Stephen Davis writes rock biography and music journalism about bands whose public mythology is inseparable from touring, excess and internal conflict. Hammer of the Gods is his best-known book, an unauthorised biography of Led Zeppelin that follows the band’s formation, recording career, US tours and notorious backstage reputation. Walk This Way, written with Aerosmith, gives that band’s history through interviews and first-person voices, while Old Gods Almost Dead covers the Rolling Stones and Gold Dust Woman centres on Stevie Nicks. Davis writes dramatically, often foregrounding personality, drugs, sex and the mechanics of life on the road as much as the music itself. Hammer of the Gods remains Davis’s defining rock biography, especially for readers who want Led Zeppelin understood through touring culture, backstage mythology and the personalities around the band rather than through close musical analysis. Read more Less
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