LED ZEPPELIN: AN ETERNAL STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

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Crossing The Carpats on The Orient Express is a mystic experience, even better, if you are listening one of the best rock bands of the history. The Grandma wants to talk about Led Zeppelin and their most beautiful song: Stairway to heaven.

 
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. The band's heavy, guitar-driven sound, rooted in blues and psychedelia on their early albums, has earned them recognition as one of the progenitors of heavy metal, though their unique style drew from a wide variety of influences, including folk music.

After changing their name from the New Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin signed a deal with Atlantic Records that afforded them considerable artistic freedom. Although the group was initially unpopular with critics, they achieved significant commercial success with albums such as Led Zeppelin (1969), Led Zeppelin II (1969), Led Zeppelin III (1970), Led Zeppelin IV (1971), Houses of the Holy (1973), and Physical Graffiti (1975). Their fourth album, which features the track Stairway to Heaven, is among the most popular and influential works in rock music, and it helped to secure the group's popularity.

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Led Zeppelin are widely considered one of the most successful, innovative, and influential rock groups in history. Its music was rooted in the blues. The influence of American blues artists such as Muddy Waters and Skip James was particularly apparent on their first two albums, as was the distinct country blues style of Howlin' Wolf. Tracks were structured around the twelve-bar blues on every studio album except for one, and the blues directly and indirectly influenced other songs both musically and lyrically.  

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The band were also strongly influenced by the music of the British, Celtic, and American folk revivals.

Scottish folk guitarist Bert Jansch helped inspire Page, and from him he adapted open tunings and aggressive strokes into his playing. 

The band also drew on a wide variety of genres, including world music, and elements of early rock and roll, jazz, country, funk, soul, and reggae, particularly on Houses of the Holy and the albums that followed.

The band began their first tour of the UK on 4 October 1968, they still were billed as the New Yardbirds, and played their first show as Led Zeppelin at the University of Surrey in Guildford on 25 October.  During the 1970s, Led Zeppelin reached new heights of commercial and critical success that made them one of the most influential groups of the era, eclipsing their earlier achievements.

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After the death of Bonham on 25 September 1980, the remaining members of Led Zeppelin decided to disband the group.

A 4 December 1980 press statement stated that, We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend, and the deep sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were. The statement was signed simply Led Zeppelin.

Right from the first time 

we went to America in 1968, L

ed Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. 

You can't really compare it to how it is today.  

Jimmy Page