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Table of Contents
Foreword: Light and Shade
Acknowledgments
Introduction: I Never Did Quite Understand
1. The Mystery of the Quotient: Led Zeppelin Quick FAQ
2. All Will Be Revealed: The Led Zeppelin Basics
3. To You I Give This Tune: Led Zeppelin’s Ten Best, Worst, and Most Overlooked Songs
4. Back to Schoolin’: The Roots of Led Zeppelin
5. I’m Gonna Join the Band: The Formation of Led Zeppelin
6. When the Guitars Play: Led Zeppelin’s Key Musical Instruments
7. Wonders What It’s All About: Led Zeppelin Songs That Reference Real People, Places, or Events
8. Sounds Caressed My Ear: Led Zeppelin Music Trivia I
9. Sitting Round Singing Songs: Led Zeppelin Music Trivia II
10. To Build a Dream: Other Musicians Featured in Led Zeppelin’s Music
11. Are We Rolling? Led Zeppelin in the Studio
12. Secrets of the Sorcerer: Jimmy Page’s Guitar Heroism
13. They Carry News That Must Get Through: Led Zeppelin Live
14. How the West Was Won: Led Zeppelin Around the World
15. If You Can Clarify, Please Do: Led Zeppelin’s Lurid Lifestyle
16. Mama It Ain’t No Sin: Led Zeppelin and Groupies
17. Love Some Other Man Too: Led Zeppelin as Song Swipers
18. Steal Away: Other Musicians’ Borrowing from Led Zeppelin
19. Lots of People Talkin’, Few of Them Know: Led Zeppelin and the Occult
20. It’s Not as Hard as It Seems: The Art of Led Zeppelin
21. The Story Was Quite Clear: Led Zeppelin in Literature and Film
22. And It Makes Me Wonder: Led Zeppelin’s Greatest Song
23. I Got Something I Think You Oughta Know: Led Zeppelin Behind the Scenes
24. These Things Are Clear to All: Led Zeppelin and Their Peers
25. Presence: Led Zeppelin Then and Now
26. Thinking How It Used to Be: Zeppelin After Zeppelin
27. But in the Long Run: Led Zeppelin in Overview
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