Led Zeppellin

Ed J says:

Dear people can you hear the wind blow and did you know, our stairway lies
on the whispering wind. 

Edward Jameel says:

That’s real rock n roll..

NoMercy says:

I had this DVD but can’t fucking find it….aaaaaaaaaaaaargh. It was epic. 

sue marshall says:

Most amazing song ever! Just Outrageously Awesome!

Felipe Marinho says:

amazing, this is true gold

emerson galvao says:

Its the devils music. 

mrdmm0999 says:

All this real music and they never once grabbed at their balls….I guess
too busy actually making music???

Hernán Bonilla says:

One of the Best songs

Donato De Nicola. Vitae Dolor says:

Led Zeppelin
Starway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin are a popular British band best known for their hit ‘Stairway
to Heaven’ as well as for co-creating the music genre of heavy metal. Since
their nine albums were recorded between 1968 and 1979, Led Zeppelin has
been one of the most popular bands of all time, having sold more than 300
million records and millions of concert tickets worldwide.

The quartet was conceived at the end of the Hippie love era, in a group
marriage of blues, rock and roll, soul, rockabilly, folk ballad, jazz,
classical and Oriental music, and something else scattered over some woozy
sounds of their songs. It was their mutual artistic stimulation, their
group interplay and imagination that incorporated mythology and mysticism,
and concocted their inimitable style, and established the concept of
album-oriented rock career.

Jimmy Page was already an experienced lead guitarist who worked with
multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones in 1967, and they agreed to work on
the next project. In August 1968 Page invited Robert Plant and John Bonham
to join his band, the New Yardbirds, for a September tour in Scandinavia.
In October 1968 they took the name Led Zeppelin, which stemmed from a
humorous conversation among several musicians about their chances of going
down like a lead balloon. However, British bands were highly anticipated in
the USA, and the Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun signed the new band
without even seeing them.

Their debut album, ‘Led Zeppelin’, recorded and mixed in just about 36
hours in October 1968, at Olympic Studios in London, kicked open the door
for all extremes and experiments. The phallic image of the blown up
Hindenburg airship on the cover, designed by George Hardie, announced the
hardening of rock and coming of the new super-group. While ascending to
musical success as a powerhouse band, Led Zeppelin explored a variety of
styles, from English folk ballads to blues and rock, and created their own
inimitable style.

Prior to the release of their first album, Led Zeppelin made live
appearances at the University of Surrey and in London in October 1968, then
went on their first American tour in December 1968. In their first year,
Led Zeppelin made four concert tours in the USA, and another four tours in
the UK. Their second album was recorded entirely on the road at several
American recording studios, and was an even greater success than the first
one. ‘Whole Lotta Love’, ‘Heartbraker’, ‘Living, Loving Maid’, and ‘Ramble
On’ became big international hits.

Each member of the quartet contributed to their compositions, thus setting
a fine example of group creativity. Their songs and albums rambled on with
the highly versatile voice-guitar interplay. Plant’s incredible vocal range
and Page’s enchanting guitar solos were as responsible for the band’s
singularity as its musical wanderlust. Plant’s and Page’s musicianship was
supported by the tight playing by John Paul Jones on bass, and John Bonham
on drums. The intense interaction of all four players on stage gave their
live performances a visual counterpoint to well intertwined harmonic and
rhythmic structures of their compositions.

Their third album, Led Zeppelin III, influenced by folk and Celtic music,
offered more inventiveness with acoustic/electric sound-work, and revealed
more of the band’s versatility with such compositions as the ‘Immigrant
Song’ and ‘Since I’ve Been Loving You’. With the release of their 4th, and
most popular album, Led Zeppelin achieved a reputation of the biggest band
in the world. ‘Stairway to Heaven’ became the most played radio hit,
several other songs became rock classics, and nobody knows how many more
times their lines would help other musicians (like the opening riff from
‘How Many More Times’ was later used by Pink Floyd in their hit ‘Money’).

Capitalizing on the success of their first four albums, the band toured
extensively in the 1970s. At that time they chartered a private jet,
nicknamed The Starship, that carried the band’s name and later added the
famous ‘Swan Song’ winged Apollo image on the tail. Going to California
turned into a ritual of wildness and excess, most notably at the Hyatt
House hotel on the Sunset strip in Los Angeles, known colloquially as the
“Riot House” for a series of some most exciting off-stage events, such as
riding a motorcycle inside the hotel and throwing TV set out of the window.
Another scandal known as the ‘shark episode’, down by the seaside, in a
Seattle hotel, had contributed to their enormous popularity. One of their
concerts under a heavy thunderstorm in Florida ended with police using tear
gas, and led to a temporary pause in their concert tours.

During the 70s their career was interrupted several times by accidents,
deaths and other unfortunate events. In 1980 John Bonham was getting sick
again and again, until he shook many by his death, leaving others dazed and
confused. It was nobody’s fault but his. In December 1980, Led Zeppelin
disbanded, albeit the public could still feel their presence. In 1982 a
collection of out-takes from various sessions from the 70s was released as
their last album, Coda. During the 80s the remaining three members
experienced a serious communication breakdown, until they briefly united
for a short set in 1985, and once again, in 1988, to play with Bonham’s
son, Jason, for the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary show.

In 1994 Page and Plant showed their softer side when they performed live
together on ‘MTV Unplugged’, which was released the same year as album
titled ‘No quarter’. Then they made an international tour with an
orchestra. In 1995 Page and Plant were joined by Jones when the band was
indicted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, albeit the three former
band-mates did not perform together. By that time Jimmy Page as well as
Robert Plant had pursued individual careers touring and recording with
their own bands.

Another ten years gone. Page’s and Plant’s call-and-response interplay took
them through good times and bad times. Their sonic originality had sparked
imagination and creativity in millions of open minds. Singers, songwriters,
armies of music fans and a rainbow of dedicated ‘led heads’, as well as
guitarists and guitar collectors worldwide remained united through the
acquired experience and conditioning to the Led Zep sounds.

Hats off to Led Zeppelin, who opened the new extremes of musical
expression, and are now back in the light confirming their presence. Their
long anticipated reunion in December 2007 was a true celebration day. Their
live performance was as tight as a rock band can be, and their living,
loving song remains the same since we’ve been loving them. That’s the way!

Amin Eft says:

and just with a change in the chord rhythm the whole mood of the song
changes…

juan azocar says:

hermanos esto es energia……………………….led zeppelin lejos
lo mejor……………………

Maurice King says:

Rock at.its best

James Amerson says:

Stairway to Heaven is still the song of my generation. I just turned 58 in
May, that should speak for itsself.

David-John Hill says:

Great tune.brilliant guitar work!

Adrienne Allison says:

My dad likes you !! 

Ricardo Magallon says:

quiero ver el video completo

wjb111 says:

AWESOME!!!!

K Darth says:

Brilliant! Go Jimmy;] btw

jack jill says:

AC/DC – Highway To Hell and Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven…BOTH ARE
FUCKING AMAZING!

Sasha Glisovic says:

STAIRWAY TO KURAC

John Dooling says:

more zone.

Maria Elizabeth de Freitas says:

Led Zeppelin, demais!

IronOrePickaxe says:

Did Robert Plant seem bored to anyone else, or is it just me?

Silvia Gregori says:

42 anni in italia una marea di stolcking sessuale! mio padre un pervertito 

JOHN PAUL Jones says:

Prefer Rolf Harris version