Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin by Barney Hoskyns

Author:Barney Hoskyns [Hoskyns, Barney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Music, Non-Fiction, Biography
ISBN: 0571259359
Google: LyDdgwZ0DYUC
Amazon: B008CB9JT2
Goodreads: 19230480
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2012-09-03T12:00:00+00:00

BEBE BUELL I was at the Hyatt House with Todd Rundgren and my pet raccoon Kundalini, and Led Zeppelin were in town for the Swan Song party. There’s a scene in Almost Famous where the band is walking through the lobby of the hotel and it’s totally accurate. It was more like a nightclub than a hotel. You had to step over this legion of girls that would actually camp in the hallways.

NICK KENT I once went to see Page at the Hyatt House, and Squeaky Fromme – the former Manson girl – was in the lobby trying to get to them. When I got to the ninth floor and knocked on his door, three other doors immediately opened. It was like, “You gonna see Jimmy? Tell him Dave’s here and I’ve brought a guitar for him.” These people had booked rooms just to be near him.

BEBE BUELL Todd drops this bomb that he wants to go to San Francisco without me – which developed into quite a row. I became hysterical and was comforted by Kim Fowley and Rodney Bingenheimer and Michelle Myer. I get into the elevator and in walks Jimmy, along with his minders, one of whom was Richard Cole.

About five in the morning, I’m lying in bed and the phone rings. I pick it up and it’s Jimmy. He is very, very distressed, because he has returned from doing a session for Joe Walsh, whose daughter has just been killed in a car accident. He was extremely despondent, and he asked if I would come up to his room and have breakfast with him. He said, “I would just like to have a shoulder to talk to.” It was a unique Pageism.

When I got to his room he asked me what I wanted to eat and he asked what the raccoon would like. He had this amazing fruit basket, so he suggested we put the fruit down for the raccoon in the bathroom. Out came the cocaine, and I started to tell him my plight and he started to tell me about his crazy relationship with Charlotte Martin. We were in the thick of our conversation, and Peter Grant came into the room and said, “Oh, I see you captured your beauty.” Peter then asked to use the bathroom, which was when we heard the gasp and the scream. The raccoon had eaten so much of the fruit that she had shat herself. Peter walks out of the bathroom and says, “What’ve you two been up to?”

Jimmy was going to go and see Elvis Presley with the other members of Zeppelin. He said, “Do you want to come and meet The King with us?”

ROBERT PLANT Jerry Weintraub was operating as our agent at the time, and he was Presley’s agent as well. The King demanded to know who these guys were who were selling tickets faster than he was.

BEBE BUELL There was another knock at the door, and – being naive – I went and opened it without the chain on it.

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