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29-03-2025
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‘Becoming Led Zeppelin' Has Rocked the Box Office by Treating It Like a Secret Concert Event
In 2019, director Bernard MacMahon stood in front of film buyers at Cannes and discussed his love of Led Zeppelin. The director of a little-seen music documentary 'American Epic,' he had been selected by the '70s rock gods to tell their story in a rock-doc, something the collective of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and the late John Bonham had never before agreed to do. He had been entrusted with enormous responsibility by icons who had been particularly selective about their legacy. At the time, he didn't even have footage to screen to the buyers. Two years later, MacMahon's film 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' screened as a work-in-progress at Venice. The song remained the same; as IndieWire's review suggested at the time, the film wasn't ready for primetime, and it sat without a buyer. Sony Pictures Classics, which had been following the film from the beginning, saw it again in summer 2024 after it had been reworked. The distributor knew back in 2019 that Zeppelin giving their blessing was special and that it had an audience, but only if the film was right. More from IndieWire CPH:DOX Winners Led by 'Always,' '2000 Meters to Andriivka,' and More Academy Apologizes for Omitting Hamdan Ballal's Name After 600 Academy Members Criticize Its Initial Response to Attack on Filmmaker Now after a release this February, 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' has received a whole lotta love and has surpassed $10 million at the North American box office. It's one of the highest-grossing documentaries at the box office domestically in the last two years, currently just behind last year's 'Piece by Piece' and the right wing satire 'Am I Racist?' And worldwide, it's already at $14.3 million with the likelihood that it will surpass $15 million globally. Roughly $4.7 million of that haul was generated in IMAX screenings, including a $3 million opening weekend that was IMAX's biggest exclusive opening for a music film to date. It was a target of IMAX's after it was acquired by SPC, and it proved a good bet. It plays again on over 200 IMAX screens for one night only on April 2. The film has exceeded expectations for SPC, but the organic success 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' has generated has been through an unconventional and carefully calculated marketing campaign. SPC first began showing teaser trailers ahead of IMAX showings of 'Venom: The Last Dance' last October, but the distributor wouldn't even announce the movie's existence until two months later in December. It generated mystique and online buzz as a result, and the only reviews of it were the tepid ones out of Venice from years earlier. When December rolled around, SPC immediately put tickets on sale for showings as though it was an audience buying concert tickets months in advance of a show. It generated $2 million in advance ticket sales, and only then did SPC announce the additional IMAX only screenings beginning on February 7. Press was part of the process, but not critics. 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' wasn't screened for critics in advance to create a communication breakdown. Instead, the distributor looked to even bigger evangelists who might ramble on about what they saw. With the band themselves not involved, the Counting Crows and Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters were among musicians who saw the film at an early screening. A similar screening in Nashville with local musicians had a similar impact. SPC bought ads on Howard Stern's radio show and, by January, got him talking about the movie, turning their simple one-minute ad buy into a 20-minute segment. The film was also heavily promoted on the radio, with the film screened for a number classic rock radio DJs across the country who spent months talking it up. Several stations also held private screenings for select listeners and then aired their reactions to the film coming out of the theater. Suddenly Zeppelin was back in the cultural ethos. 'Stairway to Heaven' and 'Whole Lotta Love' returned to the Billboard charts for the first time in decades. 'Whole Lotta Love' was featured in a Nike Super Bowl ad coincidentally the same weekend the movie opened wide. And audiences were wowed by the sound quality, the deeper dive history that befuddled even hardcore fans, and the fact that MacMahon's film featured full songs, something that you generally get only in snippets in other music docs. The demand for the film is real. Just don't get trampled under foot on your way to the theater. Best of IndieWire Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 56 Films the Director Wants You to See 'Song of the South': 14 Things to Know About Disney's Most Controversial Movie The 55 Best LGBTQ Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now
BBC News
11-02-2025
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'Raw hunger' to 'scandalous excess': How Led Zeppelin became Britain's ultimate 70s rock band
Becoming Led Zeppelin is a new authorised documentary that tells the "untold story" of the band, who despite achieving global influence and legendary status, are difficult to define. Rock's mightiest anthems, and the tales surrounding them, tend to be continually replayed – and sometimes, their power fades over time. Since their 1968 formation, though, Led Zeppelin's legendary status, and mythology, has particularly endured. The British quartet – driven visionary guitarist/producer Jimmy Page, extravagantly swaggering vocalist Robert Plant, and the poetic powerhouse rhythm section of bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham – have remained instantly recognisable and globally influential, yet tricky to pin down. Their multi-million-selling catalogue is laced with blues, hard rock, folk fables, African, Asian and Latin grooves, macho bombast and avant-garde flair. They gained a rep for scandalous excess, while mostly shunning the press – but now Becoming Led Zeppelin, their first officially authorised documentary, promises to capture the band's "untold story" for posterity. We looked at whether there was one act that carried music through from post-World War Two to the 60s and 70s, and were the embodiment of that final stage of 20th-Century music – and we realised it was Zeppelin – Bernard MacMahon This film's long-awaited cinema release follows a "work in progress" screening at the Venice Film Festival in 2021. Becoming Led Zeppelin also forms a natural progression for filmmakers Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty, following their award-winning 2017 doc series, American Epic, traced the history and impact of America's earliest roots music recordings. "We wanted to do a film that would pick up the next era," MacMahon tells the BBC. "Rather than looking at 100 acts, like we did with American Epic, we looked at whether there was one act that carried that music through from post-World War Two to the 60s and 70s, and were the embodiment of that final stage of 20th-Century music – and we realised it was Zeppelin." Getting Led Zeppelin's surviving members on board involved a meticulously fine-tuned pitch – but it was also pivotal that Page, Plant and Jones were fans of MacMahon and McGourty's previous work; American Epic documented their own musical heroes. "Becoming Led Zeppelin wouldn't have happened without American Epic," admits McMahon. Still, Plant warned the film-makers: "I don't think this film can be made, as we didn't do any TV, and Peter Grant [Led Zeppelin's formidable manager, who died in 1995] would eject audience members with cameras from the venues, rip out their film and smash their cameras, so there isn't any footage of our concerts from those years." Sony Pictures Classics In fact, Becoming Led Zeppelin features two hours of painstakingly sourced archive material, personal photos and performance footage (schoolboy Page playing in a skiffle band; teenage Jones as a church organist; both becoming accomplished session musicians on '60s pop hits) alongside individual new interviews from Page, Plant and Jones. Bonham's death in 1980 (from pulmonary aspiration after heavy drinking) would lead to the band's split – yet he is also surprisingly present here, sounding jovially down-to-earth on a previously unheard audio recording. As a child, MacMahon had "discovered" Led Zeppelin via a book charting the band's rise to fame. "It felt like the American Epic stories, in that it's very relatable: these are four kids, pursuing this dream, and trying to find their way through the music business," he grins. "I thought it was a wonderful, almost Arthurian story." This fantastical spirit is echoed in the film, when Page likens his guitar to Excalibur, the mythical sword. Music as a revelatory force While the "untold story" is steered by the band members' anecdotes, they're not strictly the easiest interviewees – though perhaps this perception is based on my own surreal experience interviewing Page and Plant, when I was a gauche young journalist; they cheerfully shrugged off questions while pouring me cups of tea. Ultimately, it is the music that really speaks volumes. Becoming Led Zeppelin pays testimony to music as a revelatory force, for both fans and performers; octogenarian Page is wide-eyed as he relates first hearing US R&B and soul ("It sounded like it was coming from Mars, even though it was coming from Memphis"). The artists' raw hunger and determination is palpable; we see Plant shape-shift through various looks (mod; "flower power" romantic) before assuming his unmistakeably lithe "rock deity" form in Led Zeppelin – and we watch the band play their hearts out, first commanding fans across Stateside gigs and radio, before their eventual triumphant 1970 "homecoming" show at London's Royal Albert Hall. Photo by William Popsie/ Sony Pictures Classics "We used lots of cinematic techniques to take the viewer back in time," says McGourty. "And we use the song lyrics to propel you forward; when they go to Atlantic Records, we're hearing Your Time Is Going To Come; when Robert [Plant] talks about flying across America, we're hearing Ramble On; and when they're playing these early shows in Europe and nobody is really getting it, they're performing Communication Breakdown." More like this: • The band that soundtracked the US counterculture • The most blistering debut album of all time • How the Sex Pistols sparked outrage in Britain Indeed, there is brilliant early footage from a French TV show, Tous En Scene, where Led Zeppelin are riotously rocking in front of clearly nonplussed studio audience, comprising prim adults and children with their fingers in their ears. Later, we hear the inception of one of their most famous tracks, 1969's Whole Lotta Love (furiously catchy, despite Page's aversion to pop), and see extended performance clips including the 1970 Bath Festival – all incandescent, electric and floridly colourful. You get some sense of the intoxicating atmosphere that would even prompt cult novelist William Burroughs to liken a Led Zeppelin performance (in the US in 1975) to: "the trance music found in Morocco, which is magical in origin and purpose – that is, concerned with the evocation and control of spiritual forces." If anybody across any generation listens to that band you fall into a world that doesn't look or sound like anything else – Phil Alexander "If you're making a film about music, then music is the central character, and the viewers – particularly 100 years from now – have got to hear for themselves what this music is," says MacMahon. Music writer, Mojo magazine Contributing Editor, broadcaster and producer Phil Alexander has worked closely with Page, Plant and Jones, and points out why Led Zeppelin's "kinetic energy" remains vital: "Led Zeppelin are not best mates; it's really obvious in the film," Alexander tells the BBC. "Their camaraderie stems from being on stage, and playing off each other. That pure musicianship is what carries them as people – and what they create as a four-piece cannot be replicated. "If anybody across any generation listens to that band – especially now, when you can discover them at the click of a button – you fall into a world that doesn't look or sound like anything else. I think most bands of their generation sound like they are of a time; with Led Zeppelin, there is a nowness in how they are, musically. I don't know how many times I've listened to all their albums, and I still find things that make me think: did I hear that before?" Becoming Led Zeppelin vividly presents the band's origin story "in the moment"; events unfold chronologically, without hazy nostalgia or foreshadowing of what's to come. The "untold" tale is also undeniably incomplete; the film ends after the release of the band's second album, when they have scaled the heights of fame – and before things have spiralled into destructive hedonism. Despite Plant briefly mentioning "girls and drugs", the account feels unusually wholesome. It is a stark contrast to the tabloid accounts of their debauchery – most notoriously, the grimly salacious (which band members have repeatedly dissociated themselves from) band biography Hammer of the Gods, by Stephen Davis. This feels very deliberate; just as American Epic has been added to educational curricula in the US, Becoming Led Zeppelin is pitched at all ages – with the band not only preserving their legacy, but owning their narrative. "Despite all the things you've read about the 70s, you don't get to that place without being incredibly focused," says MacMahon. "The higher purpose of this film is to tell young people: if you have a passion, and you work hard at your craft and persevere, then you can achieve those dreams. You kind of pick up these lessons as you go on the journey with them. These are the only guys that knew and saw what was happening." Becoming Led Zeppelin is in UK cinemas and on limited release in the US now – it goes on wide release in the US on 14 Feb. -- If you liked this story, sign up for The Essential List newsletter – a handpicked selection of features, videos and can't-miss news, delivered to your inbox twice a week. For more Culture stories from the BBC, follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram. Music Rock music music-history Features
BBC News
11-02-2025
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- BBC News
'Raw hunger' to 'scandalous excess': How Led Zeppelin became Britain's ultimate '70s rock band
