Barney Hoskyns: Trampled Under Foot - The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin

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Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin Barney Hoskyns 640 pages ISBN: 9780571259359 Faber and Faber 2012It takes little for a band of such stature as Led Zeppelin to start a raging wildfire or to cause tsunami-like shockwaves every time this behemoth shakes its tail. Literally, in 2012, when the band announced the release of its momentous reunion gig at London's O2 Arena it stirred waves of joy for millions of fans across the globe, further fueling the perennial discussion amongst fans and press about a possible reunion. Celebration Day (Atlantic, 2012) showed that interest in the band's music has never waned and, much more than that, it proved once and again that this is a band whose music and musicianship is a yardstick against which all others are measured. Furthermore, on December 2, 2012, the band's surviving members were recognized with the United States' highest arts award by President Barack Obama, for a lifetime contribution to American culture through the performing arts...

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