Led Zeppelin, the legendary English rock band, are set to release "Celebration Day", a film which captures the group's one-off reunion concert from 2007, in October, the New York Times reports.
The highly-anticipated reunion took place at the O2 Arena in London as part of a tribute show for the recently deceased Ahmet Ertegun, founder of the band's former record label, Atlantic Records. An estimated 20 million people took part in a lottery for the 18,000 tickets that were available for the concert.
Led Zeppelin released eight studio albums in the 1970s and have record sales of over 100 million in the United States alone. A number of the group's songs including "Stairway to Heaven" and "Whole Lotta Love" remain staples of rock radio.
The group initially disbanded in 1980 following the death of drummer John Bonham. The three surviving members, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and Jon Paul Jones, along with Bonham's son, Jason, reunited for the band's first full-length reunion concert since Bonham's death and received critical acclaim for their performance, Billboard said.
The film is scheduled to be released to over 1,500 theaters worldwide on October 17, followed by a DVD release on November 19.
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