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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's "Stairway to Heaven" predates by 11 years Led Zeppelin's song of the same name, which was released in 1971 and written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Sedaka remarked in 2021: "You can't copyright a title, so Led Zeppelin, I forgive you!" [1]
The next recording to chart was in 1962, when Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. released the song as the B-side of a Reprise single, which peaked at #94 on the Hot 100. [5] The A-side was Davis' duet with Frank Sinatra , " Me and My Shadow ," and both tracks include banter between the singers and comical changes to the lyrics. [ 14 ]
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The ballad "Stairway to Heaven", originally issued as the B-side to "Livin' for the Weekend" and unrelated to the Led Zeppelin song of the same name, has also gone on to become a staple of quiet storm radio programming. While the title track did not chart, it still garnered airplay, as the lyrics (as well as the album artwork) focused on the ...
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.
[4] BensBeats compares the song to the Led Zeppelin song "Stairway to Heaven" saying "The band places their most obvious "Stairway to Heaven" nod yet in the album's prime third position with "Broken Bells," copy-pasting the timeless sense of awe with slightly altered chords and running through the same structure" [5]
In her song “Bad Blood,” she sends a vindictive message to an ex-friend who “made a really deep cut.” The song originally debuted on Swift’s 2014 album, “1989.”