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"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 the greatest rock ...
Sedaka described the song as a "sandwich song:" the main verses and chorus, the "meat" of the song, are enveloped in a "bread," a short musical snippet repeated at the beginning and end of the song (in this case, the phrase "Climb up, way up high").
The latter included the track "Stairway to Heaven", [37] which would become the most played song in the history of album-oriented radio. [38] Deep Purple continued to define their unique brand of hard rock, particularly with their album Machine Head (1972), which included the tracks "Highway Star" and "Smoke on the Water". [39]
The music video featured a then-unique "life on tour" theme parallel to the song's lyrics, showing the band's performances in different venues and their travels around the USA. Steve Perry can be seen shaving his short-lived but talked-about moustache in the video.
Popmatters said the lyrics "speak a line so true it's as if it's been part of our collective unconscious for years, but it just took Dan Auerbach to bring it out. The line is simple but crushingly true, sung over a ' Stairway to Heaven '-esque progression: 'I should have seen it glow, but everybody knows that a broken heart is blind.'
The single's UK release featured comedian Tony Hancock on its front cover. [5] The different cover art for the international single release is a still from the 1946 film A Matter of Life and Death [6] (also titled in the US Stairway to Heaven [7]) created by Powell and Pressburger, [citation needed] permitted for use by Rank Film Distributors.
"Stairway to Heaven" is an R&B single by Pure Soul. It was the final single from their debut album. It was the final single from their debut album. A radio-remix of the single was serviced to radio featuring The O'Jays , who originally recorded the song on their Family Reunion album in 1975.
In a contemporary review for Houses of the Holy, Gordon Fletcher of Rolling Stone criticized "Over the Hills and Far Away", calling the track dull, as well as writing the track is "cut from the same mold as "Stairway to Heaven", but becomes dull without that song's torrid guitar solo". [11] The song has received greater acclaim in more recent ...