To what extent you have “authored” a volume that chronologically anthologises existing articles, broadcasts and interviews is perhaps questionable. But Hank Bordowitz sifts and collates an admirably diverse range of Zeppelin musings here.
He begins at the end of 1968, not in the UK but in the States, where Go! magazine declared “Jimmy Page Is Wild About Led Zeppelin.”
Bordowitz prefaces and contextualises each successive piece, some fun, some weighty and some ponderous, the more so as the band’s fame proliferated. A series of Q&A “ask-ins” with the NME in 1970 reveals John Paul Jones a huge fan of Stevie Wonder; a 1976 radio interview by Alan “Fluff” Freeman with Jimmy Page is endearing and engaging.
Other sources range from Mojo to Billboard to Australian radio station 2SM to a Coverdale/Page promotional press kit, amid much for the devotee to bathe in./o:p
