Davis Guggenheim won an Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth, and has turned his talents toward another big, potentially unwieldy subject: the lives and work of the three musicians. He takes the Edge back to Mount Temple, the Dublin secondary school where U2 formed, and films Jimmy Page wandering the halls of Headley Grange, the estate where Zeppelin created iconic albums such as Led Zeppelin IV and Physical Graffiti. Jack White’s 19th-century-undertaker affect and laborious atavism are cut by a ferocious work ethic and undeniable passion: at one point he talks about his teenage bedroom, which was so crammed with musical instruments and equipment that he moved his bed out and slept on the floor.
