The new trailer for “Becoming Led Zeppelin”, the feature-length documentary about the origins of Led Zeppelin, contains audio of John Bonham seemingly describing Led Zeppelin’s first rehearsal that is actually assembled from four different audio clips, including two in which he’s describing a performance by The Beatles.

A new trailer for the film began showing in US cinemas on October 24 and a fan-filmed copy of it was posted online on November 2. At the end of the trailer, it falsely claims the documentary includes “a never-before-heard interview with John Bonham”.

The filmmakers have publicly acknowledged that the audio of Bonham included in the film originates from a 1972 Australian radio interview Bonham and Robert Plant gave to journalist Graeme Berry from Sydney radio station 2SM.

Last year, LedZepNew released previously unseen emails from the filmmakers in which they can be seen tracking down the original tapes of the interview. The interview has been widely available for years, including online and through vinyl bootlegs.

At the end of the new trailer as the claim of an unheard interview is shown on screen, Bonham can be heard saying “the first time we played together it was stunning, it was like a gift from heaven, wasn’t it?”

This audio of Bonham appears to have been created using four different sections of the same 1972 radio interview. Using a copy of the interview that’s publicly available on YouTube, we tracked down the original quotes.

‘The first time we played together’

This section of the quote does indeed come from a portion of the interview in which Bonham is recalling Led Zeppelin’s first rehearsal.

You can hear this segment at 14:44 in the 1972 interview on YouTube: “Even the first time we played together, you know, there’s a feeling, you know, when you play in a group, whether it’s going to be any good or whether it’s not, you know. And it was good. It was very good indeed. And it sort of went on from there, really, you know,” Bonham says in the interview.

‘It was stunning’

This part of the quote is actually made up of two audio clips of Bonham describing video footage of The Beatles performing at Shea Stadium on August 15, 1965. You can hear this portion of the interview at 34:53 of the 1972 interview on YouTube.

“One thing I always love to see of theirs is the film when they played at Shea Stadium, you know. I don’t know whether you’ve seen that film yourself,” he says in the 1972 radio interview.

“It’s just, it’s about, like, we usually get it about once a year on our Christmas edition of Top of the Pops. But it’s one of the amazing pieces of film you’ve ever seen if you want to see sort of absolute, you know, girls just collapsing at the sight of them and it was just absolutely stunning. You know, ridiculous.”

The filmmakers appear to have used “it was” and “stunning” from this portion of the interview and edited them together, using them in the trailer to make it seem like Bonham was talking about Led Zeppelin, not The Beatles. The word “stunning” is only said once during the 1972 radio interview during this section about The Beatles.

‘It was like a gift from heaven, wasn’t it?’

The final section of this quote from the trailer comes from a different part of the 1972 radio interview in which Bonham is talking about the formation of Led Zeppelin and being invite to meet Page, not specifically about the first rehearsal. This originates from 12:20 in the 1972 radio interview.

“And as Robert said, that’s why we all thought, you know, it was a bit of a joke getting the sort of telegrams and things, you know,” he says. “That there’s a chance of becoming one of the Yardbirds sort of thing. It was like a gift from heaven, wasn’t it?”

LedZepNews has contacted “Becoming Led Zeppelin” producer Allison McGourty for comment.