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Jimmy Page: How Stairway to Heaven was written

Video        BBC News        10 October 2014

Stairway to Heaven

was one of the biggest rock songs of the 1970s

 loved, imitated and sometimes parodied.

Now Led Zeppelin's classic track is back on the turntable,

on a re-mastered version of the band's fourth album.

43 years after its release,

the song continues to hold a place

in many music fans' hearts.

Guitarist Jimmy Page gives a personal account

of how a rock anthem came together.

Camera: Dave O'Neill, Richard Kenny.

Editing: Dave O'Neill.

Producer: Amanda Bruckshaw

YouTube > BBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDo4CA13LbY

Jimmy Page …

‘The scope of what we could do individually or collectively

was just unparalleled.’

Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth

AP

Jimmy Page: 'Robert and I went to see the Damned.

He'd probably run a mile from that now'

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Friday 24 July 2015    08.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/24/
jimmy-page-interview-robert-plant-led-zeppelin-remasters

Robert Plant, left,

and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin.

Photograph: Neal Preston

Neal Preston/Corbis

From the Observer archive, 9 March 1969:

San Francisco gives Led Zeppelin a leg up

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Sunday 8 March 2015    07.00 GMT

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/08/
observer-archive-led-zeppelin-fillmore-auditorium-1969

An image by Ron Raffaelli,

‘a superb photographer’ according to Jimmy Page.

‘I liked him very, very much.

You want to look as strong and impassioned

as the music you’re playing.’

Photograph: Ron Raffaelli

How the west was won:

inside Led Zeppelin's archive – in pictures

From studios to stadiums,

a new book delves deep into the photographic archive of Led Zeppelin,

as they became one of the biggest rock bands of all time

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Tue 9 Oct 2018    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2018/oct/09/
how-the-west-was-won-inside-led-zeppelins-archive-in-pictures

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