PERSONAE GRATAE: VOICES IN THIS BOOK

JUSTIN ADAMS World music–steeped guitarist and Plant's principal '90s sideman

SAM AIZER Worked at Swan Song's New York office, mainly with Bad Company

STEVE ALBINI Produced the 1998 Page and Plant album Walking into Clarksdale

KEITH ALTHAM Interviewed Jimmy Page, the Yardbirds, and Led Zeppelin for NME, Record Mirror, and other publications

KENNETH ANGER Black Arts–dabbling director of Lucifer Rising, for which Jimmy Page supposedly failed to complete a soundtrack

MIKE APPLETON Producer of BBC2's Old Grey Whistle Test and mate of Zeppelin's

DICK ASHER Epic Records chief in the late '60s, snubbed by Page and Peter Grant in favor of Atlantic

JANE AYER Publicist at Atlantic Records' L.A. office and Zeppelin confidante

LONG JOHN BALDRY Singer with Blues Incorporated and other '60s R&B groups in London

FRANK BARSALONA Founder of the Premier Talent booking agency, which represented Zeppelin until 1972; once described by Ahmet Ertegun as “the most powerful man in the record industry”

JUNE HARRIS BARSALONA Former U.S. correspondent of New Musical Express and wife of Frank Barsalona

PETER BARSOTTI Worked for promoter Bill Graham at the time of the Oakland incident in 1977

DAVID BATES A&R man for Robert Plant and for Page and Plant's No Quarter album

JEFF BECK Childhood acquaintance of Jimmy Page's and guitarist in the Yardbirds; client of Peter Grant's

MAGGIE BELL Managed by Peter Grant as the singer in Stone the Crows; signed to Zeppelin's Swan Song label

JOHN “JB” BETTIE With his brother Paul (“PB”), worked at Horselunges in Peter Grant's twilight years

BEV BEVAN Drummer in the Move and the Electric Light Orchestra and friend of John Bonham's

ED BICKNELL Former manager of Dire Straits and friend of Peter Grant's

RODNEY BINGENHEIMER L.A. scenester, DJ, and owner in the '70s of the English Disco club on Sunset Boulevard

CHRIS BLACKWELL Founder of Island Records, who nearly signed Zeppelin

ROBBIE BLUNT Black Country guitarist and Robert Plant sideman in the '80s; former member of Silverhead and Bronco

DEBBIE BONHAM R&B singer and John Bonham's younger sister

BILL BONHAM Organist in Robert Plant's pre-Zeppelin band Obs-Tweedle, no relation to John

JASON BONHAM John Bonham's son; drummer with reunited Zeppelin at the O2 show and the Atlantic 40th Anniversary show

JOHN BONHAM Led Zeppelin's drummer; died in 1980

MICK BONHAM John Bonham's younger brother; died in 2000

CAROLINE BOUCHER Disc and Music Echo writer; interviewed Zeppelin several times

LORAINE ALTERMAN BOYLE As Loraine Alterman, toured with and interviewed Zeppelin several times for Melody Maker and other publications

RUSTY BRUTSCHE Cofounder with Jack Calmes of ShowCo sound and lighting in Dallas; worked with Zeppelin from 1971 to 1980

BEBE BUELL Celebrated rock consort; girlfriend of Jimmy Page's for a brief period in the mid-'70s

TREVOR BURTON Original rhythm guitarist in Birmingham band the Move

ALAN CALLAN President of Swan Song in the UK from 1977 to 1979

JACK CALMES Cofounder and head of Showco sound and lighting company in Dallas; worked with Zeppelin on all of their '70s tours

JULIE CARLO Wife of Phil Carlo

PHIL CARLO Roadie for Bad Company, tour manager on the last Zeppelin tour, and Page's right-hand man for most of the '80s

GARY CARNES Showco lighting director on 1977 tour

ROY CARR Interviewed Zeppelin several times for NME, friend of John Bonham's

PHIL CARSON Head of Atlantic Records UK and close confidant of Zeppelin's

CLEM CATTINI Leading drummer on London session scene of the '60s, played regularly with Page and Jones

CHRIS CHARLESWORTH Journalist—and sometime New York correspondent—who interviewed Led Zeppelin several times for Melody Maker

