The first ever officially sanctioned film about the group, the recently-released Becoming Led Zeppelin has got everybody talking. In its two-hour duration, it covers the early stories of all four band ...
Despite having shut down legions of authors and filmmakers interested in their story, the members of Led Zeppelin said yes to Bernard MacMahon. Why?
The number one may be seen as a rock cliché, but the truth is that it’s probably the only rock song ever written that most ...
Discover What’s Streaming On: Perhaps you’ve felt the vibrations in the comfort of your own home, a resonant thunder from the Hammer of the Gods. There’s a new movie, Becoming Led Zeppelin, loaded ...
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Director Bernard MacMahon talks about making the movie about a legendary band that trusted the filmmakers to get the band's origin story told right (and told loudly). Way back, my mom was an antique ...
As far as Led Zeppelin's millions of devoted fans are concerned, the legendary band wouldn't have been the same without iconic frontman Robert Plant. But as the rock star recalled in a recent ...
Members of Led Zeppelin, particularly guitarist Jimmy Page, worked hard to make sure that Becoming Led Zeppelin authentically presented their early days. As Jason Bonham tells the UCR Podcast, he also ...
It’s August 1968, and in a poky room beneath London’s Gerrard Street, Jimmy Page is rehearsing his new band. A 24-year-old guitar-for-hire who’d made uncredited appearances on epochal hits by The Who, ...
The drummer assures fans that when they come out to hear Physical Graffiti live, it will be an experience. "I don't want you to know what's coming," he details. "We will be playing the entire album, ...
Five years after the first-ever authorized documentary about Led Zeppelin was first announced — and nearly three years after it premiered at the Venice Film Festival — the long-awaited film is finally ...