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December 1970
- Led Zeppelin began recording "Stairway to Heaven" in December 1970 at Island Records ' new recording studios on Basing Street in London. The song was completed by the addition of lyrics by Plant during the sessions for Led Zeppelin IV at Headley Grange, Hampshire, in 1971.
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Stairway to Heaven. " Stairway to Heaven " is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on 8 November 1971 on the band's untitled fourth studio album (commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV), by Atlantic Records. Composed by the band's guitarist Jimmy Page with lyrics written by lead singer Robert Plant, it is widely regarded as one of ...
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Nov 8, 2023 · There are plenty of celebrated classic rock songs out there, but few come with such an exalted reputation as Led Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven. Originally the centrepiece of the band’s multi-million-selling fourth album, this seemingly indomitable song is now over 50 years old, yet it continues to woo new generations of fans and pick up reams of plaudits.
- Alan York
Andy Johns, sound engineer on Led Zeppelin IV, told Guitare & Claviers magazine (January 1994) about the recording session for "Stairway To Heaven": "This song arrived completed. The arrangements had been done before the band entered the studio. We recorded the main tracks upstairs, in Island, with Jimmy on acoustic guitar, John Paul on a Hohner electric upright piano, and Bonham behind his ...
Dec 3, 2017 · Maria_Pro [UG Writer] "Stairway to Heaven" is a song from the Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album (known as "Led Zeppelin IV"), released in 1971. The song originated in 1970 when Jimmy Page and ...
- “Stairway to Heaven” Features An Instrument You Played in Second Grade.
- Some Fans Think “Stairway to Heaven” Was Inspired by The Lord of The Rings.
- Even Robert Plant Isn’T 100 Percent Sure What “Stairway to Heaven” Is about.
- “Stairway to Heaven” Sounds Wicked Backwards—Literally.
- The Solo in “Stairway to Heaven” Was Completely Improvised.
- Jimmy Page Played The Solo on A “Magical guitar.”
- “Stairway to Heaven” Spawned A Copyright Infringement Case.
- “Stairway to Heaven” Was Never Released as A Single.
- The First Fans to Hear “Stairway to Heaven” Weren’T That impressed.
- “Stairway to Heaven” Is Supposedly “Forbidden” by Guitar Store employees.
In the opening section of the song, Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones traded his four-string for a recorder—that old standby of elementary school music classes—and played it with a medieval flourish. Guitarist Jimmy Page has called the passage a “poor man’s" version of Bach’s "Bourrée in E minor."
Long before Peter Jackson’s blockbuster movies, Zeppelin's band members were big fans of The Lord of the Rings. And J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy novel inspired several of their songs, including “Ramble On,” “The Battle of Evermore,” and “Misty Mountain Hop.” Many Tolkien buffs believe “Stairway” also leads straight to Middle-earth. According to ...
Plant believes the power of the song lies in its “abstraction.” “Depending on what day it is, I still interpret the song a different way—and I wrote the lyrics,” he said.
What if the lyrics to “Stairway” are so strange and convoluted because they’re actually meant to be played backwards? That was the theory of televangelist Paul Crouch, who decided in 1982 that the verse beginning around 4:19 (“If there’s a bustle …") offers a satanic message when played in reverse. This, according to Crouch, is the hidden message: ...
Page’s soaring “Stairway to Heaven” solo showcase, which was ranked by Guitar World as the greatest solo of all time, features 50 seconds of face-melting glory. Turns out the legendary axman was flying by the seat of his bell-bottoms. “The solo sounds constructed—and it is, sort of, but purely of the moment,” Page told Rolling Stonein 2008. “For me...
Zep’s lead guitarist was known to dabble in the occult, but the so-called “magical” instrument he used for his “Stairway to Heaven" solo wasn’t infested with demons or blessed by witches or anything cool like that. It was simply a 1959 Fender Telecasterhe got from fellow British shredder Jeff Beck. Page also used that Telecaster during his days wit...
In 2014, the estate of Randy California, late guitarist for the American rock band Spirit, sued Led Zeppelin for copyright infringement. The suit alleged that Zeppelin stole the “Stairway” riff from Spirit’s 1968 song “Taurus.” Zeppelin opened for Spirit on their first American tour, so it’s possible they heard “Taurus” before penning “Stairway.” B...
Led Zeppelin were not a Top 40 band. They hated the idea of reworking their songs for radio, and for years, they refused to even release singles in the UK. So it’s no surprise that “Stairway to Heaven”—an eight-minute epic you wouldn’t dream of editing—was strictly an album cut. That didn’t stop radio from playing the hell out of it. By its 20th an...
Zeppelin debuted the song on March 5, 1971, during a concert in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The crowd of assembled fans didn’t immediately begin weeping over the majesty of Plant’s lyrics and Page’s fretwork. “They were all bored to tears waiting to hear something they knew,” John Paul Jones recalled.
Nearly every budding guitarist who digs classic rock tries to learn the intro to “Stairway to Heaven” at some point. It’s practically a rite of passage. That adds up to a lot of Page wannabees fumbling through the finger picking at guitar shops. No wonder the song has been unofficially barred from being played in music stores worldwide. The ban mak...
- Kenneth Partridge
Jul 1, 2023 · With III in the can, the band entered Island Studios early in 1971 to record “Stairway”, destined for their monumental fourth album, Led Zeppelin IV. John Paul Jones blows a bucolic recorder ...
By the end of that year, “Stairway To Heaven” was the most requested song ever on American radio and was proving itself crucial in sending Led Zeppelin IV (as the untitled 1971 album is ...