NICKY CHINN Cowriter with Mike Chapman of countless glam-rock hits (by Sweet, Suzi Quatro, and Mud) for Mickie Most's RAK label

ROBERT CHRISTGAU Music editor of the Village Voice, 1974–2006

PETER CLIFTON Film director who completed The Song Remains the Same and shot all of the band's fantasy sequences

BILL COLE Bass player in skiffle and R&B era

MARILYN COLE First wife of Zeppelin tour manager Richard Cole

RICHARD COLE Zeppelin's tour manager from 1968 to 1979

PHIL COLLINS Genesis drummer; played with Robert Plant in the early '80s and performed with Zeppelin at Live Aid

JOHN COMBE Author of the Kidderminster rock history Get Your Kicks on the A456

GYL CORRIGAN-DEVLIN Zeppelin friend who traveled on the 1973 tour

CLIVE COULSON Zeppelin roadie who became Bad Company's tour manager; died in 2006

CAMERON CROWE Interviewed Zeppelin for the L.A. Times and Rolling Stone before becoming a film director; based scenes in Almost Famous on his Zeppelin experiences

JOHN CRUTCHLEY Guitarist with Plant's pre-Zeppelin band Listen

BILL CURBISHLEY Manager of the Who and later of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant

DAVID DALTON Biographer of Janis Joplin and cowriter of autobiographies by Marianne Faithfull, Steven Tyler, and others

RAY DAVIES Leader of the Kinks; Page played on some of his early Pye sides

MALCOLM DENT Caretaker of Boleskine House, the sometime Aleister Crowley residence in Scotland, bought by Page in 1970

MICHAEL DES BARRES Friend of Zeppelin's; singer with Silverhead and with Swan Song band Detective

PAMELA DES BARRES L.A. groupie and girlfriend of Page's in 1969–1970; married (and divorced) Michael Des Barres

JACKIE DeSHANNON L.A. pop/folk singer-songwriter; worked and had relationship with Page in London and America in 1964–1965

MARIE DIXON Widow of Chicago bluesman Willie Dixon, who sued Zeppelin for copyright breach on “Whole Lotta Love” and other songs

DONOVAN SCOTTISH folk-pop-rock star for whom John Paul Jones arranged “Sunshine Superman” and others

CHRIS DREJA Bassist with Page's pre-Zep band the Yardbirds

DAVE EDMUNDS Swan Song artist from 1977 to 1982

MARK ELLEN Presenter of The Old Grey Whistle Test; interviewed Page and Roy Harper in 1984

BOB EMMER Publicity director, Atlantic West Coast office

AHMET ERTEGUN Cofounder of Atlantic Records; mentor and inspiration to Zeppelin

MARIANNE FAITHFULL Immediate Records singer; covered songs written by Page and Jackie DeShannon

BP FALLON UK press officer for Zeppelin, 1972–1976

MICK FARREN Singer with the Deviants; writer for the underground press and NME

BILL FORD Bassist in Bonham's early '60s Brum band the Senators

KIM FOWLEY L.A. producer and scenester

MITCHELL FOX Swan Song U.S. staffer, 1977–1980

PAUL FRANCIS Drummer with Maggie Bell in the mid-'70s

TONY FRANKLIN Bassist in Page's post-Zeppelin band the Firm

TOM FRY Worked for promoter Freddy Bannister at the time of Zeppelin's Knebworth shows

KEVYN GAMMOND Guitarist in Plant's pre-Zeppelin group the Band of Joy and post-Zeppelin group Priory of Brion

STEFAN GATES The naked boy on the cover of Houses of the Holy

VANESSA GILBERT L.A. scenester and Zeppelin friend on the 1973 U.S. tour

DANNY GOLDBERG U.S. press officer for Zeppelin and president of Swan Song in New York

HARVEY GOLDSMITH Promoter of Zeppelin's O2 show in 2007

LORD JOHN GOULD West Sussex vintage car enthusiast who be-friended Peter Grant in the last years of his life

BILL GRAHAM Rock promoter who opened the Fillmore in San Francisco and the Fillmore East in New York; promoted Zeppelin's ill-fated final shows on U.S. soil; died in 1991

