Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused (FULL MOVIE)

[Music] and you're just learn to be the guitar yes from a teacher you play anything except Schiphol yes Spanish in doubt do you well can you move ah we're gonna do your leave school hiccup Schiphol no did you well biological research what you want to do is - what research into into into germs yes [Applause] [Music] [Music] I let introduce Led Zeppelin to you a bass guitar John Paul Jones on drums John Bonham [Music] we could talk Jimmy Page [Music] myself brother plan I'm not Peter Pan and I don't want to strut around with a bare chest and hair down to my back that whole period was a period it was a lure to itself it was my early pioneer days for excess and I guess I've gone through the whole thing and come out of the other side with a smile on my face suddenly comes on ruckus apply I just believed in what I was doing I didn't take prisoners along the way really the whole thing about Led Zeppelin was it was so beautifully haphazard it was really real [Music] their music placed a trail across the world but few classic rock bands divide popular critical opinion as much as Led Zeppelin they were just a great band in every department there's no one out there like even if you didn't like the songs even if you didn't like the entire aura that surrounded them the hype and the nonsense and improving couldn't ignore the fact that these people were phenomenally gifted instrumentalists they knew about their industry we needed an enemy when punk came along and bands like Led Zeppelin were the perfect target this was actually a bit spinal tap 25-minute guitar solos that is exactly what we were against music corresponds to the drugs that was part music they were called maybe metal is a kind of excuse for thinking clearly about what music is everyone cause of the godfathers of metal they might be inspiration for it but they weren't making they were I never actually asked you what did he feel about the time to head to nation I suspect he would just think it's not Jimmy's is something that so you've been interested in for a long time sort of folk side of things because you're obviously normally associated with a role at different type of music which is what well hopefully rather heavier and rather more rocky than a photo here I think is all four years ago to it yeah if you'd listen to some of those that the instruments change [Music] this wasn't something which was just long bear drug rock'n'roll but this was serious music which you should take seriously [Music] combining the raw power and intensity of hard rock with the finesse of contemporary blues and the delicacy of British folk music Led Zeppelin's revolutionary sound redefined rock in the 1970s and all that followed [Music] [Applause] [Music] the great thing about Zeppelin's that it was black a huge sort of incredible one-night stand you know like everything you could wish for on on the first fantastic free date you know everything thrown in every sort of altercation and every lust and every swing and every bit of truth [Music] the legend has been dogged me all the way along the line but that's alright so I'm going to talk about who cares it all began on January 19 1943 in the black doubts heavily rationed England of the war years when James Patrick Paige was born in Heston Middlesex his initial aspirations of becoming a biological researcher were soon swept aside by his obvious talent for the guitar [Music] the origins of Led Zeppelin can be traced back to the early months of 1968 with the demise of one of the most prominent British blues bands [Applause] The Yardbirds were a part of the RMP boom they've got a really good reputation they were made up of of Keith Ralph and eric clapton and jim mccarty and paul samwell-smith and Chris Jagger and obviously became very famous here and in America because they had three of the biggest guitarists in the world Jimmy Page joined the arbors in mid 66 that's where he cut his teeth after leaving the sessions Jimmy was one of the finest and still is one of the finest guitarists in the world but he was one of the most used and most sought-after session guitarists on the same it's amazing some of the records that he's been on he was even on things like who records and he never credited probably playing with half the UK for a brief period Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were both in the yardbirds and that was as you can imagine double firepower [Applause] I met Jimmy Page through Eric Clapton and I'd known her Clapton since the yardbirds time so I was always trying to find out what they were doing from 1966 under the shrewd management of Peter Grant The Yardbirds had built a notable following in America the one thing that counted for them as they were big in the States The Yardbirds could tour in America and get big crowds in those days everybody saw the artists were for the manager in an America is like our Tsar's our heroes and people eat an awful they buy you they give you a percentage a money to do your very best [Music] but we did something like nine American tours or some phenomenal you know of tours that used to last for six to eight weeks and it wasn't until Peter managed us slide anything I think I ever came back with any money from an American tour [Music] by the late 1960s Peter grants had earned a reputation as a no-nonsense heavyweight manager he was totally untrustworthy I mean he was sort of