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 project comes as part of celebrations to mark the group's 50th anniversairy.

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.

The film will follow the members from their first meetings in the summer of 1968, up until their second album knocked the Beatles off the number one spot in 1970.

Now in post-production, director Bernard MacMahon and the team behind the award-winning American Epic series are overseeing the project, which uses never before seen archive film and photographs to tell the story of the Zeppelin's earliest days, before they became one of the defining bands of the 1970s.

Speaking of the upcoming release, guitarist Jimmy Page said: “When I saw everything Bernard had done both visually and sonically on the remarkable achievement that is American Epic, I knew he would be qualified to tell our story.”

Singer Robert Plant added: “Seeing Will Shade, and so many other important early American musicians, brought to life on the big screen in American Epic inspired me to contribute to a very interesting and exciting story."

No official release date has been announced for the documentary.