GLORIA GRANT Wife of Peter Grant

HELEN GRANT Daughter of Peter Grant

PETER GRANT Manager of the Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Maggie Bell, and Bad Company; died in 1995

WARREN GRANT Son of Peter Grant

JERRY GREENBERG General manager of Atlantic Records, 1969–1980

GEOFF GRIMES Plugger for Atlantic Records UK, 1972–1978

ROSS HALFIN Doyen of hard-rock photographers and close friend of Page's; compiled The Photographers' Led Zeppelin

CONNIE HAMZY AKA “SWEET CONNIE FROM LITTLE ROCK” Arkansas groupie of wide renown

BOB HARRIS Presenter of The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972–1978

ROY HARPER Maverick British folkie; friend of, and inspiration to, Page and Plant

BILL HARRY Zeppelin's first UK press officer

BILL HARVEY Black Country jazz drummer who gave the young Bonham early tutorials

ANDREW HEWKIN Black Country–born painter and friend of Plant's

DAVE HILL Guitarist in the 'N-Betweens and Slade

MICK HINTON Bonham's roadie-cum-dogsbody; died in 2007

ABE HOCH Ran Swan Song's UK office, 1975–1977

GLENN HUGHES Black Country singer and bassist with Trapeze, Deep Purple, and (with Jason Bonham) Black Country Communion

CHRIS HUSTON Owner of Mystic Sound studios in L.A.

ELIZABETH “BETTY” IANNACI Receptionist and Zeppelin point person in Atlantic's West Coast office, 1975–1977

TONY IOMMI Black Sabbath guitarist and close friend of John Bonham's

ANNI IVIL Press officer at the Atlantic UK office, late '60s–early '70s

CATHERINE JAMES Hollywood groupie, an early squeeze of Page's

ANDY JOHNS Younger brother of Glyn; engineer on Led Zeppelin II, III, and the untitled fourth

GLYN JOHNS Engineer/producer on early Page and Jones sessions; engineer on Led Zeppelin

PHIL JOHNSTONE Keyboard player and Plant collaborator on Now and Zen, Manic Nirvana, and Fate of Nations

JOHN PAUL Jones Bassist and keyboard player with Led Zeppelin

REG JONES Singer and guitarist with Bonham's pre-Zeppelin band A Way of Life

JOHN KALODNER '80s A&R kingpin who signed Coverdale/Page to Geffen Records

SHELLEY KAYE Assistant to Steve Weiss in U.S. office of Swan Song

NICK KENT Legendary NME journalist; interviewed Led Zeppelin and the solo Page on several occasions

DESIREE KIRKE Ex-wife of Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke and close friend of Led Zeppelin

SIMON KIRKE Drummer with Free and Bad Company

ALEXIS KORNER Sang and recorded with Plant in 1967, shortly before the latter joined Obs-Tweedle

EDDIE KRAMER Engineer on Houses of the Holy, most of Led Zeppelin II, and some of Physical Graffiti

ALISON KRAUSS Plant's partner on 2007's Grammy-scooping and multi-million-selling Raising Sand

HARVEY KUBERNIK L.A. correspondent for Melody Maker in the '70s; author of Canyon of Dreams

DENNY LAINE Singer with Birmingham's Moody Blues, friend of Bonham's

DON LAW Boston rock promoter

BENJI LeFEVRE Zeppelin sound technician from 1973 to 1980; Plant's right-hand man from 1975 to 1986

DAVE LEWIS Founder and editor of Zeppelin fanzine Tight But Loose; traveled on the 1980 tour

HARVEY LISBERG Manager of Herman's Hermits and '60s associate of Mickie Most's and Peter Grant's

PAUL LOCKEY Bassist in Plant's pre-Zep Band of Joy

MARK LONDON Comanager with Peter Grant of Stone the Crows and Maggie Bell

LULU CLOSE friend of John and Pat Bonham's

JOHN LYDON Former lead singer with the Sex Pistols

UNITY MacLEAN Managed Swan Song's London office from 1976 to 1980

MIKEAL MAGLIERI Son of Mario, proprietor of the Whisky a Go Go and the Rainbow Bar & Grill on L.A.'s Sunset Strip

