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Since late 1969, Led Zeppelin had been planning on filming one of their live performances for a projected movie documentary of the band. The group's manager, Peter Grant, believed that they would be better served by the big screen than by television, because he regarded the sound quality of the latter as unsatisfactory.
His most commercially successful work was the Led Zeppelin concert film The Song Remains the Same (1976). Clifton was born in Sydney and had experience in music film production prior to his involvement with Led Zeppelin, having made a 30-minute cinema short about Australian band The Easybeats ' tour of England in 1967, called Somewhere Between ...
Their 1969 debut, Led Zeppelin, was a top-ten album in several countries and features such tracks as "Good Times Bad Times", "Dazed and Confused" and "Communication Breakdown". Led Zeppelin II (1969), their first number-one album, includes "Whole Lotta Love" and "Ramble On". In 1970, they released Led Zeppelin III which opens with "Immigrant Song".
For a band that’s now thought of as the Beatles of heavy metal, not to mention one of the four or five greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands of all time, Led Zeppelin got shockingly little critical ...
Becoming Led Zeppelin is a forthcoming documentary film directed by Bernard MacMahon which charts the formation and early years of Led Zeppelin. [2] The film is an independent production made with the full co-operation of the band [3] and represents the first time Led Zeppelin have agreed to participate in a biographical documentary. [4]
In 1977, during Led Zeppelin's US tour, their five-year-old son, Karac, died of a stomach illness. [109] The song "All My Love", co-written with John Paul Jones, is a tribute to him. [110] The couple divorced in August 1983. In 1991, Plant and Shirley Wilson (sister of ex-wife Maureen) had a son, Jesse Lee. [108]
Led Zeppelin members (left - right) John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant pose in front of their private airliner The Starship in 1973. - Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Although all the musicians remained with their respective bands, Page recalled the conversation in 1968 when deciding on the name for Led Zeppelin. "Beck's Bolero" was first released in 1967 as the B-side of Beck's first solo single, "Hi Ho Silver Lining", and was included the following year on the Jeff Beck Group's debut album, Truth.