Becoming Led Zeppelin is a new authorised documentary that tells the "untold story" of the band, who despite achieving global influence and legendary status, are difficult to categorise. Rock's mightiest anthems, and the tales surrounding them, tend to be continually replayed – and sometimes, their power fades over time. Since their 1968 formation, though, Led Zeppelin's legendary status, and mythology, has particularly endured. The British quartet – driven visionary guitarist/producer Jimmy Page, extravagantly swaggering vocalist Robert Plant, and the poetic powerhouse rhythm section of bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham – have remained instantly recognisable and globally influential, yet tricky to pin down. Their multi-million-selling catalogue is laced with blues, hard rock, folk fables, African, Asian and Latin grooves, macho bombast and avant-garde flair. They gained a rep for scandalous excess, while mostly shunning the press – but now Becoming Led Zeppelin, their first officially authorised documentary, promises to capture the band's "untold story" for posterity. This film's long-awaited cinema release follows a "work in progress" screening at the Venice Film Festival in 2021. Becoming Led Zeppelin also forms a natural progression for filmmakers Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty, following their award-winning 2017 doc series, American Epic, traced the history and impact of America's earliest roots music recordings. "We wanted to do a film that would pick up the next era," MacMahon tells the BBC. "Rather than looking at 100 acts, like we did with American Epic, we looked at whether there was one act that carried that music through from post-World War Two to the '60s and '70s, and were the embodiment of that final stage of 20th-Century music – and we realised it was Zeppelin." Getting Led Zeppelin's surviving members on board involved a meticulously fine-tuned pitch – but it was also pivotal that Page, Plant and Jones were fans of MacMahon and McGourty's previous work; American Epic documented their own musical heroes. "Becoming Led Zeppelin wouldn't have happened without American Epic," admits McMahon. Still, Plant warned the film-makers: "I don't think this film can be made, as we didn't do any TV, and Peter Grant [Led Zeppelin's formidable manager, who died in 1995] would eject audience members with cameras from the venues, rip out their film and smash their cameras, so there isn't any footage of our concerts from those years." In fact, Becoming Led Zeppelin features two hours of painstakingly sourced archive material, personal photos and performance footage (schoolboy Page playing in a skiffle band; teenage Jones as a church organist; both becoming accomplished session musicians on '60s pop hits) alongside individual new interviews from Page, Plant and Jones. Bonham's death in 1980 (from pulmonary aspiration after heavy drinking) would lead to the band's split – yet he is also surprisingly present here, sounding jovially down-to-earth on a previously unheard audio recording. As a child, MacMahon had "discovered" Led Zeppelin via a book charting the band's rise to fame. "It felt like the American Epic stories, in that it's very relatable: these are four kids, pursuing this dream, and trying to find their way through the music business," he grins. "I thought it was a wonderful, almost Arthurian story." This fantastical spirit is echoed in the film, when Page likens his guitar to Excalibur, the mythical sword. Music as a revelatory force While the "untold story" is steered by the band members' anecdotes, they're not strictly the easiest interviewees – though perhaps this perception is based on my own surreal experience interviewing Page and Plant, when I was a gauche young journalist; they cheerfully shrugged off questions while pouring me cups of tea. Ultimately, it is the music that really speaks volumes. Becoming Led Zeppelin pays testimony to music as a revelatory force, for both fans and performers; octogenarian Page is wide-eyed as he relates first hearing US R&B and soul ("It sounded like it was coming from Mars, even though it was coming from Memphis"). The artists' raw hunger and determination is palpable; we see Plant shape-shift through various looks (mod; "flower power" romantic) before assuming his unmistakeably lithe "rock deity" form in Led Zeppelin – and we watch the band play their hearts out, first commanding fans across Stateside gigs and radio, before their eventual triumphant 1970 "homecoming" show at London's Royal Albert Hall. "We used lots of cinematic techniques to take the viewer back in time," says McGourty. "And we use the song lyrics to propel you forward; when they go to Atlantic Records, we're hearing Your Time Is Going To Come; when Robert [Plant] talks about flying across America, we're hearing Ramble On; and when they're playing these early shows in Europe and nobody is really getting it, they're performing Communication Breakdown." More like this:• The band that soundtracked the US counterculture• The most blistering debut album of all time• How the Sex Pistols sparked outrage in Britain Indeed, there is brilliant early footage from a French TV show, Tous En Scene, where Led Zeppelin are riotously rocking in front of clearly nonplussed studio audience, comprising prim adults and children with their fingers in their ears. Later, we hear the inception of one of their most famous tracks, 1969's Whole Lotta Love (furiously catchy, despite Page's aversion to pop), and see extended performance clips including the 1970 Bath Festival – all incandescent, electric and floridly colourful. You get some sense of the intoxicating atmosphere that would even prompt cult novelist William Burroughs to liken a Led Zeppelin performance (in the US in 1975) to: "the trance music found in