Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven - Dynavector DV-20X2 - Technics SL-1210 G 4K

Led Zeppelin = レッド・ツェッペリン* – IV = レッド・ツェッペリン IV
Japanese Reissue,1976, Atlantic – P-10125A Vinyl, LP, 33⅓ RPM.
Release date 8 November 1971
Manufactured by Warner-Pioneer Corporation, Made in Japan.
Recorded December 1970 – February 1971 Mixing July 1971.

The most popular song of all times from Led Zeppelin’s fourth album, ‘Stairway to
Heaven’ didn’t make the charts, because it was never released as a single for the
public. It was only the radio stations that received the single that soon went to
become a collectible for the lucky ones.

On Tuesday 13 November 2007, the whole Led Zeppelin catalog became available as
legal digital download, making every song suitable for the UK single chart. As a
result, at the end of that week the original version of ‘Stairway To Heaven’ reached
the UK single chart for the first time.
Before that, there were three cover versions: by the multinational band Far
Corporation, whose 1985 version ended up in #8, the tribute reggae version of Dread
Zeppelin reached #62 in 1991 and, finally, Rolf Harris’ reprise surpassed the other
two by reaching #7 in 1993.

Led Zeppelin began creating ‘Stairway To Heaven’ in early 1970 when they decided
to make a new epic song to replace ‘Dazed And Confused’ as the main track of their
live shows. Jimmy Page would work on the song in an 8 track studio he had
established in his boathouse, trying out different parts on guitar. Until April he told
journalists that their new song might be 15 minutes long and described it something
that would reach its climax with John Bonham’s drums not appearing for a certain
length of time. In October 1970, after almost 18 months of touring, the song was
finally ready. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant explained that they started working on
the song in a 250-year-old countryhouse in Wales that is called ‘Bron-yr-Aur
(pronounced “Bron-rar”), where they wrote the Led Zeppelin III album.

The lyrics refer to a woman that collects money only to discover in the hardest way that
her life is pointless and it would not get her in heaven. Robert Plant said that is was actually referring to “a woman that got everything she wanted without giving anything in return”.

Robert Plant- vocals, harmonica
Jimmy Page - electric and acoustic guitar
John Paul Jones - bass, electric piano, mandolin, recorders, synthesizer
John Bonham - drums


(my equipment Technics SL-1210 G, Dynavector DV-20X2, Pro-ject Phono Box RS (with linear symmetrical power supply), Hegel H590, Dynaudio Contour 30)

This is a non-profit-making channel.
The audio content doesn't belong to me. I don't make profit out of this video, I do not own copyright of the audio music. This is purely for entertainment.