"Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin

Do you hear a faint.... bustling? It's coming from your hedgerow.
It's not just a spring clean for the May queen... it's a new
episode of Strong Songs, straight from the Internet to your
eardrums!


Yes, Strong Songs is back from the holidays and ready for a lush
new year of thumps, pops, sizzles, and higgada-buggadas. On the
first episode of 2020, Kirk goes deep into Led Zeppelin's
"Stairway to Heaven," a song that develops with unusual subtlety,
from those quiet opening guitar arpeggios to that howling,
rocking culmination.


Band/Artist: Led Zeppelin


Album: Led Zeppelin IV (1971)


Composed by: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant


Listen/Buy via Album.Link


ALSO REFERENCED/DISCUSSED:


"Black Dog" also from Led Zeppelin IV

Clips from Wayne's World, 1992, and a Billboard
magazine retrospective with director Penelope Spheeris

"Taurus" by Spirit from Spirit, 1968

"The Mandalorian" by Ludwig Göransson from The
Mandalorian soundtrack, 2019

"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen from A Night at the
Opera, 1975

"Grace" by Jeff Buckley from Grace, 1994

A clip from Jeff Buckley Live at Sin-é (Legacy
Edition), 1993, which is a really incredible live compilation
and you should listen to it



OUTRO SOLOIST: Kirk Hamilton


Kirk is, well, the host of Strong Songs. He realized he'd never
actually done an outro solo, so he figured he'd kick off year two
by recording one. He's playing tenor sax, and there's actually a
video of him recording the solo here:
https://twitter.com/kirkhamilton/status/1214319584959877123


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