Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin And Beyond
Mark Blake
Peter Grant was a self-made monster: an ex-bouncer who steamrolled over anyone who got in the way of Led Zeppelin, the band he played a huge part in turning into the biggest superstars of the 1970s. Bring It On Home does nothing to dismantle the legend. Grant’s life was in equal measure fascinating and repulsive, populated with gangsters and groupies, dealers and FBI informants.
But Floyd/Queen biographer Mark Blake looks beneath the façade and finds the complex, sometimes vulnerable soul at the heart of the myth. Friends and family build a picture of a loyal, charming man who would eventually come to regret some – if not quite all – of his behaviour. Anyone who ended up on the business end of one of his beatings would recoil, but it’s hard to not come out of this liking Peter Grant.
Dave Everley