Becoming Led Zeppelin 4K 2025

It might seem like nothing new, nothing special, yet it’s always pure bliss—and every time it feels like a revelation—to watch them and listen to all three of their separate interviews: Jonesy (incredibly smart, unusually (for him) talkative, and, as always, heartbreakingly ironic), Paige (a magician and wizard, stunning every time as if for the first, with that not-too-strong-but-nevertheless-very-posh Surrey accent), Plant (The Golden God, the one and only—you could listen to him forever, and those eyes of his when Bonzo talks about him...) plus one previously unreleased audio interview with John Bonham.

Nevertheless, everything in Becoming Led Zep is incredibly special, and that’s always the case when it comes to Zep. This documentary covers the very earliest period (67—a bit of The Yardbirds—68) up to the legendary concert at The Royal Albert Hall on January 9 (James Patrick Page’s birthday) in 1970.

Stunning, seductive, perfect, as if stepped out of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, divinely talented, working themselves to the point of fainting—these four phenomenal boys shook this world “to its foundations, to its roots, to its very core” so thoroughly that it never returned to its original, ‘normal,’ pre-Zep state, because that is simply impossible.

They stole our hearts until the end of time. Their stunning music—both the 70s within the context of Zep and all the decades that followed: Percy Plant’s solo albums and numerous projects, Page/Plant, Page’s and Baldwin’s solo albums and projects...—has kept this world spinning (still) for nearly 60 years now, and that is a true blessing.