Led Zeppelin Documentary ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ Hits Netflix This Week, Featuring Exclusive Interviews and Rare Footage
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A Look Back at Rock History
Netflix is giving fans a closer look at one of the most well-known rock bands ever. Becoming Led Zeppelin, a new documentary featuring the band’s surviving members, will be available to stream starting Saturday, June 7.
The film includes in-depth interviews with Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones. Directors Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty led the conversations, helping the musicians reflect on their early years together. Fans will also get a rare look at the late drummer John Bonham through unseen footage and audio recordings.
Rare Insights and Unseen Clips
According to Sony Pictures Classics, “Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year—against all odds.” The film shows the band’s beginnings and how quickly they gained worldwide fame.
Led Zeppelin started in 1968, made up of Plant, Page, Jones, and Bonham. They ended the group in 1980 after Bonham’s unexpected passing. In just 12 years, they released eight albums. Their final album, Coda, came out in 1982 with songs that hadn’t been released before, along with some live tracks.
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Why This Film Stands Out
This documentary is the first time the band members have supported a full-length film about their story. Jimmy Page explained why he had held back for so long during a 2021 interview with Hey U Guys.
“All the documentaries I’d seen up until this one were really, really lightweight,” Page said. “They didn’t actually give any sort of perspective on what was happening with the music—why the music was what it was, why there was improvisation every night. That made us very different from everybody else. No, they missed all of it.”
He felt that earlier projects didn’t understand what made Led Zeppelin different. Their ability to change things during live shows and their focus on sound wasn’t something past documentaries had covered well.
Finding the Right Team
Page also shared why he trusted MacMahon and McGourty with the band’s story. He said they were the first to really understand what the band was about and how to present it.
“I had a lot of patience with Bernard and Allison when they were presenting the idea of what they wanted to do because it was so in line with the way that I thought about it, too … I’m so thrilled to be here now that they manifested exactly what they said they would do.”
Watch the full length trailer here:
