Music DVDs

The latest releases reviewed.

The latest releases reviewed.

LED ZEPPELIN The Song Remains the Same Warner Home Video ***

Even non-Zep fans have to acknowledge this as one of rock music's great films. Getting a timely re-release as the band prepare to play their first gig together in almost 20 years, TSRTS is very much a film of two parts. The footage from Led Zeppelin playing Madison Square Garden in 1973 is as incendiary as it ever was - this really was a band at the peak of their full-on heavy rock powers. The other, slightly more surreal, material is concerned with each band member's "individual fantasies and hallucinations". This part of the film didn't work back on its release in 1976 and it certainly hasn't aged well. Indulgent nonsense all around - but then, this was Led Zep and this was a famous US tour, so it's perhaps no surprise that they got a bit carried away. Get this for the live footage - it really is something to see. BRIAN BOYD

JAMIROQUAI Live at Montreux 2003 Eagle Rock **

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The man with the silly hats struts his ersatz Stevie Wonder stuff at the Montreux Jazz Festival. This was Jay Kay's third appearance at the prestigious event, and the motor car enthusiast eases his way into the affections of the crowd, most of whom have little problem grooving to the likes of Canned Heat, Cosmic Girl, Travelling Without Moving, Just Another Story and Use the Force. The problem of Jamiroquai in a live setting is not so much the set list but in his truly excrutiating on-stage manner. Never one for half measures, he bludgeons the audience into submission with his between-song patter and condescending demeanor. A bit like Prince, then: halfway decent music, but do we really have to look at him? Extras are pathetic and paltry: an extended version of Space Cowboy from Jay Kay's Montreux appearance in 1995. Gee, talk about spoiling us. TONY CLAYTON-LEA