this size you need a camera with not only wide-angle but high definition to even catch him he was so enormous and he was kind of totally physically overbearing and it's a bit light and he only he affected to being a cockney so when you were telephoned it's a bit like being telephoned by God you know you can automatically stood up to me you didn't tell me you got a front amount with that terribly being British and the right verbal they saw what I call verbal violence you know you don't actually I'm gonna do this to you but you intimidate them that's why that's the game intimidating them verbally and I realized that if you were British you could really do it because you could always out furball them anytime you wanted to you know they have a great thing i calling you power and listen towel I think I'm not your pal had a dresser II buy their address me like that I hardly know you wretched little man you know anything [ __ ] you know what's that all about they've never heard anything like [Music] The Yardbirds got left behind when the purest R&B boom was giving way to the psychedelic thing coming from America but eventually they fell apart what was seemingly an end turned out to be the beginning [Music] when the yardbirds disintegrated Jimmy took over the idea of doing another band and he originally called what became Led Zeppelin the new Yardbirds Jimmy Page was already playing Dazed and Confused in the yardbirds with the old lineup so you was obviously hatching something a lot different from the pop direction that the Albert's going into I remember I was with him and we're driving down those shastri opening somewhere one day and that's what are you gonna do you know your little break sessions old form a new band and said well I'm gonna get a new band to go you know so the Air Force and I said fine notice how we saw him walk in see some UCP came loads of you [Music] exactly what what I wanted to try and get together and then it was just a matter of searching around for the right personnel that could could pull it off by then I mean you know for the sort of work that I'd managed to expand around the yardbirds material because there was a lot of areas in their physician and I'd come up with a lot of issues of my own and ideas and you know passages and movements and things through the sessions he'd met John Paul Jones it was respected multi-instrumentalist really specializing in bass but he could play keyboards and everything so he came in Jonesy called me up and said oh you're getting a band together he said we like to be part of it and obviously we knew each other from the session great keyboard player great bass player great intuition did a lot of things that you you wouldn't actually immediately recognize honor on a Zeppelin record but a lot of his arrangements and a lot of the sounds and the keyboard things that work and went on and a lot to do it job you always have to have the quiet one but I think he was very essential apartment of fact he was a brilliant bass player if you hear his his bass playing on dazed and confused just makes the track the is that finger walking kind of style the later would be introducing other sounds like Metatron's since you know he'd wasn't just a guy at the back playing bass it added a lot color with a bassist on board Jimmy now leading a frontman I want to say only could really bail out the bruising well rock rock clearly the blues but also be able to hurl the other well you know the subtleties as well so it needed something need a really really good vocal range impaired first of all he'd asked a guy called Terry Reid who turned him down because at that time he had a solo contract and a solo album coming out so he wasn't gonna throw in his lot with you know this new band which she's forever known as the bloke who turned down Led Zeppelin Paige found his man in Robert Plant one of my team you know let me I was fed up but fixing the roads and working on a Saturday and a Sunday you know I mean it was nice to meet anybody and when I heard him play it was such a celebration it was great he somebody who could play the blues with an attitude that wasn't just black [Music] London art school that kind of attitude aggressive angular thick ears one of the finest vocalists to have come out of this country he's probably one of the finest vocalists in the world my parents wanted me to go into a profession but I was already sold on music and there was a terrible impasse for quite a long time between us but I knew had to do this you know I mean it sounds very romantic man because I could be selling cars in Walsall really yeah I just have to do it when you hear those voices crackling off the jukebox in some kind of smoky black-and-white cafe in 1962 you want to know where that's coming from what it's like in that game and I'm in it so I got that you know I always thought he sounded best on the acoustic stuff because then it was revealed that he wasn't just a screamer he had a really good voice plant of course is the showman but Jimmy had a way I noticed this frequently when in the heyday of when he thought plant was going on a bit he'd suddenly start playing cutting him short in the nicest possible way and done so perfectly that nobody would notice the same with Bonham I mean whimsy gonna stop we were just very keen very eager and very driven and and very I guess full of it you know we're particularly bombastic long term myself and so yeah we were determined to the almost to the degree of nausea in our companions you know it was great we were just meant to be going somewhere [Music] [Applause] drummer wise there were a few tried out I think Jimmy had the sound in his head he wanted to carry on playing blues based stuff but he wanted to have this real hard rock edge essentially a new sound although I had in mind a very powerful drummer you know I wasn't ready for John Bonham I must say he was beyond the realms of anything that I could possibly have imagined you know it's absolutely phenomenal he was stunning I mean I think each individual member of Zed Zeppelin could have shown in any band they were that good you know and John was an amazing drummer he had power I mean immense power I mean the the way kit the kit was phenomenal and then the Hendrix one night coming up to Bonzo in a club in New York and in those days everybody used to jam it as a place called Steve Paul seemed it was Buddy Miles and Hendrix Beck I was loads of us me Rod Stewart people all over the place and he came over two buns and he said you know he said you got a foot like a rabbit because Bonzo's bass drum was so and we used to take the mickey out of people use double bass drums because Bonzo just sit much you want to for without bonds of the band wouldn't have meant anything at all sure I mean he was a the emulsifying agent he was everything he was a whole core of the thing he was the guy who stopped at being just another rock band really at least in its performance the writing a big Jimi's approach it was so unique and he's so unique but I mean Bonzo's whole delivery was the thing that made it what it is Jimmy Page is the man who made that group work not because he's just a great guitarist because he is but he is he is the one who really had a sense of a musical discipline I don't really believe rock bands are democracies I think rock bands are led by one or two people the family atmosphere was very very important and you always have one member of the family who's slightly stronger than the other and says I think we should do this route that I think Jimmy would would be the person they look to but the other two will hate me for saying that but that doesn't matter that that's my view I think that Jimmy was the musical intelligence which guided it along the group's first rehearsal was in a London basement with first played together in a small room in Gerrard Street in a basement room in what is now Chinatown and it was just wall-to-wall amplifiers and actually ass Marshall was sort of there's a space for the door and that was it and initially jesse was looking at each other's well should we play so there was an old dr birds number called the train kept a-rollin which jimmy said well whose chest light is Heaney and you go down and don't get there David if you're doing digging right so good Wow the whole woman just exploded you know silly grins and how is it bad you know it was pretty bloody obvious actually it was gonna work from the first number the first gig that the lineup played was October the 18th 968 at the Marquee they were billed as the new Yardbirds and it's one eyewitness account where the guy felt a bit shortchanged because it was only yacht one Yardbird on stage but then like one song in he didn't care even though they're so good everything was going and flying up in all directions it was lots of tangents musically well I started developing the use of my voice to match him with what Jimmy was doing with the guitar [Music] the great thing about early concerts that my venture was that it was perfectly clear that the other three were trying to individually play the other straight off the stage anything you can do me I can do much better which of course is the kind of tension musically in in groups which are greater improvising you need I mean basically I'm a rock and roll singer my early days are based on the hips of Billy Fury you know and the voice of Elvis so to get this far down the line by taking these curves it's quite exciting [Music] Peter Grant's attempts to book the band on a tour of English clubs was met with total indifference I think it was the yardbirds stigma people thought it was confusing the transition there was a sort of stigma that The Yardbirds had burnt out so this band couldn't be that good [Music] they were rubbished the record companies couldn't figure out what the hell all this rubbish was because I mean the idea of a white middle-class lad singing about the impoverishment of Delta blues is totally absurd so you you're not dealing with something which is pure the idea of blues and purity sung by white middle-class kids however skillful they are technically is it nonsense they're creating something of themselves and something which is meaningful to them [Music] what we would call R&B now is not what we call R&B noxious it was genuinely rhythm and blues and they were one of the forerunners when you hear Robert Plant performer song when you believe it you never doubt that that's Robert Plant really trying to tell us something about him you never doubt that that's Jimmy playing his heart huh what he did was interpret blues rock blues in a more aggressive tough away with more power and more passion that was Jimmy's idea he felt that you could play louder with more fight more balls they like cream had managed to combine something which was instantly appealing in the way that all great popular music is instantly connecting back to blues of a very hard specific variety and yet was trundling off at great rate in a new direction Jimmy Page had found his sound but he still needed to lose the yardbirds stigma they decided to change the name they were nearly called the whoopie cushion which obviously got discounted and then there was talk about a supergroup with Keith Moon and John Entwistle and all that bunch I think it was Entwistle said you know if we did that go down like a lead balloon or a Led Zeppelin so that's how they they thought all right we'll call ourselves out but the weird thing about them was they didn't set the place on fire when they first started they had a hard time they didn't make any effort to endear themselves to the British musical press they quite quickly understood that this kind of music and this kind of improvisatory related to the deep south in the United States music would find its feet in the United States which is exactly what happened in 1968 Peter grant left England with a mission to secure a world distribution deal the Americas were all the money is I mean that's where the huge crowds are the UK is great but if really if the UK are gonna be sagging you off every week yeah I mean he just felt the general vibe over here wasn't receptive to them and in the end they went to an American record label that label was Atlantic Records rock'n'roll is a direct outgrowth from the blues and from rhythm and blues and all those great English guitar players like Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page were heavily heavily influenced by the Blues your noise cold down here babies cold on yeah I'm article is one of the few people that immediately got it he actually got it Armin and his brother Ness we were legends of the music chemistry and they used to go into these black clubs and they they were move by the music rhythm and blues and a lot of these songs some songs that were saying by the slaves and the plantation so what they did is they took dad's money and they opened up a record label called Atlantic which was basically a black Lorren B record label and they start branching it out where they start taking in white artists they moved into England and they started bringing the English Axl and Led Zeppelin became a very natural band for omits to want and to insist on having our net hurt again gave them $200,000 which was huge for that time I was not the biggest deal anyone had ever got [Music] we did almost everything on a handshake we would eventually formalize it by contract but once we made a deal verbal deal there was a deal signed in blood arise he had this confidence he exuded their confidence about he knew he had the best bang and so all you gotta do is give me the best deal that you woke somebody else will when you're dealing with artists and musicians you copy their 24 and you hold it like you're selling you're selling these glasses and then they sell [ __ ] you know you put it on the shelf and forget it you know tomorrow ourselves 50 cases of glasses we can't do that you've got to be there for your artist you're gonna believe in your art and you gotta be there for them Led Zeppelin arrived at the end of the 1960's but they already sounded like the future a new era had begun but it wasn't until we play that I think it was a film that suddenly we went in righted that must have going right at the right time they did the first gig in America in December 68 and it built and built and built [Music] the group's debut album Led Zeppelin was recorded in 1968 at London's Olympic studios it turned rock-and-roll on its head [Music] now I had an idea of what exactly what I wanted to do with the first album in the band I wanted to make music which was really that people would respect and I knew it was good but I haven't got the faintest idea that it was ever gonna become as big as what it did obviously I mean and Brian even thought all I wished it to I think the only thing I wanted to do was to do something which which could stand the test of time [Music] we just planned something that might to be very careful of this thing that we'd found because we might lose it but it was remarkable just the power and I was very intimidated I don't know I mean that maybe I had a complex or maybe I was just neurotic Wars paranoid or something like that but I thought this is all too much am I really here do I belong in this sketch and so really that the record feels like that for me for my contribution but it really as a as a collection of tubes in a way to play and expand it was great sound just kind of exploded in every direction you couldn't predict it in any given song what it was going to do where it was going that was what was so exciting I mean this was a real adventure musically there's a lot of contrast on the album and that's one of the things that I really wanted to get together which I didn't think anyone else was doing then that's and that was the but then again you know that's the way shaped up but fortunately change other way that I hoped it was going to this one was unlike anything you'd heard before because it was for a start rude it was great I mean no one had gone that far no one had really taken that essence of the Blues the stones have obviously been doing it for years but they'd somehow blown it up this was like pin you against the warm stuff I came to write the very first review about Led Zeppelin I mean I just said you know this is absolutely the successor to cream these are formidable musicians and it definitely helped to get them off the ground I know because early on it was very frequently quoted from [Music] younger people don't realize hot latte out isn't their own writing he chose very well the songs to cover all the things that Jimmy did on that first album he made them interceptors they worship how many more times was a bit naughty because it was actually how many more years by Howlin wolf say melody and everything except they've just touched a few words and it was called how many more times and given like a super child for it I mean you shocked me had already been on Jeff Beck's album and that was an awkwardly Dixon song but it would appear on the sleeve try a traditional arranged by Led Zeppelin the stones had done that too with Robert Johnson it was a common thing to take some old blues guys song he didn't rip him off but he definitely borrowed from the Muddy Waters in that first album [Applause] [Music] through rigorous touring and word-of-mouth Led Zeppelin will rapidly raise to Olympian Heights you want to saw a second concert who wouldn't hear the album you would hear a version of them and that's what made you so brilliant Jimmy solos were close but maybe they weren't the same Robert singing was with maybe the same maybe it wasn't you would actually be invited to another version of it it's greats like seeing a film with three different endings their gigs were very much rituals [Music] led zeppelin reached instantaneous fame despite the almost universal negativity of the press and the critics were lukewarm but we we play a storm we had choose right three times around the block and stuff like that planets small clubs he was being it was real hot the British musical press loved nothing more than to destroy anybody it thought it had created now and the resilient examples of that what was difficult for them about their Zeppelin was they hadn't created Led Zeppelin [Music] they got slacked off as being brainless sometimes they would lump them in in a kind of Black Sabbath role the press at that time was very odd when the press don't drive a trend or a fashion an idea they feel like they're having to follow and the power moves from the media onto the band and the band decide who who they're going to have interviews with and who they're going to talk to the media don't like that we I'm talking about the general popular music press we didn't make them we're not responsible who are these guys you know did they pay us to write about them nicely I what I've just said is totally libelous but it's absolutely true you won't find a rock journalist now that would ever say anything bad about that [Music] where I give them credit is because they didn't put out a single they never became over commercialized they didn't really singles cause they felt the albums were supposed to be an entity listened to from beginning to end the record company over here made the mistake of actually pressing up and releasing a single burst soon as Peter grant got wind of that he clamped down on it to us it was like you know taking away a very important tool in breaking a group but we were not allowed to put out singles he did not want them to appear on television which made it was a very tough to promote they didn't do anything the the right way during 1969 while on the road the band recorded their second album Led Zeppelin - it was that second album that did it that's the one that really broke them in in the UK a whole lot of love and that was a track where it all kicked off I remember when that came out I mean it was unlike anything else they've been there were heavy metal sounding tracks but not like that then you've got you know the orgasm bit halfway through [Applause] and that was on the jukebox in my local pub you know you walk in and that section it be on and there would be almost like sitting around drinking with that going over it was startling [Applause] [Music] by 1973 under the management's of pizza grant Led Zeppelin were breaking box-office records what are the problems about all rock and roll groups of that era yes finding someone they could trust as their manager it was chaos they needed someone to hold their hand what Peter granted particles of his size which one should never be underestimated was he gave them a feeling of security he was someone who would get them through whatever problems came along and of course there are legions of problems you know if you've got a cash cow group called Led Zeppelin you've got record companies it's mostly run by criminals and half-wits and certainly gangsters probably the Mafia you've got to be protected against these awful people who is going to protect you then you've got every promoter in every city that you are going to who is damn certainly going to rip you off so again you need a kind of strong man who's gonna say give me the money now as soon as we found out you you stop why will they tell everybody else then you gonna respond sectioning you rented a new controller isn't selling [ __ ] posters you to the music and I'll take care everything else the wreck okay promoters I mean that's what a manager does but it really was that sort of division don't even think about anything else I won't bother with anything else no I'll tell you what you know watch what's possible what you can do there's nothing but you just take care of the music take her the band and you know you ain't happy wherever I saw Peter Grant with one particular promoter he was going to kill him and he said I want the money now and he made the promoter go and get the cash and he counted it in front of him I watched Peter been doing it and that was really awesome to see awesome is the right word for once no I said I've come as a thousand Thomas you owe me he said you're not kidding me I said we ain't leaving his Caravan now without you don't give me that thousand dollars need for instance people involved on there you know I said I don't care what she got he got a purse that's Helen Thomas yeah I'm gonna show you I said I very much for the you gonna shoot me for sales and dollar that me so [ __ ] cheap whether they liked him or not I don't know whether they trusted him on what I don't know they knew then that he did very silly things with their money but all managers did very silly things with their money a lot of managers in those days didn't discuss money with their artists not necessarily because they were ripping them off or whatever but they themselves were very naive they didn't understand the business themselves I mean they didn't understand that the way the Americans worked or the transportation costs or the taxes of withholding taxes he'd do anything for that band he was one of the first artists driven managers you know I mean how he would stand up today who knows but as far as I was concerned his his benchmark was he fought for the artists use brilliant in how to present the band and he'd say don't do this you know don't do that or we ought to go here but then we you know won't go there and then Ben will now we'll go and I think it's a good time for this he that was how he operated with us throughout their musical career Led Zeppelin were dogs by a roguish reputation it was the ultimate rock-and-roll excess they used to hide the part this Boeing 7 - OH jet cost him like $30,000 it was all decked out I had a bed in the back there was like there the woman on the tour for the sole purpose of dishing out coke this was someone on the payroll we did have four teas the brain like a musician though they get up at midday whatever toiling care and the whole day is built up to like they hate the [ __ ] sony says the house lights go out and it's Led Zeppelin and the concert goes like I said a whole day's a build from getting up and you just come and go off at the end of the morning Kenyon go get you know Agatha Christie or something you come in till then [Music] in a pretty common place and most bands on the road I'm surprised we got quite I mean the home who you see is explosive you know how do we get them the red it's pretty universal we went some pretty awful hotels to be honest you never recognize hotel and after a while they used to get so that the manager would actually put you in rooms that needed redecorating so that he would get them paid for John Bonham is just like it was on the Furman account of club 1821 holiday is it was that kind of excess with a great deal of wreckage bombings I was on a rampage one day and he smashed everything he even got the security into helping smash the pool table cause he couldn't do it on his own oh and the you know forward checking out they came up and the guy Anton to be English and he's looking at all the damage and he said the Banzai kind of looking down his nose even very smugly oh you left the mirror once is that dinner I'm sorry about I feel awful smash distrait and you know I mean there was absolutely they were absolutely demolished if they were done but I mean it wasn't every night we went to pay the bill the manager asked about all the damage was that would just give us a bill for the damage so they paid me for the damage and he was laying like seething and Peter said that you've been paid for the damage you said you know Washington what's the big deal and he says not nice it it's just think you guys can do what you want he said she said she said it I like working this hotel he said I hate is I'd love to do what you do he said pick a room and give me the bill and he did the guy read down through everything out the window smashed the windows and gave us the bill they'd have got the cash out that was it [Music] but there are differing opinions on the legendary tales of rock and roll excess I was telephoned by a Peter grant he said well you know the lights are going on - and we want you to come on tour in the plane and we want you for at least three months then very slowly the truth image Jimmy was not wanting to go on - and he was dreading it because life on the road is not a great deal of fun I mean it's an unforgettable experience for me for all kinds of reasons not the least of which was it's almost impossible to imagine for people who've just performed before 50 60 70 thousand people coming off stage what do you see totally exhausted they don't want to see anybody particularly they don't want to talk to anybody they're not interested in the group is they're not interested in all this mountain of food that the good promoter has laid out they just want to sit very quietly they don't want to get drunk or get drugged sit very quietly and maybe read a book read a newspaper and have a cup of tea I remember Jimmy was ordering cups of tea and go home to bed and it wasn't that I was kind of expecting late night parties as it were it never crossed their mind that there would be a late night party they were like Peter grant stories that was all part of the great big Zeppelin me and that was brilliant because it was the forerunner of what McLaren did with the pistols you know it was good copyright and and you know something when we read the enemy or the Melody Maker in those days or all the Rolling Stone and you hear the stories about the band or tweet I'd love to be doing that myself that's fantastic the neatest was Robert Plant I mean everything beautifully neatly laid out John Porter little photographs of his wife and children suddenly you saw four wonderful musician didn't really want to have anything to do with this kind of mad circus which surrounded them although they knew that paid their wages and they were committed to it [Music] for the composition of the 1970 album Led Zeppelin 3 Jimmy Page and Robert Plant retired to a remote cottage in Wales the result was a more acoustic sound depth 3 was you know poor band written one way or another you know so that's the difference immediately but I don't know that we really did attempt to break the mold of the previous Zeppelin albums to make some to create something as diverse as possible to really I suppose to try and achieve you know to try and broaden what we could do it's a long time ago I mean I was gonna need about 20 21 22 then but I just see the kind of combination of electric and acoustic and you know this sort of posture all mixed with spook has been a great you know - it's a great dynamic for a collection of songs the third album got saved off a bit for having this predominantly acoustic mood but I thought that was a good move because it didn't typecast them as a hard rock band and then when they came out with the fourth album which was the monster that made it all the more of a peak Led Zeppelin for was the band's most musically diverse release it was to become one of the best-selling albums in rock history Black Dog and rock and roll I mean they still sound incredible for their locomotive unstoppable power they're the quintessential hard rocking Led Zeppelin songs that would have been enough to establish them back on that level but the album also had stairway to heaven the idea of what I had there was to start it with this this acoustic piece and then and then for it to build us up an adrenaline rush by me and and so fatigue actually gets faster from beginning to end he gets four it increases in tempo by 1975 Led Zeppelin have become the most commercially successful rock band in the world for millions of fans they would come to epitomize that 1970s like no one else [Applause] let's open now was so huge they were kind of like part of the furniture if you were cool and you were happening you love letter as the audience got bigger and the album sold more you knew what to expect and then it was real fervent worship [Music] the biggest gig ever was 73 in Tampa Florida they played to 56,000 hit the record books they really were beyond huge in America in those days there wasn't a massive pyrotechnics there wasn't a massive light shows it was just purely the band with some good lights and it just goes to show how powerful that fan world the pinnacle where that whereby they they didn't need to prove anything to anybody they didn't need to prove commercial success they didn't need to prove themselves musically those accolades had come progressively over the years they didn't need to prove anything so when you get to that point then actually you become somebody totally different [Music] the 1975 double album Physical Graffiti gave full rein to the quartet diverse interests sellout appearances in the UK followed its release but rehearsals for a world tour were abandoned when Robert Plant sustained multiple injuries in a car accident around 76 the cracks were starting to show Jimi was starting to get into hard drugs and Bonzo was blight a total alkie if your drummer to be permanently pissed it's not good it's like your engine rooms gonna pack up and you know one gig he collapsed our way through the set and had to be carted off so let's Apple in with Cena's his huge band but they were treading water and things weren't going very well they'd lost their kind of untouchable God status by 1977 Led Zeppelin began their rescheduled us tour then Robert Plant had suffered a terrible tragedy when his son died from an infection by that time his family meant a lot more to him than all that rock star stuff anyway he was a family man really and Nevison awful tragedy the remaining dates were immediately canceled amid speculation the band would break up as Led Zeppelin took a backseat the UK was shaken by the arrival of Punk [Music] Punk totally altered the perception what BAM could be let's have been did look like old dinosaurs and they were then relegated to being a band with huge following but in the manner of you know people guns the Iron Maiden [Music] September 1918 Led Zeppelin were rehearsing at Jimmy Page's UK home in preparation for an American tour when the tragic death of John Bonham brought the 12 year reign of Led Zeppelin to an end [Music] apparently he got up and had four quadruple vodkas could he die he demanded they stopped off for breakfast on the way to the rehearsal and breakfast was ham roll and four quadruple vodkas and he carried on drinking all day and that evening was sort of put to sleep and he choked on his own vomit we were just rehearsing for a tour to go to America I think tickets had been sold even so whatever had gone on would have been put aside and you know already - it's ready to go again bottom died then something went but they'd really effectively stopped playing but that was one reason why they couldn't really play anymore because they were all you know they were all part of the same family but the demise of set Led Zeppelin was pure and simply the death of John Bonham they would never really get over it that was at the epicenter no Dean really knew what to do and I didn't want to join another band I mean after Zeppelin it's pretty hard act to follow [Music] during the following decades Jimmy Page and Robert Plant's renewed their longtime partnership for several projects some of which by their own admission were shambolic when Led Zeppelin ceased it didn't mean so I couldn't sing anymore just meant to say that I couldn't sing in that set of circumstances in 1994 Robert Plant received an invitation from MTV to play on the network's unplugged series the invited page to share the stage with him John Paul Jones however was excluded I read about any papers to be brutally frank I don't really know I mean you know what I'd have done had they'd have asked I don't know but they didn't so when a good luck to him but I don't really know much about I don't know anything about the product project except what I've read whether people like it or not it's happening it's pretty sharp it's pretty vile it's quite reflective and it's cheap [Applause] and main concern was if we could sing songs from the past we should create songs for the future and that's a singer and a guitarist we have a lot of affinity in the past and and that we should we should make it our mutual jewel project in 2007 39 years after their first rehearsal Led Zeppelin reunited for a one-off performance at London's o2 arena a reported half a billion fans attempted to purchase tickets they're doing this one-off concert in memory of arm turns again I believe and have all sworn not sure 100 percent believe it or not they're not gonna kill him too and I'm hoping to get tickets I'll go I'm not a huge fan of some of the nostalgia tours I mean they're very talented people you know they all know how to play their instruments you know whether Robert can sing the same as he used to sing back then I mean he's about 60 so I would think it'd be hard going for him good scary it's nice to be a soul able to have in an app the surviving members of Led Zeppelin were joined by John Bonham's son Jason on drums and I spoke to Robert about it just recently because we hadn't spoken since the announcement and I said how do you feel and I'm a little overwhelmed and kind of just can't comprehend the size of the the people the interest is something that I did such a long time ago is still held so highly by so many it's very very humbling he said so it is it shocked him I think Jimmy always thought that they were the size they were but this is really documented it so thanks to everybody it's my mom was in tears when she you know the announcement said thanks to the support it was just so spellbinding and it was partly fearsome terrible is a good word you know it was great because it did work and it was real and it was true I thought that we'd be castigated no matter how good we were Zeppelin I think in the end couldn't resist the question which was frequently put to them as good as that the problem with the musicians is there forever chasing their ghost they can never be what they once were all of a sudden it they're worried about their banker they're worried about how they're gonna pay this mortgage they're worried about this and that and it's all related to being boxed in and an artist has no boxes an artist just sees and it opens up to them and what money does and bankers do see own you ended with shutters on your dreams I will be very surprised if they take up the offer for 100 million or whatever it is to do a tour I don't think that will happen Robert Vaughn has been very dignified and gracious about all this he can't go on there and be the viking sex God every night he said he'd feel silly doing that well I am retired this is retiring compared to what I used to have a soft army jeans and I was all over the place now I take this as being early retirement okay thank you a voice broke for a second men they were an amazing band with great players and great songs and that is their legacy those songs cut above pretty well anything that was done at that time there's no one out there like them everyone's been trying you know for years to do it I can hear Led Zeppelin in bands from the most extreme American hardcore outfits to be below what Jack white gets up to they are a great example of longevity those albums they've made unlike a Picasso they are there forever Led Zeppelin were indisputably the greatest rock band in the world and probably still are thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]

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Keywords: Led, Zeppelin, ledzeppelin, movie, led zeppelin, robert plant, jimmy page, john paul jones, john bonham, full movie, full documentary, full film, full stream, free movie, free documentary, free film, free stream, 1091, on demand

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Length: 56min 50sec (3410 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 11 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Lisa_Leubner]

They couldn't get the real music, but otherwise pretty good

[u/xzackt]

Did they dissect Kashmir?