New Led Zeppelin documentary finally has a release date

The new Led Zeppelin documentary was first screened at the 78th Venice Film Festival with the presence of the band’s co-founder, guitarist and producer Jimmy Page. It received a 10-minute standing ovation and since then millions of fans were waiting for the documentary which is mixed with a concert to be released. Four years later, the trailer is finally out and it will hit the theatres next February 7, available on IMAX.

The guitarist Jimmy Page said earlier this year that an authorized documentary wasn’t made previously because people wanted to focus on everything but the music. He is pleased with this one because it’s mainly focused on the music the Hard Rock band did.

Watch the trailer of “Becoming Led Zeppelin”

In a press release to announce the movie, the writer and producer Allison McGourty talked about how the film was made. “We spent five years flying back and forth across the Atlantic scouring attics and basements in pursuit of rare and unseen film footage, photographs and music recordings. Then we transferred each piece of media with custom techniques, so that in IMAX, these 55-year-old clips and music would look and sound like they came out of the lab yesterday,” Allison McGourty.

Besides interviews with the band’s surviving members Jimmy Page (Guitarist, producer), John Paul Jones (Bass, keyboardist) and Robert Plant (Vocalist), the documentary will also feature a never before heard interview with the late legendary drummer John Bonham. He tragically passed away in 1980 at the age of 32 and that was why the band came to an end. The other three members decided that they could not continue without John since he was an integral part of the band’s sound.

In the following decades Robert Plant constructed a successful and praised solo career while Jones and Page were not that commercially successful in their projects or bands.