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- 1976
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 17 m
- 1976
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 17 m
Summary A documentary of a Led Zeppelin tour mixed with live concert footage, a unique fantasy, and interviews with the band members. And yes, there's some violin bow mixed in.
Directed By: Joe Massot
Written By: Peter Clifton
- 1976
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 17 m
- 1976
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 17 m
The Song Remains the Same
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Summary A documentary of a Led Zeppelin tour mixed with live concert footage, a unique fantasy, and interviews with the band members. And yes, there's some violin bow mixed in.
Directed By: Joe Massot
Written By: Peter Clifton
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For better or worse, Song captures Zeppelin at a time when their brute force, young-stud stamina and unchecked excesses were peaking; it’s as exhilarating and exhausting as the decade it came out of.
The Song Remains the Same is a movie to listen to Led Zeppelin by. If you want to listen to Led Zeppelin. If you don't, there's no point going. If you do, it's still a dubious proposition...The scenes showing the group performing are more informative though not much more powerful.They are dominated by the singer, Robert Plant. A great mass of yellow curls tumbling around his shoulders, Mr. Plant sashays around the stage, posturing, pouting and conducting a meaningful relationship with the microphone. It looks like a sheep trying to seduce a telephone pole.
Die-hard fans will appreciate this rare glimpse of the great band at work, while mavens of unique musical instruments will delight in seeing Page "play" the seldom-used theramin (previously restricted to the Beach Boys's "Good Vibrations" and schlock horror movie soundtracks). Also, it's kind of fun watching the backstage hysterics of band manager Peter Grant, the man of legendary bad temper who was the basis for Spinal Tap's manager, Ian Faith, in THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984).
It's gruellingly long, the four-track stereo relentless, and the music a mechanical recreation of Zeppelin standards (eg. 'Whole Lotta Love', 'Stairway to Heaven).
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Production Company
Swan Song
Release Date Oct 20, 1976
Duration 2 h 17 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline In Concert And Beyond