First performed at Belfast's Ulster Hall in March 1971, Stairway became a staple of Led Zeppelin's live set thereafter, and ...
Plant, now 77, has often been candid about his feelings towards 'Stairway to Heaven.' He, along with surviving bandmates Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, has emphasized that the song—and the memories ...
Former Led Zeppelin lead yowler Robert Plant has a famously conflicted relationship with the music that he made with his old band. Plant has left untold sums of money on the table, refusing to ...
Dave Grohl has always been a passionate and fastidious student of rock history, so it should come as no surprise that he paid tribute to one of the genre's titans with an off-the-cuff cover of Led ...
Led Zeppelin’s first three albums had several songs that broke the six-minute barrier. Yet “Stairway to Heaven” was their first epic in the truest sense. It was unlike any other song they’d done up to ...
Robert Plant weaved in some Tolkien in his Led Zeppelin's songs, and his bandmates never even knew. “Tolkien opened the door ...
Say the name Jimmy Page, and Led Zeppelin fans can practically close their eyes and conjure his image. They see the guitarist’s wavy black hair cascading over his face as he plays scorching solos. Or ...
Jimmy Page and studio engineer Andy Johns recalled the “paranoid” moments that led up to the recording of the guitar solo for the Led Zeppelin classic “Stairway to Heaven.” In a new feature in Classic ...
There’s no denying that “Stairway to Heaven” has major Hobbit vibes, but Robert Plant’s Led Zeppelin bandmates never realized ...