[6 Feb 2025 | 3 Comments | 725 views]
BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN – THE VIEW FROM THE BFI IMAX CINEMA – EXTENSIVE REVIEW/ JIMMY PAGE & ROBERT PLANT TEENAGE CANCER TRUST GIG 2002 – IT  WAS 23 YEARS AGO/ T.REXTASY IN ST. ALBANS/ DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

Becoming Led Zeppelin screenings…feedback from out in the cinema…
Spoiler alert – look away now if you prefer not to know much before viewing it yourself.
My thoughts on the 6.10 screening at the BFI IMAX cinema…

So finally Becoming Led Zeppelin is up on the big screen and in cinemas across the world.

Like so many Led Zeppelin ventures through the years, it’s been a long time coming with many a twist and turn along the way.

Now the waiting is over…and let’s cut to the chase and go for a verdict.

This film is …

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Dave Lewis Diary, Headline, TBL News »

[6 Feb 2025 | 3 Comments | 725 views]

Becoming Led Zeppelin screenings…feedback from out in the cinema…
Spoiler alert – look away now if you prefer not to know much before viewing it yourself.
My thoughts on the 6.10 screening at the BFI IMAX cinema…

So finally Becoming Led Zeppelin is up on the big screen and in cinemas across the world.

Like so many Led Zeppelin ventures through the years, it’s been a long time coming with many a twist and turn along the way.

Now the waiting is over…and let’s cut to the chase and go for a verdict.

This film is …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[30 Jan 2025 | One Comment | 1,231 views]

Let me take you to the movies…Becoming Led Zeppelin update and UK screenings…
On Tuesday I attended a press screening of the Becoming Led Zeppelin film at the Sony Pictures HQ.
No spoilers – but just to say I was very impressed…
I did not think I could love Led Zeppelin anymore than I do but this film proves otherwise…invigorating, inspiring, emotional and truly fantastic. Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty  have done a fabulous job with the directing and writing. The respective interviews with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones add …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[22 Jan 2025 | No Comment | 952 views]

New issue of Record Collector with 50th Anniversary Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti cover feature out this week…

Back in early September last year, Paul Lester the editor of Record Collector got in touch to ask me if there was much scope on a feature marking 50th anniversary of the release of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti.

My reply was yes there was a lot of scope and we began formulating ideas for a major front cover feature.

The were a fair few twists and turns along the way and I’ve lived with all this …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[15 Jan 2025 | 2 Comments | 1,139 views]

Becoming Led Zeppelin film UK tickets on sale Friday January 17:
This via LZ News…
Sony Pictures UK announced this week that tickets for “Becoming Led Zeppelin” will go on sale in the UK on January 17. The film’s full-length trailer that was released last month is on the way to cinemas in the UK. It was rated 12A by the British Board of Film Classification.
See more at:
https://ledzepnews.com/

Screenings:

Keep an eye on the official website for further details to be announced…
https://becomingledzeppelinfilm.com/
BFI IMAX Cinema…
I am aiming for this venue for the February 5 showing …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[9 Jan 2025 | No Comment | 1,122 views]
JIMMY PAGE ON THE OCCASION OF HIS BIRTHDAY/LZ NEWS/MICK BONHAM /TBL 1975 SNAPSHOT/LIFE WITH THE STARS/GEORGE HARRISON/NEW FRANKFURT OVER EUROPE 1980 BOOTLEG LP SET DUE/ BEDFORD VIP RECORD FAIR/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

Jimmy Page on the occasion of his Birthday….
Jimmy Page is 81 years old today January 9th.
In a career that has spanned over seven decades, he has more than made his mark when it comes to the art of rock guitar playing.
From monolithic riffing to bombastic solos. From simple acoustic beauty to vast guitar instrumental orchestration. Jazz, classical and Eastern influences, blues, 50s rock’n’roll and psychedelic – he has turned his hand to all these varying styles over the years.  Always inventive and with a brilliant ear for production values, Jimmy …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[3 Jan 2025 | No Comment | 877 views]
JOHN PAUL JONES ON THE OCCASION OF HIS BIRTHDAY/JOHNNIE WALKER RIP/LZ NEWS/REMEMBERING RICHARD COLE/DAVID BOWIE 9 YEARS GONE/BEDFORD VIP RECORD FAIR/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

