ROUGH GUIDE ТО LED ZEPPELIN
NigeI WiIliamson
Rough Guides/Pengiun Everything you knew before. Don't expect this Rough Guide to offer any amazing insight into the life and times of one of the true giants in our world, because it doesn't give any. What you get is the Zeppelin story re-told, the band's music re-reviewed, and а lot of the myths that surround them reanalysed.
But no grandiose claims are made as to what this book's а11 about; in fact, what this series of books is about. 1t serves as both an introduction to а rock icon, and also а handy way of accessing particular info.
Well-written, and set out in
an easy style, it's а cohesive...well, rough guide, and does what it says on the cover.
Malcolm Dome
BRUCE DICKINSON: FLASHING METAL WITH IRON MAIDEN AND FLYING SOLO
Joe Shooman
Independent Music Press
The human air-raid siren's life laid bare... ish.
This first,unofficial,biography of Iron Maiden's ubiquitous and multi-talented
lead singer is creditably researched and dosed with sympathy and affection. Shooman has grilled schoolpals, band-mates past and present (although none of Maiden's major players), producers, publicists, friends and fellow music writers. However, one crucial ingredient is conspicuous by its absence: original comment from the book's fencing, broadcasting, military historian and author, commercial airline pilot-cum-frontman subject.
As an example of cut-andpaste journalism it's above par, although there are some
