Find out more about Becoming Led Zeppelin and watch the full-length trailer
It will be in cinemas next month
Last updated 28th Jan 2025
Three years after it premiered in Venice, it was revealed that the long-gestating Led Zeppelin documentary film Becoming Led Zeppelin is finally set to hit cinema screens. And now, the film officially has a UK release date, and fans will be happy to hear we don't have to wait long.
Along with releasing a full-length trailer, Sony Pictures has confirmed that Becoming Led Zeppelin will get an exclusive IMAX release on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2025, before hitting cinemas across the UK on Friday 7th February 2025.
Tickets to see the first-ever authorised Led Zeppelin documentary are now on sale. After a tantalising one-minute trailer premiered in December, a new full-length trailer clocking in at two minutes is available to watch below.
Watch the official Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary trailer:
The extended trailer features interviews with all three surviving members of Led Zeppelin – Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones – alongside various archive photos and footage of Led Zeppelin from their childhood through to their stadia-conquering prime.
The end of the clip sees John Paul Jones admit he never liked the Led Zeppelin band name, saying: “(I was told) ‘You’re going to be called Led Zeppelin.’ I thought ‘that’s a terrible name!’ But I couldn’t come up with a better one, so Led Zeppelin we were!”
About the Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary
A synopsis from Sony Pictures reads: ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds.
‘Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances, and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story.
‘The film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group.’
Directed by Bernard MacMahon, the officially-authorised Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary traces the formation and early years of the fabled rock British band.
A ‘work-in-progress’ version of Becoming Led Zeppelin premiered at the 78th Venice Film Festival to a rapturous reception - after first being announced in 2019 - however the project has seemingly been on ice ever since.
Set to feature Led Zeppelin performance footage from the Fillmore West, the Atlanta Pop Festival and the Texas Pop Festival in 1969, a previous Sony statement promised it would boast: "A brand-new sound mix (and) newly unearthed material from the archives of all four band members".
“We have spent years designing this film to be experienced on the big screen with the best possible sound,” Bernard McMahon commented.
Producer/co-writer Allison McGourty adds: “Sony Pictures Classics are the perfect partners because they are true believers in the theatrical experience and are passionate about giving the millions of Led Zeppelin fans a chance to see and hear them on the greatest screens and sound systems in the world.”
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