TONY MANDICH Artist relations manager at Atlantic's West Coast office, 1972–1997

TERRY MANNING Engineered tracks on Led Zeppelin III; owner of Compass Point studios, Nassau

DANNY MARKUS Artist relations manager in Atlantic's Midwest office; later comanaged Luther Vandross and others

STEVE MARRIOTT Lead singer and guitarist in the band Small Faces; later formed Humble Pie

JOE MASSOT Original director of The Song Remains the Same; died in 2002

LORI “LIGHTNING” MATTIX Teenage groupie who became Page's main L.A. squeeze in 1973

JIM MATZORKIS The Bill Graham security guard severely beaten in Oakland by Peter Grant and John Bindon

MALCOLM McLAREN Manager of the Sex Pistols; spent months researching a biopic of Peter Grant

MARIO MEDIOUS Atlantic Records promotion man, 1965–1972

MARTIN MEISSONNIER Parisian world-music producer; prepared African tape loops for No Quarter: Page and Plant Unledded

JOHN MENDELSSOHN Reviewed the first two Zeppelin albums for Rolling Stone

JONI MITCHELL High priestess of the L.A. singer-songwriter com-munity and inspiration for Zeppelin's “Going to California”

MICKIE MOST Producer of the Animals and Herman's Hermits; partner with Peter Grant in RAK Records and Management; died in 2003

DON MURFET Head of security for Zeppelin in the late '70s; died in 2005

CHARLES SHAAR Murray Famed journalist and blues writer who interviewed Zeppelin for NME and other publications

LAURENCE MYERS Accountant who partnered with Mickie Most and Peter Grant in RAK Records and Management in the mid-'60s.

HOWARD MYLETT Author of Led Zeppelin (1976) and renowned Zeppelin collector and expert; died in 2011

SIMON NAPIER-BELL Second manager of the Yardbirds

RON NEVISON Engineer on Headley Grange sessions for Physical Graffiti

DAVE NORTHOVER Nominally John Paul Jones's assistant on Zeppelin's 1975 and 1977 U.S. tours

JEFF OCHELTREE Drum tech who advised and assisted Bonham on 1977 U.S. tour

JOHN OGDEN Pop music writer on the Birmingham Express and Star newspaper from the early '60s to the '90s

ANDREW LOOG OLDHAM Manager of the Rolling Stones and founder of Immediate Records; hired Page and Jones to play on sessions

JIMMY PAGE Led Zeppelin's founder and guitarist

DAVE PEGG Played bass in Bonham's pre-Zep band A Way of Life; close friend of the Zeppelin drummer's

ROBERT PLANT Led Zeppelin's lead singer and lyricist

MAC POOLE Midlands drummer; replaced Bonham in A Way of Life

IGGY POP Lead singer of the Stooges; habitué of Rodney's English Disco

AUBREY POWELL Cofounder of Hipgnosis Design; created sleeves for all Zeppelin albums from Houses of the Holy to In through the Out Door

GUY PRATT Bassist in Coverdale/Page; played on Olympics version of “Whole Lotta Love”

PERRY PRESS London estate agent to the stars; found homes for Led Zeppelin and Peter Grant

DOMENIC PRIORE L.A. music historian; author of Riot on Sunset Strip

HOSSAM RAMZY Egyptian arranger on No Quarter: Page and Plant Unledded album and tour

TERRY REID Singer originally considered for Zeppelin before Plant; managed by Mickie Most

BARRY JAY Reiss Worked with Steve Weiss before and during the Swan Song era

JOHN RENBOURN Folk guitarist on the Kingston/Richmond circuit and founder member of Pentangle

KEITH RICHARDS Guitarist and coleader of the Rolling Stones

RICHARD RIEGEL Rock critic and contributor to Creem

JAKE RIVIERA Managed Dave Edmunds and signed him to Swan Song

WILLIE ROBERTSON Provided insurance coverage to Zeppelin and numerous other rock bands; died in 2011

LISA ROBINSON New York rock writer; interviewed Zeppelin for Disc, NME, and Creem

PAUL RODGERS Lead singer of Free, Bad Company, and the Firm

STEVEN ROSEN Interviewed Page and Jones for Guitar Player; traveled on the Zeppelin plane on the 1977 U.S. tour

