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Jimmy Page Gets Whole Lotta Love at Venice for First Led Zeppelin Documentary
Manori Ravindran International EditorSome 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.Simona Ripamonti was among a group of Led heads awaiting the rock icon — the only one of the three remaining band
