After years of fine-tuning, Becoming Led Zeppelin finally has a release date and trailer. The first official documentary on Led Zeppelin arrives in IMAX theaters on February 7. In the new teaser, footage of the legendary British band over the years is interspersed with present-day interviews, old home movies, and live concerts. It also reveals that the documentary features a never-before-heard interview with the late John Bonham. Watch it below.
As the first authorized documentary on the band, Becoming Led Zeppelin tells the story of Led Zeppelin in the members’ own words. In addition to new interviews with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones, it boasts unearthed material from all four members’ personal archives. Director Bernard MacMahon also successfully uncovered previously unseen footage from the band’s 1969 concerts at the Atlanta Pop Festival, the Fillmore West, and the Texas Pop Festival.
“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,” writer-producer Allison McGourty said in a press release. “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.”
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