Bring It On Home by Mark Blake - ISBN: 9781472126900
Paperback
Led Zeppelin’s manager: Excess, power, demise, and the truth revealed.

Bring It On Home

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

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    9 October 2019

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Summary

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 ar…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472126900
ISBN-10:1472126904
Author:Mark Blake
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Constable
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:9 October 2019
Weight:220g
Dimensions:198mm x 126mm x 24mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

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 * Sunday Times *
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 * The Times *
Exhaustive and detailed resume … the detail is priceless … Blake has talked to everyone, and the stories are both lurid and melancholy * Mail on Sunday *
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 – James McNair * Mojo *
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 * Planet Rock *
Grimly entertaining … richly anecdotal … insight into a thankfully lost world * Q magazine *
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 * Weekend Sport *
In this entertaining, sympathetic biography, music journalist Mark Blake … provides a fresh perspective on the Zeppelin story * Observer *
Of the many Led Zeppelin biographies marking the band’s 50th anniversary, this is the most illuminating – Will Hodgkinson * The Times *
[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 – Dan Cairns * Sunday Times *
Well-researched … at once amusing, candid, guarded, vague, clever and occasionally contradictory … Blake has written a pleasantly humane portrayal of a much-mythologised man – John Perry * Record Collector *
Shed[s] new light on how excess and tragedy tore this amazing band apart * The Sun *

About The Author

Mark Blake

Mark Blake is a long-time contributor to Q and Mojo, and has also been published in The Times, Classic Rock, Daily Telegraph and Rolling Stone. He is the author of three previous books, including the bestselling Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd.

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