Morocco, which is magical in origin and purpose – that is, concerned with the evocation and control of spiritual forces." "If you're making a film about music, then music is the central character, and the viewers – particularly 100 years from now – have got to hear for themselves what this music is," says MacMahon. Music writer, Mojo magazine Contributing Editor, broadcaster and producer Phil Alexander has worked closely with Page, Plant and Jones, and points out why Led Zeppelin's "kinetic energy" remains vital: "Led Zeppelin are not best mates; it's really obvious in the film," Alexander tells the BBC. "Their camaraderie stems from being on stage, and playing off each other. That pure musicianship is what carries them as people – and what they create as a four-piece cannot be replicated. "If anybody across any generation listens to that band – especially now, when you can discover them at the click of a button – you fall into a world that doesn't look or sound like anything else. I think most bands of their generation sound like they are of a time; with Led Zeppelin, there is a nowness in how they are, musically. I don't know how many times I've listened to all their albums, and I still find things that make me think: did I hear that before?" Becoming Led Zeppelin vividly presents the band's origin story "in the moment"; events unfold chronologically, without hazy nostalgia or foreshadowing of what's to come. The "untold" tale is also undeniably incomplete; the film ends after the release of the band's second album, when they have scaled the heights of fame – and before things have spiralled into destructive hedonism. Despite Plant briefly mentioning "girls and drugs", the account feels unusually wholesome. It is a stark contrast to the tabloid accounts of their debauchery – most notoriously, the grimly salacious (which band members have repeatedly dissociated themselves from) band biography Hammer of the Gods, by Stephen Davis. This feels very deliberate; just as American Epic has been added to educational curricula in the US, Becoming Led Zeppelin is pitched at all ages – with the band not only preserving their legacy, but owning their narrative. "Despite all the things you've read about the '70s, you don't get to that place without being incredibly focused," says MacMahon. "The higher purpose of this film is to tell young people: if you have a passion, and you work hard at your craft and persevere, then you can achieve those dreams. You kind of pick up these lessons as you go on the journey with them. These are the only guys that knew and saw what was happening." Becoming Led Zeppelin is in UK cinemas and on limited release in the US now – it goes on wide release in the US on 14 Feb. -- For more Culture stories from the BBC, follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram.
Yahoo
06-02-2025
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'Jimmy Page arrived carrying a Waitrose bag. I thought he'd brought sandwiches with him'
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The arrival into existence of an official Led Zeppelin doc is, of course, sweet music to any of their lifelong fans. A peek behind the (probably velvet, most often flared) curtain, if you will, and a gawp at a band best known for being more than a bit bolshy evasive. Thus, you may suspect that conjuring up such a thing may have involved more than a little sweet-talking and careful negotiation. And you'd be right. And the makers of upcoming (and eagerly awaited) doco Becoming Led Zeppelin have, in a new, perhaps unintentionally hilarious interview, just described the hoops they had to go through in order to blow smoke in the band's… direction. Speaking to The Guardian, film-maker Bernard MacMahon and partner Allison McGourty describe not only the process of making the movie – featuring acres of rare, unseen footage and the band's reminiscences via a mass of memorabilia – but also the process of getting the alive, well and not-speaking-to-each-other protagonists to allow anything to happen at all. In fact, after self-financing their research and the project taking shape under their own steam, 'it was incredibly likely that once I put in a phone call, the group might say they were not interested. There was every chance we would not even get a meeting,' MacMahon explains. Nevertheless, MacMahon was able to summon Page into being, arranging a meeting at a London hotel where 'He arrived carrying a Waitrose bag. I thought he'd brought sandwiches with him,' MacMahon explains, but 'he had brought his old diaries, dating back to the 60s'. At the meeting MacMahon showed Page the storyboard so far – 'pictures but no words,' he explained – and began talking Page through it. Alighting upon the point where Page first meets Plant, the guitarist asked which band he was in at that point. 'Hobbstweedle,' replied MacMahon. 'Very good,' said Page. 