When the Levee Breaks: The Making of <I>Led Zeppelin IV</I> (The Vinyl Frontier series)

Rating:
Summary: Good book for LZ fans
Review: Loads of trivia packed in this lil' book.
Gives complete bio's of the players and reviews each song on the record in detail. Covers the ways and means of each recording as well. No footnotes but has a bibliography.
Made me break out that cd one more time.

Rating:
Summary: Good book for LZ fans
Review: Loads of trivia packed in this lil' book.
Gives complete bio's of the players and reviews each song on the record in detail. Covers the ways and means of each recording as well. No footnotes but has a bibliography.
Made me break out that cd one more time.

Rating:
Summary: NOT PARTICULARLY ESSENTIAL
Review: The book isn't only about Led Zep IV - it provides a general history of the band and many of the author's own interpretations. It's arguable - very arguable - if anyone would agree that the title of the book "When the Levee Breaks" is the most essential rock track ever recorded after Stairway to Heaven...highly debatable! If you've read "Hammer of the Gods" or other Zep texts - this will seem somewhat superfluous. No real new observations. The portion on the making of Zep IV is good - but really wouldn't fill up a book. More like an article...

Rating:
Summary: NOT PARTICULARLY ESSENTIAL
Review: The book isn't only about Led Zep IV - it provides a general history of the band and many of the author's own interpretations. It's arguable - very arguable - if anyone would agree that the title of the book "When the Levee Breaks" is the most essential rock track ever recorded after Stairway to Heaven...highly debatable! If you've read "Hammer of the Gods" or other Zep texts - this will seem somewhat superfluous. No real new observations. The portion on the making of Zep IV is good - but really wouldn't fill up a book. More like an article...

Rating:
Summary: Repetitious but informative
Review: This book would have been a lot more enjoyable if Fyfe didn't repeat himself endlessly. It read like the half-baked essay of a so-so college sophomore.

Some of the information was interesting however, and I did appreciate Fyfe's ability to contextualize the events of Led Zep's existence in the world of music and otherwise. He clearly knows a lot about the music industry.