What You Want Is in the Limo On the Road with Led Zeppelin, Alice

The Who's Quadrophenia. Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy. Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies. These three marathon tours were the most ambitious of these artists' careers, and they would forever change everything that came after: the money, the business, the performances, the privileges, and the excess. Rock gods-and their entourages-were born. Tour buses became jets; theaters became arenas; shows became spectacles. As the naive counter-culturalism of the '60s morphed into the '70s, an altogether more cynical era took hold: peace, love, and understanding devolved into sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Acclaimed journalist Michael Walker catches the spirit of the times, gets the best stories, and crystallizes a defining moment for the culture that ushered in the modern era of rock superstardom. Story Locale: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other U.S. tour cities