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Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin and Beyond: The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager de Mark Blake

Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin and Beyond: The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager

Autor Mark Blake
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 oct 2019

Observăm încă de la primele pagini cum Mark Blake reușește să captureze esența unei epoci prin prisma unei figuri colosale: Peter Grant, omul din spatele succesului global Led Zeppelin. O scenă memorabilă, extrasă din corespondența inedită oferită de familie, ni-l înfățișează pe Grant nu doar ca pe managerul temut și combativ, ci ca pe un tată și soț care navighează prin haosul industriei muzicale a anilor '70. Suntem de părere că această perspectivă umană, dublată de accesul la fotografii și documente private, transformă biografia într-un document istoric prețios pentru orice pasionat de rock.

Simțim ritmul alert al textului, o experiență senzorială ce ne poartă din cluburile obscure din Soho până pe stadioanele imense din America. Calitatea producției acestui volum în format paperback este susținută de cele două secțiuni de ilustrații care oferă o ancoră vizuală necesară într-o poveste plină de excese și figuri legendare. Ca și When Giants Walked the Earth de Mick Wall, această lucrare pune în valoare istoria tumultuoasă a trupei, dar cu un accent distinct pe mecanismele de putere și management care au făcut posibil fenomenul Led Zeppelin.

În contextul operei sale, Bring It On Home continuă tradiția documentării riguroase începută de Mark Blake în Pigs Might Fly sau Comfortably Numb. Dacă în lucrările anterioare se concentra pe dinamica internă a Pink Floyd, aici autorul explorează figura managerului ca arhitect al succesului. Apreciem felul în care Blake integrează mărturiile unor personalități precum Bob Dylan sau Stanley Kubrick, oferind o imagine panoramică a culturii pop din secolul XX.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472126900
ISBN-10: 1472126904
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 2x 8pp plate sections
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Constable
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care doresc să înțeleagă nu doar muzica, ci și mașinăria din spatele rock-ului clasic. Cititorul câștigă acces la 'bucătăria' internă a Led Zeppelin printr-o biografie autorizată, dar necenzurată. Este o lectură esențială pentru a descoperi cum Peter Grant a redefinit managementul artistic, transformându-l dintr-o funcție administrativă într-o forță de protecție absolută pentru artiști.

Despre autor

Mark Blake este un jurnalist muzical de renume, colaborator de lungă durată al publicațiilor Q și Mojo, cu articole publicate în The Times și Rolling Stone. Expertiza sa în istoria rock-ului este demonstrată prin biografiile de succes dedicate trupelor Pink Floyd și The Who. În Bring It On Home, Blake își folosește talentul narativ și rigoarea de cercetător pentru a oferi cea mai completă imagine a lui Peter Grant, beneficiind de un acces fără precedent la arhiva personală a familiei acestuia.

Descriere

A SUNDAY TIMES POP BOOK OF THE YEAR

A DAILY TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR

A DAILY MAIL MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR

A TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR ('Of the many Led Zeppelin biographies marking the band's 50th anniversary, this is the most illuminating')

OBSERVER BEST BOOKS OF 2018

'An enthralling and rigorously researched book' Sunday Times

'Blake has talked to everyone, and the stories are both lurid and melancholy' Mail on Sunday

'A juicy saga of excess all areas, Mark Blake's biography of Led Zeppelin's notoriously combative manager, Peter Grant, reads at times like an all-you-can-eat buffet of guilty pleasures . . . a riotous roller coaster' The Times

'A tale as expansive and complex as the man himself' Mojo

'To say Bring It On Home is a rambunctious page-turner is an understatement; but despite all the violence and weirdness, you can't help liking the "real" Peter Grant who emerges here' Planet Rock

The late Peter Grant managed Led Zeppelin to global stardom. But his life story was every bit as extraordinary and dramatic as the musicians he looked after. For the first time ever, the Grant family have allowed an author access to previously unseen correspondence and photographs to help build the most complete and revealing story yet of a man who was a pioneer of rock music management, but also a son, a husband and a father.

Published to coincide with Led Zeppelin's 50th anniversary, Bring It On Home charts Peter Grant's rise from wartime poverty through his time as a nightclub doorman, wrestler and bit-part actor to the birth of rock'n'roll in the 1950s. From here, it explores his pivotal role in the formation of Led Zeppelin and charts the impossible highs and lows of life on the road with rock's most outrageous band.

