Becoming Led Zeppelin will make its debut on Netflix on Saturday, June 7, according to a new listing on the streaming platform on Saturday.
Jimmy Page has thanked fans for their “humbling and inspiring” reaction to the new IMAX documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin fans have been flocking to see the film.
Page took to Instagram on Monday (February 17) to send his personal thanks for the film’s reception. “In light of your incredible responses and the demand for the Becoming Led Zeppelin film from those of you that have either viewed it at the IMAX or during its general cinema release, I must say that feedback from fans is just humbling and inspiring,” he wrote.
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The authorised film, which was first announced in 2019, was acquired for a cinema release by Sony Classics Pictures in a number of countries earlier this year.
A new film, Becoming Led Zeppelin, tells the story of how four spectacularly talented young men joined forces to become the greatest rock band the world.
It is worth making an effort to catch it in a cinema just for the sheer immensity of the sound that comes roaring out of the big speakers, a shuddering assault of electric blues that has lost none of its bone rattling, senses stirring power over the decades.
This is a story about the group’s origins as endorsed by the band members themselves, thus sidelining critical insights and objective perspectives, and cutting to the end credits before the tale really heats up.
It thus avoids addressing the nearly mythic destructive arc of a group whose immense power trailed controversy in its wake, setting a wildly decadent template for show business hedonism and (fairly or unfairly) imprinting the band with a reputation for Satanic darkness, sexual abuse and violent aggression, before ending in tragedy, drug addiction and death.
No mud sharks were harmed in the making of this film.
It followed a fishing expedition from the Edgewater Hotel in Seattle by drummer ‘Bonzo’ Bonham and the band’s notorious tour manager Richard Cole, in which a naked blonde “groupie” was apparently filmed writhing about in fish entrails, while Bonham performed sex acts upon her with the remains of a shark.
People who incurred the group’s displeasure were threatened or beaten up. Hotel rooms were trashed, women were subject to multiple humiliations. Page became a heroin addict with a rumoured taste for under-age girls. Bonham became a chronic alcoholic and cocaine abuser, with a reputation for unpredictable acts of violence.
In 2016, Genesis drummer Phil Collins says: “When Zeppelin get together, something bad happens. Bad karma.”
Watch the new full length official trailer for #BecomingLedZeppelin. After an exclusive IMAX release on February 5 & 6, the first ever authorised #LedZeppelin documentary will open in cinemas nationwide from February 7. Tickets on sale January 17. pic.twitter.com/TW3WxxsesU
— Sony Pictures UK 🎬 (@SonyPicturesUK) January 10, 2025
The documentary features new interviews with Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant, as well as rare archival interviews with the late John Bonham, who died in 1980.
Robert Plant tends to be quite rueful: “There was excess, there were adventures, there was all that stuff… so it was something to behold. But it went very quickly, now I think. And there was a lot of sobering stuff as well.”
Page has offered the unlikely defence that he spent most of those tours in his hotel room drinking tea. “There’s a lot of water under the bridge for everyone who survived that era. End of story.”
