Jason Bonham

Carrying the surname Bonham is both a gift and a life sentence, and what moves me about Jason is that he never hid from it. Losing his father at fourteen could have ended any thought of drumming, yet he climbed onto the throne anyway and, at the 2007 O2 reunion, made Led Zeppelin breathe again. I don't read that night as imitation; I read it as a son turning grief into rhythm. From working-class Dudley he inherited a beat in his blood and made it his own. To me he embodies the idea that inheriting a legacy means shouldering it, not merely echoing it.

Name (English)

Jason Bonham

Name (Japanese)

ジェイソン・ボーナム

Reading

じぇいそん・ぼーなむ

Born

July 15, 1966 (age 60)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Horse

Origin

Dudley, United Kingdom

Occupation

drummer / actor / film actor / musician

• Official sitehttps://www.jasonbonham.net
• Xhttps://x.com/jason_bonham
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Bonham
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q378072

Tags

• drummer
• actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-17

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