Film
Led Zeppelin: Becoming Led-Zeppelin
Near mint minus; originally rolled (as issued)
Bernard MacMahon
Carmen Plant, Jason Bonham, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Karac Plant, Patricia Bonham, Peter Grant, Richard Cole, Robert Plant, Roy Harper
2025
UK Quad (30" x 40") Double Sided
Original British UK quad film poster for Bernard MacMahon’s Led Zeppelin rockumentary “Becoming Led-Zeppelin”. Produced with the full co-operation of the remaining members of the band and includes some incredible previously unreleased and unseen footage as their meteoric rise from West Midlands’ session players to fully fledged rockstars is given a fresh new take. Featuring band imagery from an early live performance, set against over-sized text (in the familiar Led Zeppelin style) it is a poster design that’s perfectly suited to the landscape format go the British quad. From 2025, this originally rolled (as issued), example is presented in excellent high grade condition. Fantastic Led Zeppelin and cinema collectable and a marvellous piece of music and film memorabilia.
Trivia: One of the bands mentioned on the flyers seen in the film is “The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation.” Dunbar would later be famed for playing with artists like David Bowie, Journey, Jefferson Starship, Frank Zappa, and Whitesnake. Early in his career, Dunbar drummed for John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, a band that featured some of the earliest work from artists like Mick Fleetwood and Eric Clapton. When Dunbar was fired from the band, he called his next band “Retaliation” as a way of chiding Mayall.
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“The film traces the journeys of the four members of the Stairway To Heaven rockers through the music scene of the 1960s and their meeting in the summer of 1968, culminating in 1970. It dives into the rise of the epochal rock group, is the only documentary of its kind that the band themselves have participated in. The documentary includes new interviews with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones, as well as rare archival interviews with the band’s late drummer John Bonham.”
2025 has been the year of musical biopics so far, though this film about the early years of Led Zeppelin is a music documentary / concert film, unlike any of those.
Looking to break away from his comfortable life as a session guitarist, Jimmy Page established his own band, bringing in fellow session player John Paul Jones as well as two prodigious talents from the West Midlands in Robert Plant, and John Bonham. Their chemistry is immediate and they head to American to tour on pre-existing contracts for Page’s former band The Yardbirds. Their first album is a commercial success, though not well reviewed. They resolve to come again with everything they have for their second album.
The documentary has the full co-operation from the three surviving members of the band who all appear in talking head style interviews, explaining their story themselves. This is intercut with footage from various different sources showing the band performing, or home videos. There is also inserts from an Interview with John Bonham, that never aired anywhere previously, but cover his early life, and time spent with Plant before the band came together. It’s quite emotional when they play the interview to the rest of the band, particularly a section when he talks about how he feels about his bandmates. It’s a very well researched documentary, though does only get the bands opinions on what’s going on, with none of the supporting characters offering any thoughts.
Ending where they do, with the release of Zeppelin 2, does mean that they can avoid all of the contentious topics that a full documentary would cover. So, there’s no spiralling into heroin use, no talk of what they may have gotten up to with groupies and there’s no actual discussion of Bonham’s death, even how they feel about it. Maybe with the trust that Bernard MacMahon has established with them, they could come back and do a follow up “The End of Led Zeppelin”.
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LOBBY CARD
11 x 14″ printed on heavy stock paper. Used as display in theatre lobbies. Originally made in sets of eight. Some sets have a title card, which contains credits and artwork, essentially a mini-poster. The remaining seven cards are coloured photographic credits and poster artwork showing different scenes from the movie.
WINDOW CARD
14 x 22″ printed on heavy stock paper with the top 4-6 inches usually left blank for the local cinema owner to fill in the cinema and the date it was due to play. Largely discontinued during the 1970’s.
HALF SHEET
22 x 28″ printed on heavy stock paper. The image displayed is normally a smaller version of the main poster, although some do have different artworks and sometimes come in two versions.
INSERT
14 x 36″ printed on heavy stock paper. Inserts usually have the same artwork as a one sheet. Popular with collectors since they are smaller and easier to frame. Normally come tri folded or rolled.
STYLE Y/FORTY BY SIXTY
40 x 60″ printed on heavy stock paper. Rare since they were primarily used for major motion pictures only. Designed to be used outside the theatre, on an easel, normally at a drive-in movie theatre.
ONE-SHEET
27 x 41″ printed on paper. This is the most common size of poster, intended to be displayed in a glass “marquee” case. It is the most sought after size by collectors. Since the 1980’s most posters are sent to the theatre rolled and maybe slightly smaller measuring 27″ by 40″ and with the advent of backlit light boxes a growing number of modern movie posters are available double-sided and the more traditional single-sided.
THREE-SHEET
41 x 81″ printed on paper. These were printed on two or three separate sheets designed to overlap, few survive. Used for larger advertising spaces, normally posted on walls, perfect for huge movie theatres the drive-in, where people could see them from a distance. From the 1970’s on, three-sheets were sometimes printed in one piece and issued as “international” versions to be used abroad.
BRITISH QUAD
30 x 40″ Most common poster size used in the UK. British Quads are horizontal and may have different artwork to the US one sheet. Like a US one sheet they normally come in two versions. Like a US one sheet they are usually supplied single-sided or more commonly now as a double sided poster.
BRITISH ONE-SHEET
27 X 40″, printed on paper. Very rarely used size.
ITALIAN LOCANDINA
13 x 28″ six inches shorter than the US insert, very nice size to frame. Italian poster illustrators are some of the best in the industry.
ITALIAN PHOTOBUSTA
18 x 26″ Glossy, high quality, used as lobby cards in Italy. Size may vary, either vertical or horizontal format. There are also double Photobusta or mini Photobusta.
2-FOGLIO (DUE)
(DUE): 39 x 55″ This is the standard poster size used in Italy. Italian poster illustrators are some of the best in the industry.
4-FOGLIO
(QUATTRO) 55 x 79″ Very large Italian poster printed in two pieces, often contains very beautiful artwork.
FRENCH
47 x 63″ (GRANDE) or 24 x 33″ (PETITE) French movie posters normally come with different artwork to either the US or the UK. Like the Italian’s some of the artwork is extrememly beautiful.
