Becoming Led Zeppelin features unprecedented access and more
The first-ever authorized documentary of Led Zeppelin, featuring unprecedented access to the band, has been completed, according to Variety. American Epic director Bernard MacMahon has revealed the title as Becoming Led Zeppelin. It’s the only time the band has participated in a documentary about themselves its 50 year history.
“Becoming Led Zeppelin is a film that no one thought could be made,” MacMahon says. “The band’s meteoric rise to stardom was swift and virtually undocumented. Through an intense search across the globe and years of restoration of the visual and audio archive found, this story is finally able to be told.”
Announced in 2019 as part of the band’s 50th anniversary celebration, the documentary traces the journeys of the four members through the music scene of the 1960’s, their meeting in the summer of 1968 for a rehearsal that will change the future of rock, and culminates in 1970 when their second album knocks The Beatles off the top of the charts and they become the number one band in the world.
The film features newly conducted interviews with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones, as well as rare archival interviews with the late John Bonham. The Led Zeppelin story is told through the words of the men that lived it, with no outside voices or conjecture. Featuring never before seen archive film and photographs, state of the art audio transfers of the band’s music, as well as the music that shaped their sound, this documentary will be the definitive telling of the birth of the world’s biggest selling rock band.
No release date has been announced as of press time.
