With Led Zeppelin silent on social media for more than a year, the band publicly ignoring the release of an authorised feature-length documentary film and the group’s work on an official exhibition abandoned, it’s time to ask an important question: What’s going on with Led Zeppelin?
All signs point to an inability of the members of Led Zeppelin to agree on and launch any new projects since 2019, a stark contrast to other legacy musical acts like The Beatles that have continued to release unheard material and to participate in new projects.
2018 seems to be the last year that Led Zeppelin was capable of agreeing on anything. That year saw a wave of products released to mark the band’s fiftieth anniversary, including a new book, previously unheard mixes released on vinyl for Record Store Day and a remastered release of the soundtrack for The Song Remains the Same.
2018 was also the year when work on “Becoming Led Zeppelin” began and when the band members seemingly sat for hours of interviews for the film ahead of its announcement the following year.
But no new Led Zeppelin-owned projects have been successfully launched since 2018, raising questions about what has caused a lack of action within Led Zeppelin.
The only new project announced by the band since 2019 was a seven-inch vinyl single of “Immigrant Song” that was announced in October 2020 before being cancelled without explanation in January 2021 a day before it was due to be released.
