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Bring It On Home - Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin and Beyond: The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager (Paperback)
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Bring It On Home - Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin and Beyond: The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager (Paperback)
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Loot Price R114
Discovery Miles 1 140
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A SUNDAY TIMES POP BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF
THE YEAR A DAILY MAIL MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF
THE YEAR ('Of the many Led Zeppelin biographies marking the band's
50th anniversary, this is the most illuminating') OBSERVER BEST
BOOKS OF 2018 'An enthralling and rigorously researched book'
Sunday Times 'Blake has talked to everyone, and the stories are
both lurid and melancholy' Mail on Sunday 'A juicy saga of excess
all areas, Mark Blake's biography of Led Zeppelin's notoriously
combative manager, Peter Grant, reads at times like an
all-you-can-eat buffet of guilty pleasures . . . a riotous roller
coaster' The Times 'A tale as expansive and complex as the man
himself' Mojo 'To say Bring It On Home is a rambunctious
page-turner is an understatement; but despite all the violence and
weirdness, you can't help liking the "real" Peter Grant who emerges
here' Planet Rock The late Peter Grant managed Led Zeppelin to
global stardom. But his life story was every bit as extraordinary
and dramatic as the musicians he looked after. For the first time
ever, the Grant family have allowed an author access to previously
unseen correspondence and photographs to help build the most
complete and revealing story yet of a man who was a pioneer of rock
music management, but also a son, a husband and a father. Published
to coincide with Led Zeppelin's 50th anniversary, Bring It On Home
charts Peter Grant's rise from wartime poverty through his time as
a nightclub doorman, wrestler and bit-part actor to the birth of
rock'n'roll in the 1950s. From here, it explores his pivotal role
in the formation of Led Zeppelin and charts the impossible highs
and lows of life on the road with rock's most outrageous band.
Bring It On Home includes almost 100 new interviews with family
members, friends, musicians and rival managers, and walk-on parts
for Sharon Osbourne, Bob Dylan, Stanley Kubrick, Freddie Mercury,
Elizabeth Taylor, the FBI, the CIA, the Mafia - and Elvis Presley.
As Grant's son Warren says now: 'My dad knew everyone.' It is the
first biography to reveal the truth behind Led Zeppelin's demise,
Grant's subsequent fall from grace amid death threats and the
shadow of organised crime, and his final days as a man who shunned
the excesses of the music industry in favour of his friends and
family. With access to several previously unpublished interviews -
including Grant's last and most revealing yet - Bring It On Home
sheds new light on the story of rock's greatest manager and one of
the giants of modern music history.
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