Borodowitz - Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin: Interviews & Encounters

Cast and crew of the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center.

Laura Moody, Jennie Thomas, Anastasia Karel, and Amanda Rabb at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives.

My son Michael, for his research assistance at both places.

Mike Jacobs and Jeff Peisch, two vintage associates, and Cathy Carapella, a new one, even though that piece didnt make it in.

Maggie, David, John, Dan, Andy, Adam, Margaret, et al. at Bergen Community College.

Paul Cashmere, honcho at Australian music news service the Noise Network, for doing Australian legwork above and beyond.

Denny Somach, who knows more about radio and television syndication than anyone I know, and who recognized Alan Freemans work and knew not only the provenance of the piece but knew the piece itself.

Peter Carlo Evangelista, who transcribed a lot of the recorded sources and stuck with this project for months.

Arthur Levy, one of my mentors in this stuff, who stuck a thumb into his stash of his classic publication Zoo World and pulled out a plum.

Chuck Eddy for understanding.

Dan Sheehan for being such a monster Zep fan that he was willing to read this in manuscript and comment on it.

All of the people whose work appears in this book. Once again, I am standing on the shoulders of giants.

Yuval Taylor, who postponed this book far more times than should be allowed. Amelia Estrich for her work throughout the books production.

Mike (again), Larry, William, and even Caren.

Author, broadcaster, and NME features editor Keith Altham interviewed the likes of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Ray Davies, Jim Morrison, and the Beach Boys on innumerable occasions. In the early 60s, he wrote for the legendary fan magazine Fabulous from its inception. Subsequently he became Englands most successful independent rock press agent for three decades beginning in the early 70s, representing most of those artists he had previously interviewed. He appeared frequently on BBC 2s Scene and Heard and contributed to BBC Radio 2s program The Changing Styles of Music Journalism, Music Hype, and Virgin FMs Tribute to Jimi Hendrix. Altham is also accountable for giving Hendrix the idea of setting fire to his guitar. In addition to radio, he has worked as a contributor on film and TV. Altham is the author of The PR Strikes Back (John Blake, 2001) and is currently working on a book about his life in the 60s as well as a biography of a well-known superstar.

Widely recognized as one of the most culturally influential, politically trenchant, and innovative artists of the twentieth century, William S. Burroughs became a key figure in the generation of writers that emerged in the early 1950s. He is the author of Queer and Naked Lunch, among other works, and collaborated throughout his life with many artists in various media, including Brion Gysin, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Ian Sommerville, Throbbing Gristle, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, and Sonic Youth.

Lon Cabot spent twenty-one years as a senior chief photojournalist for the US Navy. He worked at All Hands magazine, the Pacific and European editions of Stars and Stripes, and served as print media and broadcast journalist aboard ships and at shore bases in the US and overseas. He currently works for FEMA.

Chris Charlesworth was a staff writer on Melody Maker magazine between 1970 and 1977. He has been editor-in-chief at Omnibus Press, the worlds biggest book publisher specializing exclusively in rock and pop titles, since 1983. Much of his work can be found on the website www.rocksbackpages.com.

Thor Christensen is an award-winning writer, journalist, music critic, and editor whose work has appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines worldwide. He is a former staff writer at the Dallas Morning News and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and his stories included one-on-one interviews with Paul McCartney, Aretha Franklin, Mick Jagger, Ray Charles, and Bono. He was a contributing author for the book series Musichound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Christensen won a Katie Award for Arts Feature Writing, a Milwaukee Press Club Award for Arts Criticism, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Katie Couric is an award-winning journalist and TV personality, well-known cancer advocate, and the New York Times best-selling author of The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons From Extraordinary Lives (Random House, 2011). Couric joined the Disney/ABC Television Group in Summer 2011, contributing to ABC World News, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, This Week, and primetime news specials. She hosted the syndicated daytime talk show, Katie, from 2012 to 2014. Couric was the first female solo anchor of an evening news broadcast, the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, and she also contributed to 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning, and CBS News primetime specials. Previously she served as coanchor of NBC News TODAY show. Currently Couric is a global anchor for Yahoo! News. She lives in New York with her two daughters.

Dave DiMartino is the executive editor of Yahoo! Music in Santa Monica. He is a former editor of CREEM, West Coast bureau chief of Billboard magazine, and senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. He is the author of Singer Songwriters: Pop Musics Performer-Composers, from A to Zevon (Billboard Books, 1994), consultant editor of Moonlight Drive: The Stories Behind Every Doors Song (Edition Olms, 1995), and US editor of Music in the 20th Century (M.E. Sharpe, 1998). His writing has appeared in The MOJO Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion (Canongate, 2003) and The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader: Histories and Debates (Oxford University Press, 2004), and in numerous publications including Rolling Stone, MOJO, Musician, Spin, and the Village Voice.

Geffen Records Publicity department serves in creating press releases, press kits, and electronic press kits to get media coverage for their artists. Geffen is now part of Interscope Records.

Danny Goldberg began his career in 1969 as a music journalist for Rolling Stone, Circus, Crawdaddy, Record World, Billboard, and the Village Voice. Later he wrote about culture for the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Tikkun. From 1974 to 1976, Goldberg was vice-president of Led Zeppelins Swan Song Records, and in the early 1980s he co-owned Modern Records, which released Stevie Nicks solo albums. From 1983 to 1992, Goldberg was the founder and president of Gold Mountain Entertainment, a personal management firm whose clients included Nirvana, Hole, Sonic Youth, Bonnie Raitt, and the Allman Brothers Band. Subsequently, Goldberg became chairman and CEO of the Mercury Records Group, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Records, and President of Atlantic Records. He formed the indie label Artemis Records in 1999, which ran until 2005. Artemis releases included Warren Zevons Grammy-winning album The Wind, Steve Earles Grammy winner The Revolution Starts Now, and the Baha Mens Who Let the Dogs Out. Goldberg is currently president of Gold Village Entertainment, managing the careers of The Hives, Steve Earle, Martha Wainwright, and many others. He is author of Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business