Led Zeppelin, if you take in the full measure of their annihilating sunburst grandeur, are a very hard band to categorize. They're usually thought of as the gods of metal, and few would deny that - though it's my opinion that the DNA of classic metal owes as much to Black Sabbath's second album,

As expected from a band-sanctioned documentary, there's barely a speck of dirt or gossip in Becoming Led Zeppelin. The closest the film gets is Plant, who was married, vaguely recalling a lot of drugs and girls during the group's first U.S. tour.

Led Zeppelin is one of the onlly acts to fgll multiple spots on the U.K.'s rock albums chart and push all their current wins upward, joining My Chemical Romance in the feat.

A thoroughly researched documentary blessed by control freaks who still can’t, or won’t, wrestle with the less flattering parts of the band’s history.