{"id":891184,"date":"2026-09-11T01:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891184\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T01:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:44:12","slug":"a-new-version-of-led-zeppelin-biography-when-giants-walked-the-earth-is-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891184\/","title":{"rendered":"A new version of Led Zeppelin biography &#8216;When Giants Walked the Earth&#8217; is on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"777\" height=\"437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-10-at-10.24.11-pm-777x437.png\" class=\"attachment-content-single size-content-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"When Giants Walked The Earth Mick Wall\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\">\nPosted By: <a class=\"fn\" href=\"https:\/\/ledzepnews.com\/author\/ledzepnews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ledzepnews<\/a><br \/>\n10th September 2026\n<\/p>\n<p>A new version of author Mick Wall\u2019s 2008 Led Zeppelin biography \u201cWhen Giants Walked the Earth\u201d will be published later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Music publishing business White Rabbit <a href=\"https:\/\/store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk\/products\/when-giants-walked-the-earth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will publish a new version of the book as part of its Deep Cuts series on December 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new version of the book will include a new foreword by Lenny Kaye. This version is \u201cthe fully updated edition of Mick Wall\u2019s definitive biography of Led Zeppelin,\u201d the publisher states on its website.<\/p>\n<p>An expanded and updated version of the book was published in 2018 to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Led Zeppelin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/meticulously-researched-account-of-the-world-of-led-236359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wall has claimed<\/a> that Page threatened to sue over the contents of the book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWall\u2019s just writing a book designed to cash in on something he didn\u2019t have anything to do with. He wasn\u2019t a creative force in Led Zep,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/sunday-times-rich-list\/profile\/article\/jimmy-page-on-led-zeppelins-good-times-bad-times-and-reunion-rumours-tgx38wl8v6n\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Page told The Times in 2010<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m at something of a disadvantage because I haven\u2019t chosen to read that book, but I hear it\u2019s totally distorted from people who do know about Led Zeppelin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Follow Led Zeppelin News on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LedZepNews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ledzepnews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> to stay up to date on news as it happens. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/ledzepnews.substack.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sign up to our email<\/a> for a digest of the latest news sent to your inbox. LedZepNews uses paid Amazon referral links to earn commissions to cover its costs.\t&#13;<br \/>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Posted By: ledzepnews 10th September 2026 A new version of author Mick Wall\u2019s 2008 Led Zeppelin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-891184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}