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  Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary joins September's Venice Film Festival

  Becoming Led Zeppelin, the documentary about the iconic British rock band, has been added to September's Venice Film Festival line-up. The movie, from American Epic director Bernard MacMahon, is to take an out of competition slot at the Italian festival. Band members Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, and the late John Bonham feature, revealing their individual journeys as Led Zeppelin went from playing small club shows in Britain during the 1960s to becoming one of the world's biggest e

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  Let’s not go back to the denial and delusion of the Thatcher years

  Let’s not go back to the denial and delusion of the Thatcher yearsNostalgia, royal navel-gazing and angst: modern Britain is in danger of repeating the mistakes of 40 years ago ‘Margaret Thatcher spoke the populist language of patriotism and national destiny, and sometimes tilted towards the language of the far right.’ Photograph: Rex Features

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  Dave Grohl's teenage obsessions: 'I learned drums by arranging pillows on my floor'

  Dave Grohl's teenage obsessions: 'I learned drums by arranging pillows on my floor'. Ahead of the 10th Foo Fighters album, their frontman recalls the music and scenes that made him – from punk gigs in Chicago to sleeping on floors in Italian squats

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  The untimely death of Led Zeppelin

  It’s 40 years since the biggest rock band in the world broke up, two months after the death of drummer John Bonham. The Zeppelin myth holds that the band wouldn't go on without him, but others tell a darker tale. Mark Beaumont explores what really happened

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  Led Zeppelin's 'wounded pit bull': the terrifying, tragic talent of John Bonham

  Late in the evening of Monday July 7 1980, the final chords of Whole Lotta Love rang out through the 6,000-capacity Eissporthalle ice rink in Berlin, West Germany. The four members of Led Zeppelin left the stage broadly happy that the last performance of their 14-date European tour – their first in seven years – had gone well. But what they couldn’t have known was that the Berlin date would be their last ever show together due to the death of hard-living drummer John ‘Bonzo’ Bonham just 11 weeks

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  Led Zeppelin: First ever official documentary announced to mark 50th anniversary

  The first ever official Led Zeppelin film - featuring previously unseen photos and footage - has been announced to mark the band's 50th anniversary. It is the only time the musicians have participated in a documentary during their 50-year history and features never seen before archive footage and photographs. New interviews with Page, Plant and Jones form part of the film, as well as rare archival interviews with Bonham, who died in 1980.

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  Led Zeppelin documentary announced for 50th anniversary

  The documentary will follow the band's meeting in the summer of 1968.

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  New Led Zeppelin documentary to celebrate legendary rock group’s 50th anniversary

  Details of a new Led Zeppelin documentary following the legendary rock group’s early years have been confirmed today. The film will feature brand new interviews with surviving members Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones, as well as archive interviews with late drummer John Bonham, who died aged 32 in 1980. It marks the first time members of the band have participated in a documentary about the group, who became one of the biggest rock bands of all time after forming in the late 60s.

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  Jason Bonham retracts 'untrue' story about being given cocaine as a teenager by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page

  Jason Bonham, the son of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, has retracted a recent story about being given cocaine by guitarist Jimmy Page. Bonham told US radio host Howard Stern last week that Page had given him the drug when he was just 16 years old. “Jimmy was the first one to ever give it to me,” Bonham, who has also drummed for Led Zeppelin, told Stern.

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  Remembering Sid Vicious – long gone, but not forgotten

  Sid Vicious died from a drug overdose in a New York hotel on 2 February 1979. He was one of a long list of rock musicians who died in the years 1977 to 1980, including Elvis Presley, Marc Bolan, three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd (killed in an air crash), Sandy Denny (Fairport Convention), Keith Moon (The Who), Lowell George (Little Feat), Bon Scott (AC/DC), John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) and John Lennon.

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