Sky Arts1, 10.00pm
They're back in the news with the release of a new movie celebrating their 2007 tribute concert for friend and Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegunshow. In this doco, long-time tour manager Richard Cole and members of The Yardbirds, Vanilla Fudge, Bad Company, The Ramones and Foreigner discuss the outrageous history and loudly-resounding legacy of seminal rock band Led Zeppelin. Charting the rise to fame of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones, it explores the unusual formation of the foursome, from Plant's audition to his desperate attempts to convince his best friend Bonham to quit his steady earner at a dancehall and join the New Yardbirds, later to be renamed Led Zeppelin. Chris Dreja, who left the Yardbirds to focus on a career in photography, highlights the influence of blues artists on the band, and how they conquered America long before they knocked the Beatles' Abbey Road from the UK album top spot in 1970. Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge recalls how they "blew us off stage" and how bands were refusing to play before or after them. Around the same time, Led Zeppelin also started making increasingly bigger demands. Their former publicist Bill Harry recalls how, at a time when bands received around 50 per cent of tour revenues, their manager Peter Grant demanded that Led Zeppelin either received a whopping 90 per cent of the profits or they wouldn't show. He describes how organisers buckled and the balance between artist and promoters was changed forever. However, with huge success and big money came excess and headline news. Cole and session guitarist Jim Sullivan describe their mad antics and acts of vandalism in hotels, as well as the mysterious disappearance of $203,000 of tour money from a safety deposit box in the The Drake Hotel, New York. Former girlfriend of Jimmy Page, amela Des Barres, discusses partying with her guitarist boyfriend while Lori Mattix talks about her crazy teenage years in the company of the band and Grant. Rare shots explore the interior of Page's mansion, Headley Grange. Page developed a fixation with the occult, and it was there in the haunted Hampshire home he was said to carry out his own experiments with black magic. It was also where the band wrote and rehearsed many of their classics and also inspired their 1971 song Black Dog, after the band discovered a dead Labrador-retriever in one of the rooms. Finally, the tragic death of John "Bonzo" Bonham in 1980 comes under the spotlight and, in an emotional archive interview, Plant alludes to perhaps one of the real reasons behind Led Zeppelin's success, as well as why the band evaporated so soon after their fearless drummer was found dead.
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