Fans who have felt disappointed with ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ Because “it ends when the good begins,” as many have commented on social networks, they should have been more attentive. The title says it very clearly: become LED Zeppelin.
Beyond the little sense that makes focusing on their days of glory telling what we all already know, those who criticize that the documentary only tells the beginnings of the group are despising a very complete story, which is successful in their balance of rigor and emotion.
The film directed by Bernard Macmahon (creator of the formidable series’American Epic’ About the roots of American music) tells the stories of the four members of LED Zeppelin as if drawing four channels that end up converging in a large river, revealing small secrets of their childhoods that end up being key to forging the personality of the best rock band of all time.
Jimmy Page tells how a neighborhood kid taught him to play the guitar, and his learning is described deeply His stage as a session musicianin which he tanned playing for David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Marianne Faithfull, Brenda Lee, The Who, The Kinks, Donovan, Petula Clark, Joe Cocker or Shirley Bassey, in the latter coinciding with his future companion John Paul Jones.
From the bassist it is discovered that his passion for music originated in the US military bases that he visited with his family, which offered vaodevil shows to the soldiers; And how his daily contact with different instruments made him a renowned artist required by stars such as Herman’s Hermits, Donovan, Françoise Hardy, Cat Stevens, Rod Stewart, Lulu, Dusty Springfield, the Rolling Stones or Jeff Beck, this last friend of the childhood of Page, with whom he already begins to see connect.
On the other hand, the viewer is given an exciting unpublished interview with John Bonham in which it is proven that it was also destined to be the best rock drummer in history, when starting to play as a child following the teachings of Gene Kupa and the Famous Flames of James Brown and baking daily until he feels his hands. But the most fascinating story is that of Robert Plantwho says that through his veins he runs gypsy blood, which fell into the claws of the blues and rock’n’roll thanks to a local musician named Perry Foster, and that in his adolescence it was a synthesch that passed the time between political activism, music and theater, stealing food or gasoline when necessary.
The interviews with the surviving members are full of very revealing gestural details, and the stories of the four are gradually converging in the documentary with a sensitivity that makes them want to applaud when the time for his first essay arrivesafter the renovation of the Yardbirds that the final output pistol gave. From there, the ascent to Olympus precipitates in a matter of minutes arriving until the time of the publication of their second album, with which they finally swept the rock scene.
An error that ends in demand
Who has been very attentive to every detail of ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ has been Jake Holmes, an old acquaintance of the group. Unfortunately, when editing the documentary a Garafal error was made, when the song ‘Dazed and Confused’ was proven to Jimmy Page. The guitarist plagued her to Holmes, an artist who had peeled the Yardbirds in New York in 1967, and who saw with horror how her composition ended up being one of the great classics of LED Zeppelin.
Holmes sued Page for the violation of copyright in 2010, and the legal dispute was closed with an extrajudicial agreement whose terms were not announced, except for the fact that Led Zeppelin was forced to point out in the credits of any new publication of the song that was “written Jimmy Page, inspired by Jake Holmes.”
However, There is a moment of the documentary in which the original credits of the subject appearwithout citing Holmes, and that is why he has filed a new lawsuit before a federal court in Los Angeles, stating that Page is once again violating the copyright law by not giving credit or paying him for it.
«By falsely stating that Holmes’ composition is Page’s composition [y otros] Holmes ‘composition have deliberately infringed, ”writes Holmes’ lawyers. “The defendants … have ignored the demand for cessation and withdrawal of the plaintiff and continue to violate their copyright.”
In addition, the lawsuit ensures that he also violates his copyright by presenting images of live actions of the song: “The defendants have thus committed multiple acts of malicious infraction by continuing to use the composition of Holmes without authorization.”
Page has not responded to the accusation for the moment, but this demand will undoubtedly have bitter the candy of a very expected documentary that has fulfilled a good part of the expectations.
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