{"id":31454,"date":"2025-02-14T15:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/becoming-led-zeppelin-filmmakers-focus-on-the-bands-origins-beginnings-are-always-the-most-interesting\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T15:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:03:05","slug":"becoming-led-zeppelin-filmmakers-focus-on-the-bands-origins-beginnings-are-always-the-most-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/becoming-led-zeppelin-filmmakers-focus-on-the-bands-origins-beginnings-are-always-the-most-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Becoming Led Zeppelin&#8217; filmmakers focus on the band\u2019s origins: \u2018Beginnings &#8230; are always the most interesting\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-13\/M_BecomingLedZeppelinPoster2_121924.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Sony Pictures Classic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The new documentary <em>Becoming Led Zeppelin<\/em> explores the formation of legendary rock band\u00a0<strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong>, up until the release of their 1969 sophomore album,\u00a0<em>Led Zeppelin II<\/em>. The filmmakers \u2014\u00a0<strong>Bernard MacMahon<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Allison McGourty <\/strong>\u2014\u00a0say there\u2019s a good reason why they wanted to stick to that era.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was always going to be the origin story,\u201d McGourty tells ABC Audio, \u201cbecause the beginnings of things are always the most interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film includes new interviews with the band&#8217;s three surviving members \u2014\u00a0<strong>Robert Plant<\/strong>, <strong>Jimmy Page<\/strong> and <strong>John Paul Jones<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 and MacMahon, the film&#8217;s director, says they\u00a0\u201cwere incredibly candid, once they agreed&#8221; to participate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are completely without guile, artifice or self-consciousness,\u201d he says. \u201cI mean, they&#8217;re literally talking to you the way that they talk to us privately when it was just us in a room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film also includes archival audio from the band\u2019s late drummer,\u00a0<strong>John Bonham<\/strong>, and MacMahon says he couldn\u2019t imagine making the film without it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLed Zeppelin, more than any other musical entity I&#8217;m aware of, you remove one of those people, [and] it wouldn&#8217;t have been Led Zeppelin and it wouldn&#8217;t have worked,\u201d he shares. \u201cSo if one of them was missing, I think the story for me could not have been told.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film also features full archival Led Zeppelin performances, with McGourty explaining, \u201cWe wanted it to be like something like the <em>Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em> that we loved, that you could go and see multiple times, like a real concert experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, the music&#8217;s absolutely incredible, so we&#8217;re giving the audience the music in the purest form possible,\u201d MacMahon adds. \u201cIt\u2019s like, if you did a film about Led Zeppelin and &#8230; you&#8217;re not showing the whole songs in the most powerful way possible, why are you making the movie?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. 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