Still image from the 1976 film The Song Remains The Same.

The Song Remains The Same

Directed by Peter Clifton

Members of Led Zeppelin share their fantasies while preparing for a big concert.

1976 2h 16m Documentary TV-PG

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CAST
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Peter Clifton, Director
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Peter Clifton
Director

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John Bonham, Himself
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John Bonham
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John Paul Jones, Himself
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John Paul Jones
Himself

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Jimmy Page, Himself
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Jimmy Page
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Robert Plant, Himself
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Robert Plant
Himself

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Peter Grant,
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Peter Grant

FULL SYNOPSIS

Members of Led Zeppelin share their fantasies while preparing for a big concert.


VIDEOS
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Ben Mankiewicz Intro...
Hosted Intro
Song Remains The Same, The - L...
Movie Clip

ARTICLES
They are giants in the world of rock 'n' roll with overall record sales that are second only to The Beatles. Led Zeppelin's musical legacy also continues to forcefully reach beyond a 12 year-long career that began in London during 1968 and ended with drummer John Bonham's death from alcohol poisoning at the age of 31 in 1980. The continuing resonance of the band is easily seen with the performance footage culled from California dates during 1972 that were packaged recently as both a soundtrack CD and concert documentary DVD in How the West Was Won (2003), which debuted at number one on the Billboard's Pop Albums chart. The success of How the West Was Won underscores a public thirst that had been unquenched since the release of The Song Remains the Same (1976), a Led Zeppelin concert film that was an entirely different bit of patchwork - one that tried to fuse together the Led Zeppelin mythos, via visual flights of fancy, with concert footage taken in 1973 at Madison Square Gardens, itself later reconstructed for editing purposes. By 1973, Led Zeppelin had come out with five albums, the last of which was Houses of the Holy an album that hit the U.K. charts at number one and stayed on chart for 13 weeks. This was a significant feat for any band but, by Led Zeppelin standards it was shy of something like their second album release of Led Zeppelin II, which debuted at number one and stayed on the charts for 138 weeks. The first track on Houses of the Holy is The Song Remains ...

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