Stairway to Heaven

1971 – Ten days before the Ides of March, Led Zeppelin played Stairway to Heaven for the first time ever in front of a live concert audience in Belfast’s Ulster…

Stairway To Heaven is arguably the most beloved song in the rock ‘n roll canon. Yet – as with all things beloved – there’s a too cool for school subset…

I was lucky to have had the opportunity to see Dread Zeppelin during their heyday. It was May of 1991 – 3 days before the band’s second album, 5,000,000 (*Tortelvis Fans…

It’s always a cause for celebration to discover a really good cover of Stairway on YouTube. When that cover is performed by young people it makes the discovery all the…

Stairway to Heaven is a very difficult song to pull off live for any band, but Italy’s The Blind Monkeys do a fabulous job trying to deliver a live Zep-styled…

Do you know what a line cliché is? It’s called a line cliché for a reason because it’s a common as day musical idiom (hence being called a cliché) used…

Because it has to been seen in its majesty! The Smashing Pumpkins are back folks and this is awesome. Billy Corgan, James Iha, & Jimmy Chaimberlain and Co. perform Stairway…

… Forgive me for the puns in the title, but this version of Stairway is so enchantingly wonderful I just couldn’t help myself. It’s not everyday that you hear someone…

This is one of those “Holy Smokes!!” renditions of Stairway that leave you in awe of what is just a superlative talent on guitar. From the inventiveness of his arrangement,…