Led Zeppelin have once again proven themselves to be a universally liked powerhouse of a band, as actor Mike Myers claims to have taken Beyoncé under his influential wing and introduced her to the mystique of the Robert Plant-led iconoclasts.
Any mild fan of the Austin Powers series — of which Myers recently teased a potential fourth film — will remember a young Bey starring alongside Myers as Foxxy Cleopatra in the 2002 film Austin Powers in Goldmember, just as she was seeing the start of her Destiny's Child career explode.
As Myers reflected on shooting the movie in a new Vanity Fair interview, he recalled how Beyoncé showed an interest in his musical preferences.
"She would always listen to music and she said to me, 'Mike, what are you listening to right now?' And I said, "Oh, I'm just listening to Led Zeppelin at the moment,'" he remembered. "And she said, 'I think I'll listen to that Led Zeppelin.' She had never heard of it. She was so young, and the crew was all, 'Aww!'"
He continued: "And then the next day, she was doing this [miming holding onto headphones], and I said, 'What are you listening to?' She went, 'Led Zeppelin! They're great!'"
As the tour-de-force that is Beyoncé continued to grow, so did her love of Led Zeppelin; Myers' introduction would continue to pay off later when she sampled the band's 1971 hit "When the Levee Breaks" on her potent 2016 album, Lemonade. Meanwhile, bandleader Plant has since become the guy on the Led Zeppelin IV album cover.
Elsewhere in the interview, Myers also gave a quick shoutout to Aurora, ON, which shares its name with Aurora, IL, where Wayne's World is set.
Watch the rest of the Vanity Fair interview below.
Read Exclaim!'s review of Myers' new Netflix series, The Pentaverate.
Any mild fan of the Austin Powers series — of which Myers recently teased a potential fourth film — will remember a young Bey starring alongside Myers as Foxxy Cleopatra in the 2002 film Austin Powers in Goldmember, just as she was seeing the start of her Destiny's Child career explode.
As Myers reflected on shooting the movie in a new Vanity Fair interview, he recalled how Beyoncé showed an interest in his musical preferences.
"She would always listen to music and she said to me, 'Mike, what are you listening to right now?' And I said, "Oh, I'm just listening to Led Zeppelin at the moment,'" he remembered. "And she said, 'I think I'll listen to that Led Zeppelin.' She had never heard of it. She was so young, and the crew was all, 'Aww!'"
He continued: "And then the next day, she was doing this [miming holding onto headphones], and I said, 'What are you listening to?' She went, 'Led Zeppelin! They're great!'"
As the tour-de-force that is Beyoncé continued to grow, so did her love of Led Zeppelin; Myers' introduction would continue to pay off later when she sampled the band's 1971 hit "When the Levee Breaks" on her potent 2016 album, Lemonade. Meanwhile, bandleader Plant has since become the guy on the Led Zeppelin IV album cover.
Elsewhere in the interview, Myers also gave a quick shoutout to Aurora, ON, which shares its name with Aurora, IL, where Wayne's World is set.
Watch the rest of the Vanity Fair interview below.
Read Exclaim!'s review of Myers' new Netflix series, The Pentaverate.
