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Led Zeppelin Unauthorised
by Stephen Davis (1985)

Probably won’t be of much interest to anyone unless a fan. Because even though I am, and even though Davis went beyond the usual grovel at Led Zeppelin classic “dinosaur” status, it is too mould-casting to be noteworthy. The story of the rise and fall is typical of any rock n’ roll group, but it still made me laugh, the typical, brainless Zeppelin’s vertigious debauchery and misogyny. Groupies, “shark episode” (which turns out to be red snapper apparently, according to Richard Cole), their hostile relations with the media, insults hurled by “punks” and New Wave kids, Faustian curse, etc. etc.