CYNTHIA SACH Worked in Swan Song's UK office, 1977–1981

JANINE SAFER WHITNEY As Janine Safer, worked closely with Zeppelin and other Swan Song acts in the label's New York office; main press liaison officer on the 1977 U.S. tour

EDWARD ST. Aubyn Author of Mother's Milk and other acclaimed novels

ELLEN SANDER Traveled with Zeppelin in 1969 and published her account of the experience in the 1973 book Trips

RAT SCABIES Drummer with the Damned, whom Zeppelin came to see at London's Roxy in 1977; auditioned for the Firm in 1984

TONY SECUNDA Manager of Birmingham bands the Move and the Moody Blues; died in 1995

HARRY SHAPIRO Biographer of Alexis Korner

DENNIS SHEEHAN Assistant to Robert Plant on the 1977 U.S. tour; subsequently, road manager for U2

BURKE SHELLEY Bassist and singer in the '70s Welsh power trio Budgie

PAUL SIMONON Bassist with the Clash

JIM SIMPSON Founder of Big Bear Records and mainstay of Birmingham music scene; hired Bonham to play in Locomotive

DIGBY SMITH Tape-operator/engineer at Island Studios on sessions for Led Zeppelin III and the untitled fourth album

HENRY “THE HORSE” SMITH Roadie for the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, 1966–1972; subsequently worked for Aerosmith

STEVE SMITH Producer of Robert Palmer and other artists; was asked to produce Maggie Bell for Swan Song

BARNABY SNOW Director of a TV documentary about the Black Country

MAT SNOW Former editor of MOJO; interviewed all three surviving Zeppelin members several times for MOJO and Q

DON SNOWDEN Author of the Willie Dixon biography I Am the Blues (1995)

DENNY SOMACH Creator and producer of the “Get the Led Out” segment on many U.S. classic rock radio stations

SABLE STARR Queen of the L.A. ultravixens; Lori Mattix's coconspirator and chief rival; died in 2009

ROD STEWART Singer in the Jeff Beck Group, managed by Peter Grant and road-managed by Richard Cole

MARTIN STONE Guitarist in the Action and Mighty Baby; later sold rare occult books to Page

BIG JIM Sullivan Leading session guitarist on the '60s London studio scene and mentor to “Little” Jimmy Page

RAY THOMAS Flautist and singer with the Moody Blues

BRAD TOLINSKI Editor-in-Chief of Guitar World

DAN TREACY Singer and guitarist with the Television Personalities; worked in Swan Song's UK office

STEVEN TYLER Lead singer of Aerosmith; tried out as Plant's replacement in London after the O2 show

JAAN UHELSZKI Interviewed Zeppelin for Creem; traveled with the band on 1975 and 1977 U.S. tours

STEVE VAN ZANDT Guitarist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band; inducted Frank Barsalona into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005

CHARLIE WATTS Drummer with the Rolling Stones

JON WEALLEANS Architect who drew up plans for Page's Equinox bookshop in Kensington

STEVE WEISS New York entertainment lawyer who negotiated Zeppelin's Atlantic deal and subsequently took care of all Swan Song legal affairs; died in 2008

CHRIS WELCH Melody Maker staffer who interviewed Zeppelin several times in the '70s and Page and Plant in the subsequent decade

MORGANA WELCH L.A. groupie, Zeppelin friend, and author of The Hollywood Diaries

JERRY WEXLER Atlantic Record producer and executive; signed Led Zeppelin in 1968; died in 2008

JACK WHITE White Stripes singer, writer, and guitarist, influenced by Zeppelin; costar with Page and U2's the Edge in 2009 documentary It Might Get Loud

DAVID WILLIAMS Boyhood friend—and fellow blues and rock 'n' roll fanatic—of Page's in Epsom

RICHARD WILLIAMS Melody Maker writer and editor; interviewed Plant in early '70s

ROY WILLIAMS Black Country veteran and live engineer for Robert Plant

SALLY WILLIAMS Ex-girlfriend of Bonham roadie Mick Hinton

MICHAEL WINNER Director of Death Wish II, for which Page supplied the soundtrack music

JOE “JAMMER” WRIGHT Chicago blues guitarist and Zeppelin roadie; later played with Maggie Bell