Bring It On Home includes almost 100 new interviews with family members, friends, musicians and rival managers, and walk-on parts for Sharon Osbourne, Bob Dylan, Stanley Kubrick, Freddie Mercury, Elizabeth Taylor, the FBI, the CIA, the Mafia - and Elvis Presley. As Grant's son Warren says now: 'My dad knew everyone.'

It is the first biography to reveal the truth behind Led Zeppelin's demise, Grant's subsequent fall from grace amid death threats and the shadow of organised crime, and his final days as a man who shunned the excesses of the music industry in favour of his friends and family.

With access to several previously unpublished interviews - including Grant's last and most revealing yet - Bring It On Home sheds new light on the story of rock's greatest manager and one of the giants of modern music history.

Recenzii

It's tempting to dismiss Grant as a supremely unappetising figure, so it is a credit to this enthralling and rigorously researched book that we get a sufficiently three-dimensional portrait to be able to understand what drove him
A juicy saga of excess all areas, Mark Blake's biography of Led Zeppelin's notoriously combative manager, Peter Grant, reads at times like an all-you-can-eat buffet of guilty pleasures . . . a riotous rollercoaster ride full of larger-than-life characters . . . the first authorised in-depth portrait . . . an entertaining journey into a lost epoch of unchecked superstar excess
Exhaustive and detailed resume . . . the detail is priceless . . . Blake has talked to everyone, and the stories are both lurid and melancholy
Meticulous always entertaining . . . never shies away from its subject's belligerent reputation . . . Naturally, this is a book about Zeppelin as well as Grant, but their story, as told through a Peter Grant-shaped lens, is magnified and augmented . . . A tale as expansive and complex as the man himself
The incredible inside story of Led Zeppelin's fabled hardman manager . . . forensically-researched . . . the volume of other new stories unearthed here is impressive . . . To say Bring It On Home is a rambunctious page-turner is an understatement; but despite all the violence and weirdness, you can't help liking the 'real' Peter Grant who emerges here
Grimly entertaining . . . richly anecdotal . . . insight into a thankfully lost world
Glimpses of this former wrestler and doorman's life have made him a legend, but this is the first time it has been revealed in depth. With a wealth of unseen pics and detail, Bring It On Home is like Grant himself - awesome
In this entertaining, sympathetic biography, music journalist Mark Blake . . . provides a fresh perspective on the Zeppelin story
Of the many Led Zeppelin biographies marking the band's 50th anniversary, this is the most illuminating
[Grant] is captured vividly by Mark Blake, who paints a compelling, warts-and-all portrait of a figure who was as much a gangster as a Svengali, equal parts visionary and monster
Well-researched . . . at once amusing, candid, guarded, vague, clever and occasionally contradictory . . . Blake has written a pleasantly humane portrayal of a much-mythologised man
Shed[s] new light on how excess and tragedy tore this amazing band apart
'Naturally, this is a book about Zeppelin as well as Grant, but their story, as told through a Peter Grant-shaped lens, is magnified and augmented . . . A tale as expansive and complex as the man itself' Mojo

The late Peter Grant managed Led Zeppelin to global stardom. But his life story was every bit as extraordinary and dramatic as the musicians he looked after. For the first time, the Grant family have allowed an author access to previously unpublished interviews, correspondence and photographs to help build the most complete and revealing story yet of a man who was a pioneer of rock music management, but also a son, a husband and a father.

Bring It On Home charts Peter Grant's rise from wartime poverty through his time as a nightclub doorman, wrestler and bit-part actor to the birth of rock'n'roll in the 1950s. From here, it explores his pivotal role in the formation of Led Zeppelin and charts the impossible highs and lows of life on the road with rock's most outrageous band. There are walk-on parts for Sharon Osbourne, Bob Dylan, Stanley Kubrick, Freddie Mercury, Elizabeth Taylor, the FBI, the CIA, the Mafia and Elvis Presley.

The first biography to reveal the truth behind Led Zeppelin's demise and Grant's subsequent fall from grace, Bring It On Home sheds new light on the story of rock's greatest manager and one of the giants of the modern music history.

'Forensically researched' Planet Rock

'Grimly entertaining' Q