Becoming Led Zeppelin

AroView: A documentary becoming of the British rock heavyweights who’ve sold more than 200 million records. It details their formative years, anchored by the brainchild of guitarist Jimmy Page who enjoyed prodigious training as a teenage session musician and further success with The Yardbirds.

Robert Plant and John Paul Jones have also survived to tell the tales leading to mega-success in the US of A, and the never-seen-before clips of songs like ‘Dazed and Confused’ and ‘Good Times Bad Times’ are among the most powerful and mesmerizing of any rock performance captured on film. It’s a rock doc that doesn’t outstay its welcome because it doesn’t go beyond the release of Led Zeppelin II, but there’s still a whole lot to love.

“Led Zeppelin were truly a band where each of the four members played a vital part in its success, and that’s on full display throughout the film.” ~Spencer Kaufman, Consequence

“For a casual fan who knows the band largely for swagger and self-indulgence, Bernard MacMahon’s Becoming Led Zeppelin is an eye-opening delight — a visit with charming old men who modestly recall the music-drunk paths they took to forming the defining band of the classic-rock ’70s.” ~John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter