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Page always kept a cassette recorder around, and the idea for "Stairway to Heaven" came together from bits of taped music. [13] The first attempts at lyrics, written by Robert Plant next to an evening log fire at Headley Grange, were partly spontaneously improvised and Page claimed, "a huge percentage of the lyrics were written there and then ...
Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored is a book written by Richard Cole who was the tour manager for English rock band Led Zeppelin, from their first US tour in 1968 [1] to 1979, when he was replaced by Phil Carlo.
Stairway to Heaven won a Special Jury Remi Award at the 2008 41st WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, was shortlisted for the best spiritual documentary award at the European Spiritual Film Festival, and was included in 'The best at last' selection at the 2008 4th Globians Film Festival in Potsdam, Germany. [15] [16] [17]
The performance was in aid of the Cinematograph Trade Benevolent Fund and £30,000 (£1.57 million in 2023 pounds [17]) was raised. [16] It then went into general release in the UK on 15 December 1946. [18] The film subsequently had its US release in New York on 25 December 1946 under the name Stairway to Heaven. [19]
"Stairway to Heaven" (featuring Amelia Brightman) (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant) (original by Led Zeppelin) (8:05) French, Belgian and Portuguese bonus tracks [ edit ]
It was alleged that Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin used the descending guitar-figure from "Taurus" for Led Zeppelin's signature song "Stairway to Heaven". [4] [5] Led Zeppelin had opened for Spirit in an early American tour, providing the possibility that Led Zeppelin had heard the Spirit song before "Stairway to Heaven" was written.
Metaphors We Live By is a book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published in 1980. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book suggests metaphor is a tool that enables people to use what they know about their direct physical and social experiences to understand more abstract things like work, time, mental activity and feelings.
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]