This month’s contributors

DAVE LEWIS

Just after the release of Led

Zep IV (about which he writes this issue), Dave was lucky enough to be in attendance at Zep’s Empire Pool Wembley show – the first of 15 occasions he saw them play live. The effect has been a lasting one.

Evenings With Led Zeppelin,

the acclaimed book he wrote with Mike Tremaglio, is out in an expanded edition by Omnibus Press on September 9.

MILTON MERMIKIDES

Milton is a composer, guitarist, academic and unapologetic nerd. His academic and popular writing is published widely, and this month he explains the technical musical genius of Led

Zep IV (p26) . He is Reader in Music at the University of Surrey, Professor of Guitar at the Royal College of Music and Deputy Director of the International Guitar Research Centre. www.miltonline.com

KEN SHARP

This month we’re pleased to welcome Ken back to CR’s pages as part of our Led Zep IV celebration (p26). Ken spoke extensively with engineer Andy Johns about the album prior to his passing. Ken is the New York Times best-selling author of Nothin’ To Lose: The Making Of Kiss (1972-1975) and is also a singer/songwriter with six albums

to his name, Miniatures is his latest. More at ken-sharp.com