Check Out The Trailer For The First Authorised Led Zeppelin Documentary

It’s been years in the making, but we’ve now received the first trailer for the uppcoming Led Zeppelin documentary.

First announced back in 2019, the then-untitled Becoming Led Zeppelin was revealed to feature the participation of surviving band members Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, who had agreed to be interviewed for the project.

Directed by Bernard MacMahon, who had previously focused on US roots music for 2017’s American Epic, it’s the first authorised documentary about the band, with the group’s unprecedented access boding well for fans of the group.

“When I saw everything Bernard had done both visually and sonically on the remarkable achievement that is American Epic, I knew he would be qualified to tell our story,” Page said in 2019.

“The time was right for us to tell our own story for the first time in our own words, and I think that this film will really bring this story to life,” added Jones.

Following a standing ovation for a ten-minute work-in-progress screening in 2021, the documentary is finally nearing release, with an official trailer arriving ahead of its February release.

Soundtracked by the band’s 1969 classic Whole Lotta Love, the trailer features clips of the band in their heyday, along with modern interviews with the surviving members. Notably, it also includes previously-unheard archival interviews with the late John Bonham, whose 1980 passing was the impetus for the group’s breakup.

“The first time we played together, it was stunning,” Bonham says in the trailer. “It was like a gift from heaven, wasn’t it?”

News of the documentary’s trailer and impending release comes following last year’s revelation that the name of the previously-unidentified man on the cover of the group’s iconic Led Zeppelin IV had been discovered at long last.

The album cover of a man hunched over with a bundle of wood on his back is not a painting, as often mistaken, but a photograph. According to historical reports, Plant bought the print from an antique store near Page’s home in Pangbourne, Berkshire.

“Led Zeppelin created the soundtrack that has accompanied me since my teenage years, so I really hope the discovery of this Victorian photograph pleases and entertains Robert, Jimmy and John Paul [Jones],” said Brian Edwards, a researcher at the University of the West of England.

According to further research, the figure in the photo is believed to be Lot Long, who is sometimes referred to as Lot Longyear, a supposed widower at the time the photograph was taken. Long lived in a small cottage on Shaftesbury Road, Mere.