Return to Italy for Robert Plant, after last year's shows. The ex-French of Led Zeppelin will perform together with Suzi Dian with the Saving Grace project for the only date scheduled in our country in 2025 on July 13, on the stage of the Lucca Summer Festival, in Piazza Napoleone. The concert presents songs from his solo discography in the lineup, from some classics of the Led Zeppelin revisited and a lot from traditional European music, rearranged by the great English rocker to give the songs the typical Celtic and exotic atmospheres of his recent live shows.
Saving Grace is the project that sees Robert Plant (Voice), Suzi Dian (Voice), Oli Jefferson (percussion), Tony Kelsey (mandolin, baritone and acoustic guitars) and Matt Worley (Banjo, acoustic guitars and baritone, Cuatro) on stage). . Born in 2019 with a series of surprise concerts in small clubs between England, Wales and Ireland, Saving Grace presents songs that embrace different styles and influences belonging to the ex-Cantante of Led Zeppelin, in particular his eternal passion for British folk And American, the spiritual and the traditional blues, including great classics of Doc Watson, Donovan, Moby Grape, Low and many others. Some small spaces are reserved for the past of the Led Zeppelin, which is reread in the spirit of the rest of the concert. (here the review of the Rome concert).
Meanwhile, it has been announced that “Becoming Led Zeppelin”, the documentary on the legendary British band, will arrive in Italian cinemas from February 27 to March 5. After the first anticipation of a month ago, a new trailer has now been published that alternates unpublished archive images, vintage reports and exclusive interviews with the members of English training. Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones retrace, with intimate and authentic testimonies, their path, enriched by John Bonham's registered contributions. From the first meeting among the musicians, to the first concerts in Denmark under the name The New Yardbirds, up to the overwhelming success of the debut album and the conquest of the arenas around the world, “Becoming Led Zeppelin” promises to tell the epic of the Band as never done before. In the trailer, live performance charges of electricity, glimpses behind the scenes and crazy in delirium capture the incendiary spirit of the Led Zeppelin.
Look below the trailer for “Becoming Led Zeppelin”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ier-k0bzo
“Becoming Led Zeppelin” is a journey through the history of the best known world hard-rock band. The docu-film alternates interviews with Robert Plant (here the review of his last concert in Rome), Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, with historical clips with John Bonham interventions and concert movies of the English band in 1969 at the West Fillmore, All 'Atlanta Pop Festival and at the Texas Pop Festival.
“Becoming Led Zeppelin” focuses above all on the initial years of the group and on its ascent to the world Starom, revealing their individual paths while moving on the music scene of the sixties. Because before “Starway to Heaven”, Dragon guitar and gold records, there were simply four artists and their love for music. Until, in the summer of 1968, they meet to try together and their lives change forever. The four routes merge into one when they leave the conquest of America in a roller coaster tour that culminates in 1970, when they become the number one band in the world.
“Becoming Led Zeppelin” was previewed at the Venice Film Festival in 2021, but did not have a large -scale distribution as initially expected. At the beginning of this year, we returned to talk about the documentary when Sony Classics Pictures acquired the production distribution rights. The version that will arrive in theaters, however, is slightly different from that shown in Venice three years ago.
Director Bernard Macmahon tells “with 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' my goal was to make a new type of film, a documentary that resembled a musical. I wanted to intertwine the four different stories of the members of the group before and after the formation of the band, making it clear parts of their history only from music and images, in order to tie the songs to the places where they were created and the events that inspired them . I only used original films and negatives, with over 70,000 frames restored manually, and I created fantasy sequences, inspired by 'singin' in the Rain ', overlapping unpublished movies of live performances with photomontages of posters, tickets and travels, for visually recreate the sense of frenzy of their beginnings “.
“Becoming Led Zeppelin” will be distributed in 200 IMAX cinemas starting from 7 February 2025. Furthermore, before the general release, there will be advanced projections in 18 cities on February 5, 2025, in selected locations.
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Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM