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Bookmark this pageThe Song Remains the Same (1976)
Director: Peter Clifton, Joe Massot
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From Time Out Film Guide
This could trouble even the devout in the Led Zeppelin coven. Essentially a chord by chord documentation of their '73 Madison Square concert, the heavy metal onslaught is intercut with lavish psychedelic effects, New York by night, seedy backstage wrangles, and five fantasy sequences. Here the band and manager Peter Grant indulge in some awesomely heavy-handed wish fulfilment. It ranges from the laboured (Grant as overblown Chicago gangster) to the dire (vocalist Robert Plant interprets his Viking saga like a TV ad for hairspray) and neurotic (guitarist Jimmy Page supernaturally experiences the seven ages of man). 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).Author: IB
Cast & crew
Director: Peter Clifton, Joe Massot
Producer: Peter Grant
Cast: John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Peter Grant full cast
Duration: 136 mins
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