Jimmy Page, we Led Zeppelin as never seen before - Lifestyle

A kind gentleman, with white hair, over the years but definitely well worn, with an iron memory and a great desire to tell. It's Jimmy Page, yes, the unleashed guitarist of Led Zeppelin, one of the founders of the super rock band, the one with the long hair and extravagant clothes. It accompanies Becoming Led Zeppelin, the documentary film out of competition in Venice 78, the first on the mythical in 50 years of career. The reason he explains it himself: "in recent years we have rejected dozens of film proposals and in the end approved only this one: the only one with our music at the center, the only one with the mission of deepening, explaining how we were born, what training we had, what it meant to be together and play, there is nothing else but for us it is everything, thelove for music is the reason for our existence. "The film brought here by Bernard MacMahon is a kind of treasure chest: the director went to track down every little detail about Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham and Robert Plant, before to join and then as a rock band: tickets for their first performances, clippings, records, even improbable interviews with their kids maybe at the first concerts, archives scattered all over the world "a research work that has led us to find all over the world Many materials of which were from Led Zeppelin fans who offered to help us. "For a fan of the British group founded in 1968, the film is a bengodi: seeing the four novice kids is a delight in black and white for example. Jimmy Page says: "I really cared about this,when the film tells us as teenagers who are passionate about music, it gives the audience a great message: look how we were music fanatics, play it too, don't abandon your dreams, believe it. I am self-taught, I have never studied in music academies, I grew up listening to other people's music, making pilgrimage to record shops to look for all the possible works to hear. And this is how we all learned, even today that there is a lot of information available, I tell young people the same thing: work on something you love, it can be a hobby even if mine, started at 13 taking a guitar in hand which then accompanied me throughout my life, it became the job of a lifetime. Becoming Led Zeppelin - continues Page - is a film about apprenticeships,about perseverance and how dreams can come true. "Jimmy Page, who also wanted to remember Charlie Watts of the recently deceased Stones, also likes the film because it contains a long interview with John Bonham, the fantastic drummer co-founder who passed away in 1980. : "seeing her again makes him feel alive." The London guitarist, considered one of the legends of rock, who had started with Eric Clapton and Jeff Bleck's Yardbirds, said again: "we Led Zeppelin were different from all the other bands: since 1968 we improvised everything, we understood each other with our eyes and played freely. Imagine how many concerts, everything was improvised. This is why when John Bonham died in 1980 we disbanded, we couldn't be the same as before. "Finally, a warning to the public:"do you think you know everything about us? You are wrong, after Becoming Led Zeppelin you will really know everything, in the film there is an answer to all our music ".