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Posted by Robert Plant
on December 2, 2008, 3:17 am, in reply to "Re: New book eagerly awaited!..."
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I guess that everyone who follows this forum and anyone with any interest in Jim and his music will be eagerly anticipating this long awaited book. I only hope that it receives the attention and sales that a work of this magnitude deserves. I am so pleased that Larry has taken up the challenge to produce what I am sure will be an accurate and detailed account of Jim’s life that will refute the lies, assertions and accusations produced in Michael Streissguth’s fictitious work of fantasy ‘Like a Moth to a Flame’! This book has been needed for many years (and maybe needed to have been written some twenty years before as so many of Jims older followers who would have loved this book have now passed away) and it is to be hoped that it will produce renewed interest in both Jim and his music some forty plus years after his sad and untimely passing. The Streissguth book was available from Waterstones here in the UK and it is to be hoped that Larry’s book will be available worldwide from good outlets to get the maximum interest and recognition I am sure it will deserve. We look forward to its imminent publication and I too agree with Mike that the cover design shown is powerful in its simplicity. We look forward to it’s rolling off the presses very soon! As Sir Winston Churchill one famously said “Let it roll, let it roll, let it roll”!
--Previous Message--
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: I was privileged to see a few paragraphs
: from Larry's book about a year ago. They
: pertained to Jim's fatal plane crash. These
: paragraphs alone are worth the price of the
: entire book. Trust me! This book will do
: more to revive Jim's legacy than anything in
: the last 40 years. Larry's writing ability
: is every bit as good as Jim's ability to
: sing -- and, believe me, I mean that as the
: ultimate compliment.
:
: David Mills
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: --Previous Message--
: I was very excited to see the new info about
: the book being released soon! I would also
: like to say that way back in the beginning
: when this site first showed a picture of
: what the cover would look like, I wasn't
: really crazy about the picture or the
: design. However, the new info that was
: posted here recently shows different cover
: art that is absolutely breathtaking! Great
: picture of Jim and nice design and colors! I
: prefer this one much more and I hope that
: this is the one that will be used when it is
: published! I'm assuming, Larry, that maybe
: you took another look at the original cover
: and decided it needed improving. Am I right?
: In any case, I'm really looking foward to
: the book, which will be THE BIG EVENT of
: 2009 for me, assuming it is out by then.
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