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Their Satanic Majesties Request: When Led Zeppelin Ruled The World

Barney Hoskyns, 'Trampled Under Foot' (Faber & Faber), September 2012

By 1973, Led Zeppelin was the biggest rock band on the planet. In this excerpt from Trampled Under Foot, Barney Hoskyns' new oral history of the group, key players in the story explain how Zeppelin laid waste to America and ruled the roost in their adopted Los Angeles.

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