John Bonham: The Last Interview

In the 1970s Led Zeppelin had built a reputation for hard living to match their music. Stories abounded of the wild nights they spent with large numbers of willing young women, the taking of vast quantise of drugs and Jimmy Page's interest with the occult. The mystique of the band was further enhanced by their manager Peter Grant restricting their dealings with the media.  In 1980 when hosting a now long forgotten music show called Alright Now, Billy Connolly had a rare interview with John Bonham. After calling Bonham the greatest Rock drummer in the World, Connolly introduce a clip of the Led Zeppelin film The Song Remains the Same which features him spending time in the pub, racing fast cars, spending time at home with his family and performing a drum solo. The interview itself is a light hearted affair as Bonham answers to Connolly questions range from shrugs of the shoulders to no more than 2 words. Sadly later in 1980 Bonham died after an alochic bender and then after Led Zeppelin disbanded. The interview can viewed on Youtube and shows a man who did take the world all that seriously.