New Led Zeppelin Book Charts 75 Tour
Unofficial biography claims that the band\'s 75 tour was the \"beginning of the end\"
A new book from unofficial Zeppelin biographer Stephen Davis is to chart the band’s 1975 tour.
Davis wrote the famous Hammer Of The Gods in 1985, which for a long time was regarded as the best Zeppelin biography, if a little on the sensational side. However, he’s now gone back into the world of Zeppelin to specifically explore the band’s 1975 tour which he regards as the beginning of their end.
"I realized there was a different kind of story to be told about Led Zeppelin that was worlds away from the fan boy obsessive stuff," he tells Rolling Stone. "I wanted to write about all the night's that Richard Cole didn't ride the Harley down the hall of the Riot House and all the nights that Bonzo didn't destroy all of the 11th floor."
LZ-'75 is out now and, says Davis, it outlines the start of Led Zeppelin’s decline.
"Plant had a secret vocal chord operation after the 1973 tour and afterwards he wasn't quite the same," he says in his interview with Rolling Stone. "The 1977 tour was a disaster with a lot of violence and drugs. After that John Paul Jones took over and the 1979 and 1980 tours were like a senior citizen's Led Zeppelin."