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Led Zeppelin live dreams: A photographer's visual history of the Led Zeppelin live experience, 1972-1977

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This excellent 208-pg. hardback coffee-table book describes in words and in pictures the live shows and road trips of one of the greatest rock bands ever, Led Zeppelin. The book chronicles Led Zeppelin's peak touring years, from 1972-1977. Most of the book is filled with pictures of members of the band, playing live. There is also a fairly detailed description of Led Zeppelin on and off of the stage. I really enjoyed the vivid detail of the pictures and the biographical information, and so would you, whether you own every Led Zeppelin album or have never heard of Jimmy Page. There is simply no better way to relive all the glorious moments of Led Zeppelin's electrifying career than with this book!!

I love this book, BUT it is definantly only for the Zeppelin fanatic. A lot of the pictures included in this book can be found in some of the less pricey books. If you need it soon find another book. It took almost 18 week for me to get my copy. "Live Dreams" is a beautiful book with pristine pictures and stories that you can only find here. It has some one of a kind pictures and a detailed cover that makes this book feel like a treasure. If you truely LOVE Led Zeppelin than this book is worth the extra money and waiting.

This book boasts from great production, and it certainly has some wonderful color pictures in it. But it's missing one crucial piece: a fair representation of John Bonham. Toward the beginning of the book there's two page isolation on each member, the left page being the member's name (Page, Plant, or Jones) with a saying about him, and the right page being a big color shot of him. Bonzo's conspicuously missing from this part of the book, and it irked me. My theory is that this author (Mr. Ranter) got irritated by Bonzo sometime in the 70's when he, Plant, and Ratner were looking at some of his pix. Bonzo, according to this book, essentially said the pictures were beautiful, but where were the shots of him??!! This apparently had a lasting impact on Ratner, possibly insulting him, so he snubbed Bonzo a little by not including him in that beginning spotlight portion of the book. There are, believe it or not, even some out-of-focus pictures in this book. For me, "Photographers Led Zeppelin" is the book to own if you can get it. If you can only get "Live Dreams," it's better than not having it, I guess.

One of THE BEST photo-biography's of Led Zeppelin on the market..Neal Preston has the other one..This book is well worth the buy..extremely well made presentation..

When I first got the book and open it there was Jimmy, then Robert, then Jones, then, where the heck is Bonzo!! I purchased this used so I thought the previous owner took out some pages. So I look to see if there was a page missing and I could not find anything. So I read some other reviews and no there is no Bonzo. Lame!!!! Even the rest of the group said there is no Led Zeppelin without Bonzo. If I would have paid full price for this book, I would have been sending it back. Makes no sense!! Paid under $20 including shipping so can't complain to much, but still, give me a break!!!

I found this book to be over produced and lack of format. Although there was some interesting reading, I feel this book could have had alot better information in it for the price, plus the way it was written didn't make a whole lotta sense. Yes, there are some excellent pictures, but many of them weren't all that exciting. I do not recommend this book, as it is hardly anything but a collector's item.

I THOUGHT WHEN I BOUGHT MY COPY OF LIVE DREAMS THAT THERE WAS ONLY 2000 COPIES AMERICAN MADE I TALKED WHITH SOMEONE THERE AT THE OFFICE ABOUT HOW I GOT ROBERTS AND JIMMYS AUTOGRAPHS AND WITH LUCK OCT 23 JOHN PAUL JONES IS PLAYING AT THE OGDEN THEATER IN COLORADO DO YOU KNOW OF ANY WAY YOU CAN HELP ME GET THAT SINGTURE .ALSO I HAVE BOOK #635 JUST LOOKING FOR THAT LAST POSSIBLE AUTOGRAPH ANYWAY THANK YOU FOR ANY SUGESTIONS.