Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin and Beyond: The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager

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"'An enthralling and rigorously researched book'" - Sunday Times

"'Blake has talked to everyone, and the stories are both lurid and melancholy'" - Mail on Sunday

"'A juicy saga of excess all areas, Mark Blake's biography of Led Zeppelin's notoriously combative manager, Peter Grant, reads at times like an all-you-can-eat buffet of guilty pleasures . . . a riotous roller coaster'" - The Times

"'A tale as expansive and complex as the man himself'" - Mojo

"'To say Bring It On Home is a rambunctious page-turner is an understatement; but despite all the violence and weirdness, you can't help liking the "real" Peter Grant who emerges here'" - Planet Rock

The late Peter Grant propelled Led Zeppelin to global stardom. Yet, his own life story was every bit as extraordinary and dramatic as the musicians he so fiercely looked after. For the very first time, the Grant family have granted an author access to previously unseen correspondence and photographs, helping to construct the most complete and revealing narrative to date of a man who was not only a pioneer of rock music management but also a son, a husband, and a father.

Published to coincide with Led Zeppelin's 50th anniversary, Bring It On Home charts Peter Grant's rise from wartime poverty through his time as a nightclub doorman, wrestler, and bit-part actor to the very birth of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s. From there, it explores his pivotal role in the formation of Led Zeppelin and meticulously charts the unimaginable highs and crushing lows of life on the road with arguably rock's most outrageous band.

Bring It On Home incorporates almost 100 new interviews with family members, friends, musicians, and rival managers, and features walk-on parts for a remarkable cast including Sharon Osbourne, Bob Dylan, Stanley Kubrick, Freddie Mercury, Elizabeth Taylor, the FBI, the CIA, the Mafia – and even Elvis Presley. As Grant's son Warren states now: "'My dad knew everyone.'"

This is the first biography to uncover the truth behind Led Zeppelin's eventual demise, Grant's subsequent fall from grace amidst death threats and the menacing shadow of organised crime, and his final years as a man who turned his back on the excesses of the music industry in favour of his closest friends and family. With access to several previously unpublished interviews – including Grant's last and most revealing – Bring It On Home sheds significant new light on the story of rock's greatest manager and one of the true giants of modern music history.