'Carry on.' And after seven hours 'with a break for afternoon tea', Page was in: 'But you have to get the others on board.' Teasing in bass and keyboard player John Paul Jones also required some work and the conquering of a plain and simple 'not interested in a documentary' impasse. However, MacMahon and McGourty were able to win him over with a copy of their American Epic movie, (narrated by Robert Redford, no less) a documentary about the rise and results of blues, country and cajun back in the 1920s. 'Watch 15 minutes. If you don't want to talk to us after that, you won't hear from us again and that will be the end of the film,' gambled MacMahon. Jones rang back. He was in. American Epic also played a key part in getting Plant on board. He was a fan of American Epic and said as much to MacMahon and McGourty when they met him at a concert in Scotland. After two more meetings, he agreed to talk. As for John Bonham, given that the drummer's untimely death in 1980 ended the band's existence, the quest for new content was impossible. Nevertheless, via the discovery and preservation of archive interview tapes Bonham plays a key part in the new movie. 'Bonham acts as a narrator,' MacMahon explains. 'His interviews were recorded just after things had happened. Jimmy said in some ways he's the star of the film because he's in the moment.' Elsewhere in the interview, MacMahon explains the depth he and McGourty went to, finding archive footage and speaking to key side characters around the band's story. And, in what will be a fan-pleasing move, their decision to – unlike in most music documentaries – play many of the band's performances in full 'because they are meant to be heard that way'. And – typically – while the band won't be doing interviews to promote the movie's release, Page and Plant have, at least, issued statements confirming their approval. 'The energy of the story and power of the music is phenomenal,' says Page while Plant confirms that 'American Epic inspired me to contribute to a remarkable journey into the heart of the whirlwind.' Becoming Led Zeppelin opens in Imax theatres on 5 February, and in cinemas on 7 February.
The Independent
05-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
How Jimmy Page put Led Zeppelin documentary-makers through their paces
The filmmakers behind a new Led Zeppelin documentary have revealed how guitarist Jimmy Page put them to the test before agreeing to be involved in the project. Becoming Led Zeppelin, the first film to be approved by the storied rock band, documents their origins and rise to one of the biggest acts on the planet just two years after their debut tour. It is out now in UK IMAX screens before a non-IMAX release this weekend (8 February), including in the US and Canada. Speaking to The Guardian, British filmmaker Bernard MacMahon – known for his American Epic documentary about the first recordings of roots music in the United States – recalled his meeting with band founder and guitarist Jimmy Page. 'I wondered if he had brought sandwiches,' MacMahon said of the moment Page turned up to a London hotel in 2017, carrying Waitrose shopping bags. The filmmaker showed him a leather-bound book containing the storyboard and began talking about his idea for the film. Page apparently checked that MacMahon knew which band he was in when he met his future bandmate, Robert Plant. When MacMahon answered, 'Hobbstweedle', Page apparently remarked: 'Very good. Carry on.' Hours later, the Waitrose bags turned out to contain Page's old diaries dating back to the Sixties. He told MacMahon he was 'in' but he would have to convince the other band members, too. Page then invited MaMahon and his partner, Allison McGourty, to visit Pangbourne – the village where Page owned a riverside cottage and where rehearsals for the band's first album took place. Had MacMahon and McGourty declined, it emerged, they would have lost the film. 'It had been a test,' McGourty said, quoting Page: ''If you had said no to Pangbourne we wouldn't have done the film.'' This month marks the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin's sixth studio album, Physical Graffiti – the first record to be released under their new label, Swan Song Records. A critical and commercial success, Physical Graffiti debuted at No 1 on the UK albums chart and No 3 in the US, and was promoted with a US tour and five-night residency at Earl's Court in London, the latter which attracted a total audience of around 85,000 fans. ' Physical Graffiti was the first piece of Led Zeppelin product on our own label, the right album for the right time,' Page told The Independent in a 2015 interview, while marking the album's 40th anniversary. 'We had material that was left over from the fourth album and needed to be heard. 'Other people had done double albums and I was really keen to do a double showing all that we were capable of, from the sensitive guitar instrumentals through to the density of something like 'In the Light' and the urgency of something like 'In My Time of Dying'. Every track has its own character.' Of the band's legacy, he said: 'Some bands have done terrible things, some bands have done really good things, playing in the spirit of Led Zeppelin. You're only passing on the baton really. What does matter is that we've managed to make a difference and quite clearly Led Zeppelin's music did.'
