The Song Remains the Same (film)

The Song Remains the Same is a concert film featuring the English rock band Led Zeppelin. The filming took place during the summer of 1973, during three nights of concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City, with additional footage shot at Shepperton Studios. The film premiered three years later onOctober 1976 at Cinema I in New York, onOctober 1976 at Fox Wilshire in Los Angeles, and at Warner West End Cinema in London two weeks later. It was accompanied by a soundtrack album of the same name. The DVD of the film was released onDecember 1999.

Since late 1969, Led Zeppelin had been planning on filming one of their live performances for a projected movie documentary of the band. The groups manager, Peter Grant, believed that they would be better served by the big screen than by television, because he regarded the sound quality of the latter as unsatisfactory. The first attempt was the filming by Peter Whitehead and Stanley Dorfman of Led Zeppelins Royal Albert Hall performance onJanuary 1970, but the lighting was judged to be mediocre, and the film was shelved this footage was later remastered and featured on the 2003 release Led Zeppelin DVD.On the morning ofJuly 1973, during the bands concert tour of the United States, Peter Grant made a contact with Americanborn director Joe Massot. Massot was already known to Grant as he and his wife had moved into a house in Berkshire in 1970, where they made friends with their neighbours, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and his girlfriend Charlotte Martin. Grant had previously turned down offers by Massot to make a film of the band, but with the huge success of the bands current tour, Grant changed his mind and offered him the job of director. As Grant recalled ........

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