Morrison Hotel Gallery Unveils Led Zeppelin Retrospective Exhibit “Get The Led Out” in New York and Los Angeles
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Morrison Hotel Gallery has announced Get The Led Out, an unprecedented, career-spanning look at Led Zeppelin’s reign through newly unearthed photographs. Arriving in conjunction with Becoming Led Zeppelin, a new documentary from Sony Pictures that chronicles the legendary heavy metal innovators’ early years and ascent through archival materials and first-hand accounts, the exhibit will feature images unearthed by director Bernard MacMahon as he developed the band’s first-ever officially sanctioned film.
Get The Led Out is centered in never-before-seen images from renowned photographer Ron Raffaeli, who captured the notoriously secretive band’s early era and rise to stardom with candid behind-the-scenes access. Glimpses from Raffaeli (who was once Jimi Hendrix’s official photographer) will be complimented by contributions from Michael Brennan, Bob Gruen, Terry O’Neill, Scarlet Page, Allan Tannenbaum, Mark Weiss, Lynn Goldsmith, Ken Regan, Jay Blakesberg, Henry Diltz, Barrie Wentzell and more, amounting to a titanic tribute worthy of the group’s legend status.
Morrison Hotel Gallery’s exhibit opens alongside Becoming Led Zeppelin, which premiered to audiences across North America last week. The film, helmed by MacMahon and writer/producer Allison McGourty, comprises a dynamic mix of never-before-seen live footage, unearthed home movies, current interviews with the musicians and more. To create this unprecedented view into the group’s origins, the team scoured the archives and traveled across the globe to uncover early materials long thought to be lost or nonexistent, including tape from 1969 concerts at the Atlanta Pop Festival, the Fillmore West, and the Texas Pop Festival and an unreleased interview with the late John Bonham.
“We spent five years flying back and forth across the Atlantic scouring attics and basements in pursuit of rare and unseen film footage, photographs and music recordings,” McGourty shared in a statement. “Then we transferred each piece of media with custom techniques, so that in IMAX, these 55-year-old clips and music would look and sound like they came out of the lab yesterday.”
Get The Led Out will open on Thursday, Feb. 13, with opening night celebrations from 7-9 p.m. at Morrison Hotel at The Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles and from 6-8pm at Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York. MacMahon and McGourty will appear for an exclusive Q&A at the New York opening, moderated by Morrison Hotel Gallery CEO Adam Block. Both Get The Led Out exhibits will run through Thursday, Feb. 17.
For more information on Morrison Hotel Gallery’s new Led Zeppelin exhibit, visit morrisonhotelgallery.com. Read more about Becoming Led Zeppelin here.
