For Libraries

Dear Librarian:

If you’re looking for a book to rock your readers, attract patrons of all ages and encourage teens to read more, I hope you’ll consider Sonic Boom: The Impact of Led Zeppelin. Volume 1 – Break & Enter. It’s solid gold for lovers of rock’n’roll – and the pop music culture of the late 1960s.

In fact, the curators at Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame enjoyed it SO much, they asked to keep it their departmental library.

The first library in the world to acquire Sonic Boom was the Gladsaxe Hovedbibliotek in Copenhagen, Denmark – the same community where Led Zeppelin performed its first-ever public gig on September 7, 1968.

Since then, these public and university libraries and other institutions have added it to their collection of music reference books:

  • The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Curatorial Dept Library), Cleveland, Ohio
  • Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Archives, Buffalo, New York
  • University of Buffalo, Music Department, Buffalo, New York
  • Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado
  • Stanley-Parr Archives & Record Center, City of Portland, Oregon
  • McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph, Ontario
  • Grey-Bruce Libraries, Owen Sound and Goderich, Ontario
  • Centennial Library, Fort Erie, Ontario
  • Welland Public Library, Welland, Ontario
  • Gladsaxe Hovedbibliotek, Copenhagen, Denmark

Some of them have ordered additional copies because Sonic Boom is proving to be so popular with their patrons. If your library includes a respected section on rock and roll history and musicology, you won’t want your readers to be without this book.

Sonic Boom has been received with rave reviews and critical acclaim worldwide. It’s the first oral history of the band ever written and it was my personal quest to explain WHY Led Zeppelin’s music has endured for forty plus years and HOW the band altered the course of popular music history.

It was specifically designed as a music reference book for libraries (ISBN# 978-9784446-0-0)

  • In-depth research reveals brand-new information about Led Zeppelin that others have missed over the course of four decades – including one of the most comprehensive accounts in print to date about the band’s first-ever public performance as The New Yardbirds
  • Stunning first edition printed by one of Canada’s best dedicated book printers. Durable hard cover with sewn-in binding to withstand the rigours of frequent borrowing. Pages won’t fall out when the spine is cracked open
  • Professionally compiled index so readers can easily navigate the 700+ pages of text and illustrations, most of which have never before been seen in print.
  • All text, illustrations and photographs properly credited and/or licensed – no worries about copyright infringement or royalty issues as with some independently published books
  • Readers are encouraged to learn more, with a comprehensive bibliography and resource list of CDs, websites, books and other reference materials

I interviewed authors like Howard Mylett (Jimmy Page: Tangents within a Framework among others), Luis Rey (Led Zeppelin Live: An Exploration of the Underground Tapes) and Robert Godwin (Led Zeppelin: The Press Reports, among others), who had blazed the research trail before me.

Author/professor Susan Fast (In the Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin and Rock Music) offers a female perspective on many aspects of Led Zeppelin’s music and the band members themselves.

Media historian, Donna Halper (who is credited with having discovered Canadian rock band Rush), was working in radio in Boston when Led Zeppelin debuted at The Tea Party.

Not only has she extensively researched that venue, she also provides historical context to demonstrate why the state of AM radio and the emergence of FM in the 1960s were so critical to Zeppelin’s success as an album format band.

These first-person, factual accounts are extremely compelling and evocative, making Sonic Boom is a fast read that anyone, of any age, can enjoy.

Whether your readers know nothing – or think they know everything – about Led Zeppelin, these eyewitness accounts of the band’s early gigs will give them a real feel for the entire music scene of the late 1960s, including a terrific overview of the hippie subculture.

Firsthand reports of the band’s 2007 reunion gig at London’s O2 Arena bring the Zeppelin story full circle.

Here’s how to get Sonic Boom for your library’s music reference collection

I know that budgets are tight these days. So, for a limited time, I’m making Sonic Boom Volume I available for only $59.95 and will ship it free to any library in the United States or Canada. And you may preview it free for 30 days.

Just send us a Purchase Order for $59.95 USD per book.

Click here for the order form

You may also fax your PO to: (905) 910-0432 or mail it to: Enzepplopedia Publishing, Inc., General Delivery, Station Main, Fort Erie, ON L2A 5M5 Canada.

Your patrons will thank you for ordering Sonic Boom. I do, too!

Frank Reddon
Frank Reddon

PS – Your copy of Sonic Boom Volume 1 will be shipped and on its way to you within 24 hours of your online order (please allow a bit more processing time for mail orders).

PPS – I’d love to hear what you and your readers think of the book! Please email your comments to: frank@enzepplopedia.com