Mick WallWhen Giants Walked the Earth: 50 years of Led Zeppelin. The fully revised and up

This is one of the greatest books! Always loved Led Zepplin

Another birthday gift... Yes, they were very happy 😁👍

A fascinating book charting the whole of the bands time from formation to the end. If you were a fan of Zeppelin this is for you.

I love love love Led Zepplin. I mean I can't love it enough. If you love he band you'l love it even more after reading the book. It is written in great detail and let's you get up close and personal with the members of the band. Worth EVERY bit of money you pay for it. It is a MUST have for a fan.

It's a big improvement on Hammer of the Gods, and everywhere is calling this the "definitive biography". It boasts thorough research, in depth knowledge both personal and research-based, good writing, and a fantastic book jacket. I would have given it five stars if it were not for the following two problems.Issue One is the italicized second-person detours that are meant to take you "into the head" of various members of Led Zeppelin, Peter Grant, and associates. This awkward literary device is an overly forced way of trying to get you to imagine what it must have been like to have been, say, a young flaxen-haired hippie lad from the Black Country who gets the opportunity of a lifetime.Issue Two is a sometimes laughably credulous attitude towards the teachings of Aleister Crowley and the O.T.O., which Wall describes at one point as a "great world religion." Now, I'm not saying anything about whether the great world religions are more or less bonkers than O.T.O., but I would hesitate to classify the O.T.O. in such a manner. Why is it necessary to devote so many pages to this topic?Whatever the reason for the massive word count given over to this topic, all I know is that I often longed to get back to the story of the band and its music and got pretty bloody sick of seeing magic capitalized and spelled with a "K".