Becoming Led Zeppelin

I was born in 1970. I didn't discover Led Zeppelin until I was about 15, which would land me in 1985. By then Zeppelin was done. Drummer John Bonham had died five year prior and the band had released their last album, CODA in 1982. The ride was well over. It had no real effect on my discovery of a band that was the most original and powerful thing I had heard in my whole 15 years on planet earth. When I was 18, I got to see Robert Plant in Ottawa - Stevie Ray Vaughan opened. Amazing. When I was 28 (1998), I managed to see Page/Plant in Toronto - the closet thing I would ever get to see Led Zeppelin. Now it's 2025. John Bonham has been dead for 45 years and "Becoming Led Zeppelin" has been released in IMAX. This is a film for fans. If you don't love these guys, then this isn't for you. If you do, get to the theatre now. There is footage of the band at their first public gig. Plant swinging around his mic, Jimmy doing crazy wild stuff on his guitar and there is the audience, baffled. It was like when Marty McFly plays guitar in "Back to the Future." Nobody understood what they were looking at, what they were hearing. "Becoming Led Zeppelin" is indeed going back to the future, a time when nobody understood what this new sound was, the birth, some might say, of Heavy Metal. The film only covers the first two albums and how it launched them into superstardom. It's a whole lotta music. I loved every minute of it. Catch it now in theatres, hopefully in IMAX.