Led Zeppelin: The Biography - Unabridged Audiobook

Rock star. Whatever that term means to you, chances are it owes a debt to Led Zeppelin. No one before or since has lived the dream quite like Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham. In Led Zeppelin, Bob Spitz takes their full measure, separating the myth from the reality with his trademark connoisseurship and storytelling flair.

From the opening notes of their first album, the band announced itself as something different, a collision of grand artistic ambition and brute primal force, of English folk music and African American blues. That record sold more than 10 million copies, and it was just the beginning; Led Zeppelin's albums have sold more than 300 million certified copies worldwide, and the dust has never settled.

The band is notoriously guarded, and previous books provided more heat than light. But Spitz's authority is undeniable and irresistible. His feel for the atmosphere, the context - the music, the business, the recording studios, the touring life, the whole ecosystem of popular music - is unparalleled. His account of the melding of Page and Jones, the virtuosic London sophisticates, with Plant and Bonham, the wild men from the Midlands, in a scene dominated by the Beatles and the Stones but changing fast, is in itself a revelation. Spitz takes the music seriously and brings the band's artistic journey to full and vivid life.

The music, however, is only part of the legend: Led Zeppelin is also the story of how the '60s became the '70s, of how playing clubs became playing stadiums, of how innocence became decadence. Led Zeppelin wasn't the first rock band to let loose on the road, but as with everything else, they took it to an entirely new level. Not all the legends are true, but in Spitz's careful accounting, what is true is astonishing and sometimes disturbing.

Led Zeppelin gave no quarter, and neither has Bob Spitz. Led Zeppelin is the full and honest reckoning the band has long awaited and richly deserves.

Led Zeppelin: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6jqyuqrEf9H6lbT4PmDy55M

Led Zeppelin - Evolution - Bootleg Compilation (15xCD) - Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6j907Njs2fe55hj06obdKrX

1969: https://youtu.be/r176MMv28Po
1971: https://youtu.be/rNXx3dnHOug
1973: https://youtu.be/ptBH0apFuak
1975: https://youtu.be/ZjwpAZ_8lqE
1977: https://youtu.be/NRlqZ7eWLz0
1980: https://youtu.be/9yDkDRYfO8I

The Doors: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6giZXpZfQZW-DTbpJWBwXdL

The Doors - Felt Forum Concerts Party - Bootleg Boxset (6xCD)
January 17th, 1970, 1st Show: Disc 1: https://youtu.be/mtocUGRgXEY
January 17th, 1970, 2nd Show: Discs 2/3: https://youtu.be/FMJbqzDy_Y4
January 18th, 1970, 1st Show: Disc 4: https://youtu.be/6yVwfKiRRZU

The Doors Live - July 21st, 1969: https://youtu.be/FY4jdovOEbo
The Doors Live - July 21st, 1969 (2nd Show): https://youtu.be/CTqguvMoG2M
The Doors Live - May 8th, 1970: https://youtu.be/_pcasto7mes

The Doors - Live in Europe '68 (1xDVD): https://youtu.be/oapS8Ac47XM

The Doors - 58 Rare Tracks - HD Audio (D2/D3): https://youtu.be/klQa7DeLBok

The Doors - Full Studio Collection: https://youtu.be/H0_-zBxHbbk

Eric Clapton:
Box Sets: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6j7TdE4lpJWjx1ouX-aRVE6

Jeff Beck
Beckology Box Set: https://youtu.be/sZ6G_LNPolk

Stevie Ray Vaughan: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6huEPgrcS_43ii8nuZWGqoC

Pearl Jam/Eddie Vedder:
Eddie Vedder: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6hM9JuGyI1y7G6obtF7fDhp

Pearl Jam: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6jE6c7FStxxoyR2TxSOjddm

Pearl Jam Bootlegs (CD): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6grH-Z7ea8w5NwJKPJ8NBGt

The Best of Pearl Jam Live - 2022 - Vol. 1: https://youtu.be/2v7ozLGuwBw
The Best of Pearl Jam Live - 2022 - Vol. 2: https://youtu.be/bJMSi9k0pw4
The Best of Pearl Jam Live - 2022 - Vol. 3: https://youtu.be/7EBFFOd2dRo
Pearl Jam - Greatest Hits - The "Up Side" - Vol. 1: https://youtu.be/1z5XWZ5yzgU
Pearl Jam - Greatest Hits - The "Down Side"- Vol. 2: https://youtu.be/AyuTmo_XHzw

Jack White - Live: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6gLSn-KEwzF_ZXxGMQj_tro

The White Stripes:
Live: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6iJgQGGS1g4Mc9468sMLgFC

Under Blackpool Lights: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL91B34621D839C34E

Great Northern Lights (Full/1-7): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6iJ7sKYXh_dvnelW92tdgO_

Jack Johnson: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6ia16sklqKuKFrxfZ6HURlA

BoDeans - Homebrewed: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB8DB0AC6BF54499C

Queensrÿche - Operation: Livecrime: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6h-FeYLA2ppw691jLICyA78

Pink Floyd - The Massed Gadgets of Hercules [Bootleg Box Set]
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6gn7Xhk_xFcRXhomrxkw17N

1970: https://youtu.be/cK0vjFKVIsQ
1971: https://youtu.be/WwCKSGvOH14
1972: https://youtu.be/mVgEvewS50E
1973: https://youtu.be/NWQJW_VXKDo
1974: https://youtu.be/ad7ndNVIpN4

Roger Waters - The Wall Live in Berlin: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1364044A82C6C895

The Wall - A-Side: https://youtu.be/FneEK6pbLGg
The Wall - B-Side: https://youtu.be/CuevCiKgGnw
The Wall - C-Side: https://youtu.be/zF0TqzYn4HU
The Wall - D-Side: https://youtu.be/muM4w6_LTm0
The Wall - Full: https://youtu.be/cxudc2XOiBY
The Wall Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6jBAxxhKBaRVYYU2lfP9FOk

Live in Pompeii 1972 (Full Theatrical Release): https://youtu.be/zq2Yu5QIWro

Dark Side of the Moon - A-Side : https://youtu.be/PCK0c8O12Po
Dark Side of the Moon - B-Side: https://youtu.be/miQ9uAS18_M

Wish You Were Here - A-Side: https://youtu.be/Dcoe_qlilcM
Wish You Were Here - B-Side: https://youtu.be/09OA2zLxCB8

Animals - A-Side: https://youtu.be/P12Sf7ou0BQ
Animals - B-Side: https://youtu.be/szW1SH7T_UQ

Pink Floyd Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgL-nm6HDO6gk-zHNFsZsRyUdv5IqDR3i

21 Pink Floyd Instrumental Renditions: https://youtu.be/_vk0z_vQDiM
Symphonic Pink Floyd: https://youtu.be/qyAx4GjPE5M

The Allman Brothers Band - Dreams Box Set - D1/D2: https://youtu.be/YnP-dMmtLX8
The Allman Brothers Band - Dreams Box Set - D3/D4: https://youtu.be/OkOF5jNewj4