Lansdowne Books has launched a pre-order for Richard Morton Jack‘s new guide, “Led Zeppelin: The Solely Method To Fly”, for supply in September.
The product of years of analysis, this huge guide accommodates essentially the most detailed and correct account but of the pathway to LED ZEPPELIN‘s formation and the occasions of their tumultuous first yr. Alongside it’s a wealth of uncommon materials regarding the members’ earlier careers, and reproductions of nearly every bit of press they obtained between getting collectively in August 1968 and the discharge of “Led Zeppelin II” in October 1969.
Bulging with barely seen archival data and imagery, and that includes a protracted introduction by the famend music journalist Chris Welch — who knew them from the beginning, toured with them and visited them at house — it’s merely important for his or her many admirers.
The 348-page “Led Zeppelin: The Solely Method To Fly” shall be made out there as a limited-edition large-format hardback, quarter-bound in material.
The primary 250 pre-orders of the guide will obtain an unique poster.
Richard Morton Jack is the editor of the music reference books “Galactic Ramble” and “Infinite Journey”, and the creator of “Psychedelia: 101 Iconic Underground Rock Albums 1966-70”. He based Sunbeam Data, which has reissued over 100 rock, jazz and people albums, and edits the rock historical past journal Flashback. He’s the co-founder of the music market and archive elvinyl.com.
My new restricted version guide, LED ZEPPELIN: THE ONLY WAY TO FLY, is printed by Lansdowne subsequent month and will be…
Posted by Richard Morton Jack on Friday, August 8, 2025