Behind The Songs: Led Zeppelin: Stories 40 Classic Songs

For Led Zeppelin fans, rock lovers and musicians who want to know how the music was actually made. Four musicians. Forty songs. The stories behind some of the most extraordinary recordings in rock history. How did John Bonham create the colossal drum sound of "When the Levee Breaks"? How was "Stairway to Heaven" built into an eight-minute epic? What made the rhythms of "Black Dog" so unusual? Where did the majestic sound of "Kashmir" come from? And how did Jimmy Page use microphones, amplifiers, echo, unusual tunings and the acoustics of the rooms themselves to create records that still sound enormous more than fifty years later? BEHIND THE SONGS: LED ZEPPELIN - The Stories Behind 40 Classic Songs takes fans and musicians inside the music, tracing Led Zeppelin's extraordinary journey from the explosive sessions for their 1969 debut to their final recordings together a decade later. Song by song, discover the stories behind "Whole Lotta Love," "Immigrant Song," "Black Dog," "Rock and Roll," "The Battle of Evermore," "Stairway to Heaven," "When the Levee Breaks," "The Rain Song," "No Quarter," "Kashmir," "Achilles Last Stand," "Fool in the Rain," "All My Love" and many more. Go inside Olympic Studios, Bron-Yr-Aur and Headley Grange. Discover Jimmy Page's revolutionary production techniques and guitar sounds; John Bonham's remarkable drumming; John Paul Jones's bass lines, keyboards and arrangements; and Robert Plant's development as both singer and lyricist. The book also tackles the more complicated history behind the music-the blues and folk songs that influenced the band, disputed songwriting credits, the origins of "Dazed and Confused" and "Whole Lotta Love," and the long-running controversy surrounding "Stairway to Heaven." Whether you are a lifelong Zeppelin fan, a guitarist, drummer, bassist, singer, songwriter, producer-or simply someone who has ever wondered how those records came to sound the way they do-this book will send you back to familiar songs hearing things you never noticed before.