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By Brad Tolinski
This “oral autobiography” of Jimmy web page, the intensely deepest mastermind at the back of Led Zeppelin—one of the main enduring bands in rock history—is the main whole and revelatory portrait of the mythical guitarist ever published.
More than 30 years after disbanding in 1980, Led Zeppelin remains to be celebrated for its inventive achievements, extensive musical effect, and advertisement good fortune. The band's infamous exploits were chronicled in bestselling books; but not one of the person participants of the band has penned a memoir nor cooperated to any measure with the clicking or a biographer. In Light & Shade, Jimmy web page, the band’s so much reticent and inscrutable member, opens as much as journalist Brad Tolinski, for the 1st time exploring his impressive lifestyles and musical trip in nice intensity and intimate detail.
Based on wide interviews performed with the guitarist/producer over the last two decades, Light & color encompasses Page’s whole occupation, starting together with his early years as England’s best consultation guitarist whilst he labored with artists starting from Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, and Burt Bacharach to the Kinks, The Who, and Eric Clapton. web page speaks frankly approximately his decadent but immensely artistic years in Led Zeppelin, his synergistic relationships with band individuals Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, and his outstanding post-Zeppelin pursuits. whereas studying each significant song recorded through Zeppelin, together with “Stairway to Heaven,” “Whole Lotta Love,” and “Kashmir,” web page displays at the band’s sensational excursions, the filming of the live performance motion picture The music is still the Same, his fascination with the occult, assembly Elvis Presley, and the making of the rock masterpiece Led Zeppelin IV, approximately which he deals an entire behind-the-scenes account. also, the ebook is peppered with “sidebar” chapters that come with conversations among web page and different guitar greats, together with his early life pal Jeff Beck and hipster icon Jack White.
Through Page’s personal phrases, Light and Shade offers an unparalleled first-person view of 1 of an important musicians of our era.
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