It will have taken the time but here it is: Becoming Led Zeppelinthe first documentary dubbed by the group, arrives on the big screen.
Chance rather than coincidence, Becoming Led Zeppelin And A Complete Unknownthe biopic devoted to Bob Dylan in which Timothée Chalamet offers breathtaking performance in the skin of Mr. Zimmerman, have this in common to have chosen to focus only on the first years of their respective subjects. A good way not to make too many dead ends or dark cuts when you have to synthesize longer periods? The admission that the beginnings of an artist are often the most interesting to tell?
From there, the two films quickly take different paths: where James Mangold takes the side of ignoring the childhood and adolescence of Dylan, Becoming Led Zeppelin In progress the cheerful ball. He even does one of his essential assets, to show how these different learning periods have built each of the group members musically, whether they are expressed via archives in a mess (such as known – unlike many others -, a barely 13 -year -old Jimmy page accompanying Lonnie Donegan on the frenzied skiff of “All Your Own” on a TV plateau) John Paul Jones explains how he became organist and choir child at 14 with, in mind, the idea of buying his first bass.
There was of course a certain logic to start the history of Led Zeppelin, precisely because there was a life before the “airship” for the components, one life in common sometimes and “two by two” to more than one occasion: page- Jones on one side on many recording sessions from 1964, starting with that of “Goldfinger” Bondian sung by Shirley Bassey; Robert Plant and John Bonham of the other, the first explaining how the second had approached him after a concert (“It's not bad, but you would be even better with a good drummer behind you”). Unless we prefer to retain the anecdote from essence siphoning interrupted by a police intervention and the scoring of Bonham to have to explain … his wife Pat, who summoned him not to hang out with this “Planty” which she considered a real catastrophe.
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