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Managing Led Zeppelin, the Biggest Band on Earth

5/27/2019

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This week author Mark Blake joins Nate to talk about his book “Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond--The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager.”

In this episode, Mark and Nate talk about the man behind the biggest rock band of the 1970s, Peter Grant, manager of Led Zeppelin. Mark goes beyond the legends of money, muscle and drugs and tells us about the real human being who fought for his clients and turned the music industry on its ear.

Come back next week when author Andrew Flory joins us to discuss Berry Gordy's Motown music factory.
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The Reverend Doc.Baz
4/11/2021 01:03:25 am

Mickie Most started out as a singer, hence his silly name.
He appeared on the talent show in order to sign up new talent he could control. He employed my brother (a singer/guitarist) to act as musical director for such an act (who shall remain nameless) who at that particular time had a # 1 in the U.K.
They were only teenagers & being # 1 naturally went to their heads & refused to concede that without Most`s production, their vocals were substandard & session players had to be employed as they couldn`t really play than more a couple of songs, badly.
My brother packed it in & coincidently the band were never heard of again.

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Nate Wilcox link
4/12/2021 03:39:05 pm

I have no doubt. Thanks for sharing that story. I just interviewed Jeff Beck Group biographer Dave Thompson and he had more Mickie Most stories. That will drop this summer.

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