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Title	:	LZ-'75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin's 1975 American Tour
Author	:	Stephen Davis
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	October 28th 2010 by Gotham (first published October 1st 2010)
Categories	:	Music. Nonfiction. Biography. Rock N Roll. Led Zeppelin. Culture. Pop Culture

LZ-'75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin's 1975 American Tour Hardcover | Pages: 224 pages

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A revealing account of Led Zepplin's 1975 North American tour including all- new interviews with-and insider information about-the band, from the bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods.

As a young music journalist in 1975, Stephen Davis got the opportunity of a lifetime: an invitation to cover the sold-out 1975 North American tour of Led Zeppelin, the biggest and most secretive rock band in the world, for a national magazine. He received a backstage pass, was granted interviews with band members, and even got a prized seat on the band's luxurious tour jet, The Starship. While on duty, he chronicled the Zeppelin tour in three notebooks, but after writing his article in 1975 he misplaced them. After three decades of searching, in 2005 he finally found the notebooks, on the covers of which he had scribbled the words "LZ-'75," and unearthed an amazing amount of new information from the tour including:

• Lost interviews with canny vocalist Robert Plant and the brilliant guitarist Jimmy Page

• Information on the rock icon who moonlighted as a heroin dealer

• Revelations about the identity of the lover about whom Robert Plant sings in "What Is and What Should Never Be" and "Black Country Woman"

• A detailed chronicle of each performance from a musical perspective, and a vivid account of the band members' extravagant, and often troubled, lives on tour

Tied together by Davis's entertaining narrative, and including more than forty never-before-published photographs, LZ-'75 is an unprecedented and comprehensive personal portrait of the greatest (and most notoriously press-shy) rock band in history at its apex.

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ISBN:	1592405894 (ISBN13: 9781592405893)
Edition Language:	English

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I read Stephen Davis' most well known book, Hammer of the Gods, back in high school. There, along with every other 15-19 year old male, I went through the "Zep" phase. I could quote most songs, staunchly defended John Bonham as "the greatest drummer of all time" and thought Robert Plant was a D-Bag because of the Honeydrippers. I thrilled to the accounts of groupies being violated by dead sharks (made famous by the Frank Zappa song, "Mud Shark"), TVs being thrown off balconies and general

Those were the days when the rockstars ruled, the fans drooled and the parents were fooled. But those days are gone. It is a good thing that Stepen Davis found his old notebooks so he can tell the tale.

It was clear that the author of this book either needed a couple of bucks to pay off an old loan, or the publisher was looking to fill a printing/marketing space. That's not to say that this is a bad book - it just isn't a great one. The "behind the scenes" look at the band's lifestyle was interesting - it gives this middle-aged guy more reason to look at rock stars with an even greater jaundiced eye and say, "Seriously?" each time a news story or bit off the web talks about some off-the-wall

As a fan of the group and after hearing all the stories of their antics, I found this book pretty poor really. It laboured over the setilsts of each and every gig they performed, detailing how the band played each song, with which instrument tuber used. Yet all the meat and bones of their drug taking, fighting and debauchery was left lacking.

This book is a bootleg tape.It captures the highs and lows of what Led Zeppelin were in 1975 in a first person journal-entry style narrative. There is the scratch and fuzz of the audience feeding off the musicians, and the glimpse at Zeppelins raw powers. You see the fuels that light the band, and weather storms and hangovers with them.I was hoping for the feel of Almost Famous, but this band is already famous and infamous, and the books writing isnt consistently wistful enough to bring it that

Could have just watched "Almost Famous" again (or Song Remains the Same), but it was ok. I can't help but feel that a lot of the content chosen has to do with remembering what happened through the lens of what has happened since 1975. It was fun reading a first hand account, even if he only spent a few hours with actual band members, most of the time being spent with the entourage or [his] old girlfriends. So interesting read, but nothing too groundbreaking

Growing up a huge fan of Led Zeppelin in the pre-Internet age, there were few sources of detailed information on the band who had a notoriously poor opinion of the press to start with, which certainly added much sheen to their mystique. I read and re-read my copy of Stephen Davis' biography of the band Hammer of the Gods almost to tatters during high school.When I tripped across this book on a bookstore shelf, I immediately scooped it up. Davis, friends with the group's publicist, had