Mark Blake

Listen to "Mark Blake Releases Bring It On Home" on Spreaker. This fall marks the golden anniversary of Led Zeppelin, the band most closely associated with notorious rock manager Peter Grant. Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond-The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager> is the first solo treatment of the "fifth member" of the band. Mark Blake, who has written biographies of Pink Floyd and Queen, first laid eyes on Grant watching The Song Remains the Same in a London cinema in 1982. He first met him a decade later and years after that began to learn the lesser known stories from Grant's son, Warren. With the full cooperation of Grant's estate, Blake gained access to private correspondence, business contracts, artifacts, and photographs. "Nothing about Grant was quite how it seemed," writes Blake. "He was a master at allowing the mythology, the gossip, and the rumors to spread-to keep the 'real' Peter Grant under wraps." Full of new insights into Grant's early life, new details about the formation of and his relationship with Led Zeppelin, an unrevealed plot by Jamaican gangsters to kidnap the band members' children, letters from police regarding threats made against the band by American Satanists, as well as Grant's seclusion late in life after the dissolution of the band and his recovery from substance abuse, Bring It On Homereveals a man who, after the extraordinary highs and lows of a career in music management, found both peace and happiness in a more ordinary life.