Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary gets release date and trailer

Led Zeppelin’s long-awaited documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin has finally received a release date for 2025.

The first-ever authorised film was initially unveiled in 2019, with director Bernard MacMahon helming the project following the success of his 2017 exploitation into United States roots music, American Epic.

Becoming Led Zeppelin features brand-new interviews with Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Robert, as well as rare archival interviews with the late drummer John Bonham, who died in 1980.

Now, it has been announced that over 200 cinemas will be screening the film in IMAX cinemas across the US and Canada on February 7 next year. An Ireland and UK release date has not yet been announced.

The project was initially taken to Cannes in 2019, at which point it was noted as being in the post-production phase.

“When I saw everything Bernard had done both visually and sonically on the remarkable achievement that is American Epic, I knew he would be qualified to tell our story,” Page said at the time.

Led Zeppelin ultimately split on Dec. 4, 1980 following the unexpected death of Bonham just months earlier. Now, almost 44 years to the day since their dissolution, the official trailer for the upcoming documentary has arrived, complete with previously-unheard archival interviews with Bonham himself.

Soundtracked by 1969’s “Whole Lotta Love”, the trailer features visuals of the band’s kaleidoscopic career, interspersed with recent interviews with surviving band members. “The first time we played together, it was stunning,” Bonham says at the end of the trailer. “It was like a gift from heaven, wasn’t it?”

Check out the trailer below: