{"id":2443916,"date":"2019-05-08T07:16:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=832748"},"modified":"2019-05-08T07:16:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:16:44","slug":"led-zeppelin-documentary-to-feature-robert-plant-jimmy-page-john-paul-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/led-zeppelin-documentary-to-feature-robert-plant-jimmy-page-john-paul-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Led Zeppelin Documentary to Feature Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shutterstock_36041aa.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/led-zeppelin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_led-zeppelin\" data-tag=\"led-zeppelin\">Led Zeppelin<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/robert-plant\/\" id=\"auto-tag_robert-plant\" data-tag=\"robert-plant\">Robert Plant<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-page\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-page\" data-tag=\"jimmy-page\">Jimmy Page<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/john-paul-jones\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-paul-jones\" data-tag=\"john-paul-jones\">John Paul Jones<\/a> have participated in a new documentary celebrating the band\u2019s 50th anniversary. The three surviving members filmed new interviews for director Bernard MacMahon\u2019s (<em>American Epic<\/em>) as-yet-untitled project, which is currently in post-production and will be shopped at the Cannes Film Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The movie \u2014 the first ever to feature the iconic hard rock group\u2019s participation \u2014 also includes rare archival interviews with late drummer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/john-bonham\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-bonham\" data-tag=\"john-bonham\">John Bonham<\/a>, previously unseen film and photographs, interviews with other artists and high-quality audio transfers of the band\u2019s music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Plant and Page praised MacMahon\u2019s work on <em>American Epic<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/american-epic-inside-jack-white-and-friends-obsessive-roots-music-doc-128753\/\">the Emmy-nominated 2017 documentary<\/a> that chronicled the early American roots music recordings of the 1920s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhen I saw everything Bernard had done both visually and sonically on the remarkable achievement that is <em>American Epic<\/em>, I knew he would be qualified to tell our story,\u201d Page said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/film\/global\/cannes-bernard-macmahon-led-zeppelin-feature-documentary-altitude-1203208613\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a>). Plant added, \u201cSeeing Will Shade, and so many other important early American musicians, brought to life on the big screen in <em>American Epic<\/em> inspired me to contribute to a very interesting and exciting story.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jones noted, \u201cThe time was right for us to tell our own story for the first time in our own words, and I think that this film will really bring this story to life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Led Zeppelin released their seminal, self-titled debut LP in January 1969. The band recently marked the anniversary by teaming with Vans for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/vans-led-zeppelin-collection-shop-online-796601\/\">limited-edition line of footwear and apparel<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/led-zeppelin-documentary-robert-plant-jimmy-page-john-paul-jones-832748\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Led Zeppelin\u2019s Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones have participated in a new documentary celebrating the band\u2019s 50th anniversary. The three surviving members filmed new interviews for director Bernard MacMahon\u2019s (American Epic) as-yet-untitled project, which is currently in post-production and will be shopped at the Cannes Film Festival. The movie \u2014 the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 17:45:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}