Jimmy Page Gets Whole Lotta Love at Venice for First Led Zeppelin Documentary
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Some A-list actors get treated like rock stars at film festivals, but when the real rock stars arrive, it’s another level of fandom.
Jimmy Page, the 77-year-old lead guitarist of Led Zeppelin, received a hero’s welcome in Venice on Saturday, where “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” the band’s first proper documentary since the band’s conception in 1968, premiered to bursts of rapturous applause across its 137-minute runtime.
The film received a standing ovation that may have broken “Dune’s” six-minute Venice record had it not been for Page cutting the fanfare short at three minutes and politely exiting.

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Simona Ripamonti was among a group of Led heads awaiting the rock icon — the only one of the three remaining band members to come to Venice — on the red carpet, clad in the band’s signature T-shirt. But Ripamonti went the extra mile.
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Her polyester black jacket was hand-painted with a fiery red and orange dragon and Page’s cryptic symbol from the band’s fourth album.
Her jeans also featured another dragon painted along her left pant leg.

“I think they’re the most important band in the universe.
This outfit is inspired by Jimmy Page,” she tells Variety, referencing the guitarist’s eclectic sense of style.
Ripamonti and her friends have travelled from Milan and Torino, respectively, to catch a glimpse of Page and watch the movie, which she first heard about over Instagram when its completion was first announced last month.
She’s already aware that the film isn’t a typical documentary, and opts instead for a scrapbook-style presentation, with the band narrating the whole movie themselves.



