Official mini-documentary on the making of the new 180 Gram vinyl boxsets for Led Zeppelin: Mothership and The Song Remains the Same. Really freaking cool! I bought both these recently, and everything is amazingly crafted from the thick stock for the sleeves to the beautiful booklets and astounding 180 Gram vinyl goodness!
KnuckleBonz has unveiled a limited-edition sculpture of Jimmy Page depicted just as he appeared on stage in Chicago in 1977. The Jimmy Page II ‘Stormtrooper’ Rock Iconz figure is a fully licensed, limited edition collectible. The figure is hand-painted and numbered and comes with a certificate of authenticity. This sculpture is licensed and personally approved by Jimmy Page.
The ‘Stormtrooper’ is the second sculpture of Jimmy Page created in a limited edition by KnuckleBonz. The first figure was released in 2007 and featured Page in his white “poppy” dragon suit and violin bow held high overhead.
Pricing and availability: The Jimmy Page II ‘Stormtrooper’ Rock Iconz is expected to ship in November 2008. The figure stands nine inches tall on top a wooden display base. This is a limited edition created by KnuckleBonz; there are only 3,000 available worldwide.
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Orion Books has set an October 16 UK release date for author Mick Wall’s ‘When Giants Walked The Earth: A Biography Of Led Zeppelin’. A description of the 400-page hardcover book reads as follows:
“Forty years since their formation in a grubby Chinatown basement comes the first truly definitive biography of the world’s most legendary rock band � Led Zeppelin.
“They were ‘the last great band of the sixties; the first great band of the seventies’; they rose, somewhat unpromisingly, from the ashes of THE YARDBIRDS to become one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time.
“Mick Wall, respected rock writer and former confidant of both Page and Plant, unflinchingly tells the story of the band that wrote the rulebook for on-the-road excess and eventually paid the price for it, with disaster, drug addiction and death. ‘When Giants Walked the Earth’ reveals for the first time the true extent of band leader Jimmy Page’s longstanding interest in the occult, and goes behind the scenes to expose the truth behind their much-hyped yet spectacularly contrived comeback at London’s O2 arena last year, and how Jimmy Page plans to bring the band back permanently if only his former protege, now part-time nemesis, Robert Plant will allow him to. And Wall also recounts, in a series of flashbacks, the life stories of the five individuals that made the dream of Led Zeppelin into an even more incredible and hard-to-swallow reality: Page, Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and their infamous manager, Peter Grant.
“Above all, a book that tells the full, shocking story of Led Zeppelin from the inside, written by someone who has known Jimmy Page for over twenty years, ‘When Giants Walked the Earth’ is the culmination of several years research. It is based not just on the individual interviews with every member of the band that author Mick Wall has conducted over the years – as well as those who knew and worked with them – but on the insight that only thirty years working in the music business alongside its biggest artists can bring.”
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