Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page has revealed how he was finally persuaded to agree to a documentary about the pioneering British rock band.
Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page has revealed how he was finally persuaded to agree to a documentary about the pioneering British rock band. P age – who played guitar in the foursome, which also included singer Robert Plant, bass player John Paul Jones and the late John Bonham on drums – revealed at the Venice film festival how he turned down a lot of “pretty miserable” pitches over the years to make a documentary about their incredible success in the 1960s and 70s. But he finally agreed after receiving a meticulously-researched proposal focusing almost exclusively on the music and chronicling the band’s birth in 1968 and their meteoric early rise. The result is Becoming Led Zeppelin, one of the most eagerly-anticipated documentaries at the festival, which made its premiere on Saturday with Page on the red carpet. Producers Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty – avowed Zeppelin fans – obtained never-before-seen footage of some of the band’s early US and British concerts as well as an astonishing audio interview that drummer Bonham gave to an Australian journalist before he died in 1980.
