Jimmy page book biography of leonard

I must admit that my most commercially successful book to date owes its popularity to the subject – a legendary rock star who’d long been an enigma to fans – more than the author.  In 2005 I had been shopping around a general overview of the classic rock genre for some time, but a Canadian literary agent I approached with my proposal offered me an opportunity to write something else for Hal Leonard, a US publishing house specializing in music.  An unauthorized biography of Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page?  A personal hero and influence on my amateur guitar playing since my teens?  For actual money?  Houses of the Holy Shit yeah!

The resultant work, Jimmy Page:  Magus, Musician, Man, was a strong seller in hardcover upon release in 2007, leading to a revised and updated paperback edition in 2009, and has subsequently been translated into Japanese and Polish.  Although there has since been issued a small library o