Jimmy Page: Magus, Musician, Man: An Unauthorized Biography
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (906 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1423404076 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Case has also contributed several articles to the social science journal Skeptic. George Case is a writer on ideas and popular culture, and an acknowledged authority on the band Led Zeppelin. Strangelove, and Arcadia Borealis: Childhood and Youth in Northern Ontario. He is the author of Jimmy Page: Magus, Musician, Man, Out of Our Heads: Rock n Roll Bef
While his enthusiasm sometimes overwhelms his writing ("The Teutonic implications of the airship's family surname invested a gothic sensibility to the ensemble's work"), Case successfully shows how Page and his Zeppelin's musical influence became "so broad and so established that even players who had never consciously emulated his techniques had been affected by them." (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . All rights reserved. In this unauthorized biography, freelance writer Case focuses on Page's music as much as he does on Zeppelin's lurid touring lifestyle, and he is good at reporting Page's early work playing on countless recording sessions (ranging from Tom Jones's "It's Not U
Jimmy Page: Magus Musician Man (an unauthorised biography) by Lynette McClenaghan Jimmy Page: Magus Musician Man (an unauthorised biography) by George CaseI am reassured by this being an “unauthorized” biography as it has not been impinged upon by the subject or his minders. Case has been scrupulous in his research and his presentation of Page as a musician and band leader. The “magus” in the subtitle is a bit misleading as there is not much about Page’s involvement with magick – the Crowley and Anger connectio. Here he is, perfecting his craft! J. Lavoie NOTE: I bought, read n' reviewed this book in 2014. I just re-read this book this past week and was not happy with my past review so I re-wrote this and deleted the prior review. This is June 3, 2016A book about a musical genius/icon, and his passion for whatever he was doing. His interest in music began from the melodies of our Black American Southern blues roots. He twisted them into rock n' roll beats, then played his masterpieces louder than any other band-- at . Bland and boring with nothing really new here I really was pretty eager to read this book. You hear so many things about Page that you figured he would be interesting on many levels, too bad the book didnt come through. You see the "unauthorized biography" thing and you expect to get all the details and controversies but instead you get nothing new at all. I feel like I know nothing more about the guy after reading the book. Its obvious why its so flawed because it is simply a rehash of pieced together intervie
Jimmy Page - Magus, Musician, Man is a meticulously researched life story of Led Zeppelin's legendary guitarist and producer. Swinging London, the Sunset Strip, Bron-yr-Aur, Kashmir, and Clarksdale: Magus, Musician, Man traverses through all of Page's hallowed stomping grounds and tells, at last, the complete story of one of rock 'n' roll's most enigmatic and influential talents.. From his childhood in war-torn Britain and his pivotal role in the recording studios that launched the British Invasion of the '60s to his milestone achievements, his dark, nefarious excesses with Led Zeppelin, and his emergence as a revered cultural icon and honored philanthropist, this biography - the first ever written about Jimmy Page - portrays all his spiritual, artistic, and personal dimensions