 The Black Country 9

2 The Devil's Music 24

3 King Mod 35

4 The Rubber Man 48

5 The Real Desperation Scene 63

Part 2 Airborne

6 Boom! Boom! Boom! 83

7 Valhalla 102

8 Blond Elvis 117

9 Sodom and Gomorrah 132

10 Crash 149

11 Darkness, Darkness 164

12 The Out Door 182

Part 3 Solo

13 Exorcism 201

14 Sea of Love 217

15 Tall Cool One 230

16 Crossroads 246

17 Good Times, Bad Times 256

18 Down from the Mountain 273

19 Rebirth 285

20 Gone, Gone, Gone 295

21 Joy 310

22 Coda 322

Acknowledgments 333

Sources 337

Index 341

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