John Paul Jones on the occasion of his 79th Birthday:
John Paul Jones  is  79 years old today – on Friday January 3…
To celebrate his Birthday here is the John Paul Jones 79 at 79 TBL Playlist as follows:
John Paul Jones 79 at 79 – The TBL Playlist:
1    Foggy Day In Vietnam – Available on: Your Time is Gonna Come –The Roots Of Led Zeppelin (1964)
2    Baja – Available on: Your Time is Gonna Come –The Roots Of Led Zeppelin (1964)
3    Little Games (The Yardbirds)  –  Available on: The Yardbirds Little Games (1967)
4    She’s A Rainbow …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[28 Dec 2024 | No Comment | 760 views]

Latest Becoming Led Zeppelin news…

Here’s the latest on the Becoming Led Zeppelin film and more via the LedZepNews round up:

Led Zeppelin
More news on the release of ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’
This week has seen a festive blizzard of news about next year’s release of “Becoming Led Zeppelin”.
We now have confirmation that the film will be released in the UK on February 5. Following the film’s IMAX-exclusive release in the US and Canada on February 7, it will then have a nationwide release on 1,000 screens in the US on February 14.
We also learned this …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[19 Dec 2024 | 2 Comments | 1,217 views]
BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN SET FOR UK FEB 2025 SHOWINGS/WHOLE LOTTA LOVE – A PEOPLE’S HISTORY BOOK REVIEW/ MOJO ZEP ESSENTIALS/SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS -TBL CHRISTMAS SPECIAL – ALLY PALLY ’72/LZ NEWS/ A CHRISTMAS STORY /TBL NOSTALGIA/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

Great news…Becoming Led Zeppelin set for UK screenings – this via LedZep News…
“Becoming Led Zeppelin” will be released in the UK on February 5, LedZepNews has learned.
The film will be exclusively available on IMAX screens in the UK on February 5 and February 6 before a wider, non-IMAX release on February 7.
A new UK trailer and poster have been produced by the film’s UK distributor Sony Pictures UK:

The announcement of the film’s UK release follows two weeks of uncertainty about plans to release “Becoming Led Zeppelin” in the UK. Screenings …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[8 Dec 2024 | No Comment | 1,096 views]
AHMET ERTEGUN LED ZEPPELIN 02 REUNION -17 YEARS GONE – MEMORIES FROM A VERY SPECIAL NIGHT/LZ NEWS/JIMMY ATTENDS RINGO STARR LONDON ALBUM LAUNCH/GOLDEN LION REUNION 1981/PRESSING NEWS – BRITISH MUSIC AS IT HAPPENED 1962 -1972 REVIEW/ DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

Led Zeppelin Reunion for Ahmet Ertegun at the 02 Arena – 17 years gone…TBL Anniversary Special…
Kicking off the TBL 17th anniversary celebrations with this piece from Mark Cunningham who was at the rehearsals and at that night of nights…
THE MIRACLE OF 2007
A random outpouring of recollection.
That was an incredible time to be alive, especially in my position as the founding editor of live production industry magazine TPi (Total Production International), whose responsibility it was to report on the design and execution of the best shows around.
I was also a co-founder …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[5 Dec 2024 | No Comment | 773 views]
DECEMBER 4 1980 – THEY COULD NOT CONTINUE AS THEY WERE / BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN OFFICIAL TRAILER/LZ NEWS/CODA – IT WAS 42 YEARS AGO/THE MAKING OF LED ZEPPELIN IV – PART THREE/WHOLE LOTTA LOVE UK SINGLE IN 1969/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

It was 44 years ago …they could not continue as they were…

44 years ago this week I vividly remember taking a call from the Musician’s Only paper and being asked for a quote regarding the announcement that Led Zeppelin were to disband.
These were sad times indeed – and it was about to get worse. The whole ‘Zep to split’ story would get buried somewhat when just four days later John Lennon was shot dead in New York…
Looking back at my diary entry for 44 years ago for December 4, it …