Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga

by Stephen Davis

Overview

The members of Led Zeppelin are major deities in the pantheon of rock gods. The first and heaviest of the heavy metal monsters, they violently shook the foundations of rock music and took no prisoners on the road. Their tours were legendary, their lives were exalted—and in an era well known for sex and drugs, the mighty Zeppelin set an unattainable standard of excess and mythos for any band that tried to follow them. They were power, they were fantasy, they were black magic. No band ever flew as high as Led Zeppelin or suffered so disastrous a fall. And only some of them lived to tell the tale.

Hammer of the Gods is the New York Times bestselling epic saga of the hard reign of Page, Plant, Jones, and Bonham—a spellbinding, electrifying, no-holds-barred classic of rock 'n' roll history that has now been updated to include the continuing adventures of the band.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061473081
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/08/2008
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	198,263
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.97(d)

About the Author

Stephen Davis is a rock journalist and biographer. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks, Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend, and Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith. He lives in Boston.

Table of Contents

Part 1
Overture     3
The Train Kept A-Rollin'     10
Zeppelin Rising     40
The Year of the Shark     67
Valhalla I Am Coming     107
The Secret Society     130
The Continental Riot House     154
Part 2
The Starship     179
An Angel with a Broken Wing     212
Nobody's Fault     230
Power, Mystery, and the Hammer of the Gods     267
In the Evening     289
Coda     307
"Led Zeppelin" Flies Again     324
Zeppelin in the Square of the Dead     337
A Led Zeppelin Bibliography     361
A Led Zeppelin Discography     371
Acknowledgments     377
Index     379

Editorial Reviews

Incredible.” — Village Voice

“One of the most notorious rock biographies ever written.” — Chicago Tribune

From the Publisher

Incredible.

Village Voice

One of the most notorious rock biographies ever written.

Chicago Tribune

One of the most notorious rock biographies ever written.

Chicago Tribune