A new version of author Mick Wall’s 2008 Led Zeppelin biography “When Giants Walked the Earth” will be published later this year.
Music publishing business White Rabbit will publish a new version of the book as part of its Deep Cuts series on December 3.
The new version of the book will include a new foreword by Lenny Kaye. This version is “the fully updated edition of Mick Wall’s definitive biography of Led Zeppelin,” the publisher states on its website.
An expanded and updated version of the book was published in 2018 to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Led Zeppelin.
Wall has claimed that Page threatened to sue over the contents of the book.
“Wall’s just writing a book designed to cash in on something he didn’t have anything to do with. He wasn’t a creative force in Led Zep,” Page told The Times in 2010. “I’m at something of a disadvantage because I haven’t chosen to read that book, but I hear it’s totally distorted from people who do know about Led Zeppelin.”
They should put that quote from Jimmy on the back of the book…
I have a copy of the original sitting unread. His other book on Black Sabbath was a difficult read. If I run out of reading material one day I may read it. I might also read Ulysses!
Sad how ex employees or friends of the band try to cash in on Led Zeppelin. Mic Wall is pathetic!
I love reading any & everything about LZ, I have been a fan for 50 yrs.+. Also this comment from JP is 16!yrs.old.
excellent book on zep by mr wall a well balance account on the zep story along with hammer of the gods the two best ever books on the band and aftermath post 1980