Led Zeppelin: The Press Reports
In this book you may notice a definite bias towards the weekly British music papers. This proved to be inescapable. During the era 1968-1980 there were very few weekly periodicals in the United States that concerned themselves with rock music. Rolling Stone is the obvious candidate, but for whatever reason it’s editors chose to barely acknowledge that the band even existed until 1975. In many of the conventional daily papers of the USA, if the band was mentioned it was often in an off-the-wire reprint of articles from Melody Maker or New Musical Express. Glossy magazines like Circus and Creem infrequently revealed anything new about the band, concentrating mainly on the pictures rather than the news. In Australia the magazines like Go-Set also reprinted articles from the British weeklies and so the core of the information comes from New Musical Express, Disc & Music Echo, Melody Maker, Sounds, and Record Mirror all of which originated in London England.There are no doubt numerous articles out there which were not exhumed. Many of them are probably important and relevant, but please note that this is not just the positive critiques. Basically  everything that was found was included. This revealed one quite remarkable detail. In many histories written about Led Zeppelin and indeed in many interviews with the band there are an abundance of references to how cruelly they were treated by the media. There are in fact so many references to this unjust bias that it has become a truism. However, when you start to actually examine the evidence, as presented in this book, you will find that for the most part the press were quite generous. For every slagging there seems to have been numerous articles extolling the band.