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Fyfe dissects the development of Led Zeppelin's fourth album, officially untitled but variously known as "Led Zeppelin IV," "Zoso," "Untitled," and "Four Symbols/Four Runes" but most comprehensibly identified to nonfans as "The Stairway Album" (for its big hit, "Stairway to Heaven") with astonishing enthusiasm. Long ago and far away, the godfathers of heavy metal's musical peers and the press pooh-poohed them, "even though they had managed to turn rock music on its head." At rope's end, they responded with "a blueprint of such far-reaching consequence that it would inform all R & B-based music to follow," a phenomenally salesworthy platter that, besides the song rockers fanatically love or hate (i.e., the aforementioned "Stairway"), contains Cadillac's current ad jingle, "Rock and Roll." Readers who revel in the Zep will almost certainly love Fyfe's maniacally detailed celebration. The less enthusiastic may be entertained by its unintentionally Spinal-Tap pish vignettes. Mike Tribby
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"A thoroughly researched retelling of a good story, with no hypothesizing waffle and all of the good anecdotes."
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Fyfe dissects the development of Led Zeppelin's fourth album, officially untitled but variously known as "Led Zeppelin IV," "Zoso," "Untitled," and "Four Symbols/Four Runes" but most comprehensibly identified to nonfans as "The Stairway Album" (for its big hit, "Stairway to Heaven") with astonishing enthusiasm. Long ago and far away, the godfathers of heavy metal's musical peers and the press pooh-poohed them, "even though they had managed to turn rock music on its head." At rope's end, they responded with "a blueprint of such far-reaching consequence that it would inform all R & B-based music to follow," a phenomenally salesworthy platter that, besides the song rockers fanatically love or hate (i.e., the aforementioned "Stairway"), contains Cadillac's current ad jingle, "Rock and Roll." Readers who revel in the Zep will almost certainly love Fyfe's maniacally detailed celebration. The less enthusiastic may be entertained by its unintentionally Spinal-Tap pish vignettes. Mike Tribby
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Blender
"A thoroughly researched retelling of a good story, with no hypothesizing waffle and all of the good anecdotes."
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