John Bonham

'John Bonham' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Bonham, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti - A Classic Album Under Review

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 47th Annual Grammy Awards

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself - Winner of Lifetime Achievement Award
• Play in Full Screen Led Zeppelin: Royal Albert Hall

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Led Zeppelin DVD

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Song Remains the Same

  1976, role: actor , character name: Himself - Drummer
• Play in Full Screen Son of Dracula

  1974, role: actor , character name: Musician: The Count Downes

Famous quotes by John Bonham:

"I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory,"

"I think the marketing needs work."

"The scenery there, I just remember that being absolutely stunning,"

"It's been fantastic, the response, ... It's been overwhelming the fans."

"People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me."

"We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs."

"Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest."

"There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play."

"I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan."

"My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine."

"I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained."

"I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters."

"Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous."

"With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by."

"Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at."

"There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before."

"We once did six tours of America in 15 months."

"If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about."

John Bonham

Born: 1948-05-31

Died: 1980-09-25