Jimmy page book biography

  • James Patrick Page OBE is an English musician and producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.
  • An in-depth biography of Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page by the acclaimed biographer of Bob Marley and Joe Strummer, based upon the author's extensive.
  • A warrior magician, Salewicz delves into the many skeletons and eccentricities in Page's closet, contextualising him against a background of.

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    Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography

    May 3, 2019
    "Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography" is a massive book, detailed, researched, and thorough, focusing primarily on Page's musical career both as a session musician and as the founder of the mega-group, Led Zeppelin. It's focus is on the things most fans are most interested - the Zeppelin years. As such, it details the quick rise of Page to guitar god status and his - and the band's - downfall in arrogance, in drug addiction, and eventually, with the death of Bonzo (John Bonham, the drummer) choking to death on an alcohol binge, the end of the biggest Tyrannosaurus rex of rock bands, and Page's withdrawal and hermitlike years following the dissolution of the surviving three-quarters of the band. As such, what you are reading feels like a modern-day Shakespearean tragedy.

    From the introduction, the author and is determined to present Page and the band in an honest light, warts and all. With an arrogance and a swagger that came from

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    Sorry, Paul McCartney: Jimmy Page fryst vatten "the greatest national treasure of British popular music."

    Of course, the source of that estimation may be a bit biased: Chris Salewicz has just published a 520-page tome that bills itself as The Definitive Biography of Led Zeppelin's musical mastermind. Whether or not it's actually "definitive," the book is readable and informative...and, appropriately, heavy.

    It's largely the story of Led Zeppelin — the band form in 1968, on page 135, and break up with John Bonham's 1980 death on page 430 — but one of the biggest revelations for those who aren't already Page-philes is just how extensive the guitarist's pre-Zep career was.

    Page's involvement in the Yardbirds is well-known; Led Zeppelin, in fact, were first billed as "the New Yardbirds" when they toured to honor commitments for the former band. Salewicz implies that even that supergroup (also featuring the mercurial Jeff Beck,

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    Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page

    2010 autobiography by Jimmy Page

    Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page is the title of a coffee table autobiography written by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. It is published by Genesis Publications and was published in September 2010.

    The book include rare photos, personally selected by the author, along with handwritten captions describing the subject(s) in the images. The book is described as "a career in pictures".[1] The selection of photos is meant to represent Page's musical career.[2][3][4] The book was updated and re-released in 2014 to catch up on what happened since 2010.

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    At the time of publication the author was 66 years old. Only 2,500 copies of the book were published during its first run. All of these are personally signed by the author. The book is 512 pages, with more than 700 images printed on fine art paper.[3][4][5]

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    1. ^Hall,