Legendary LED ZEPPELIN manager to be subject of new Documentary

07 July 2016

Legendary LED ZEPPELIN manager Peter Grant is having a documentary made about him by his son, Warren.

Peter came up in the British music business of the ‘60s, working with manager Don Arden (late and estranged father of Sharon Osbourne).

Grant began managing The Yardbirds (featuring Jimmy Page) in 1966. When The Yardbirds split, Page performed with new members under the name The New Yardbirds before renaming themselves Led Zeppelin. Page and Grant used the lessons learned from The Yardbirds to make Led Zeppelin the world’s biggest rock band.

Billboard caught up with Warren to talk about the documentary.

Billboard: I understand you and former Atlantic Records exec Jerry Greenberg are working on a documentary about your dad?

Warren Grant: “Yeah, we want to do a documentary that tells the story of what he was like as a father as well as a manager. The reason I want to do it with Jerry is I get offers all the time from various film companies, but I think generally they are really looking to use dad’s story as a means to make a film about Zeppelin. Jerry was very good friends and work colleagues with my dad and I have lots of memories of him from back when -- we used to go out on these fishing boats in Florida and various other places -- and he and I [reconnected] a few years ago when I was [in L.A.] visiting my daughter, who was doing some work for Freeman Entertainment with the managers from Motorhead. With Jerry being so close to him he seems the perfect choice to help me produce this.”

Billboard: Are there directors or anything lined up?

“No, we just really talked about it last week. Jerry has to complete his own doc about his career in the music business, then we will get things moving.”

Source: bravewords.com

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