Over ten years after the release of WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH, the iconic biography of the band by Mick Wall, comes this significant and extensively researched revision, which offers an uncompromising look at life inside one of the most commercially successful rock bands of all time and presents the definitive and final word on Led Zeppelin. Were they 'the last great band of the '60s and the first great band of the '70s'? They emerged, somewhat without promise, from the ashes of the Yardbirds to become one of the most commercially successful rock bands of all time. Mick Wall, respected rock writer and former intimate of Page and Plant, tells unflinchingly the story of the band that wrote the 'rule book' for excess while touring - and ultimately paid the price for it, with disasters, addictions, and deaths. WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH reveals for the first time the true extent of band leader Jimmy Page's lasting obsession with the occult and goes behind the scenes to uncover the truth behind their much-heralded but spectacularly short-lived comeback at London's O2 arena in 2007, as well as how Jimmy Page plans to make the band's comeback permanent - if only his former protégée, now turned rival, Robert Plant, will allow it. Wall also tells, through a series of flashbacks, the life stories of the five men who turned the Led Zeppelin dream into an even more incredible and barely believable reality: Page, Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and their infamous manager, Peter Grant.