About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 37. Chapters: Absolutely Free (song), Advance Romance, America Drinks and Goes Home, Are You Hung Up?, A Token of My Extreme, Billy the Mountain, Bobby Brown (song), Brown Shoes Don't Make It, Camarillo Brillo, Cheepnis, Cocaine Decisions, Cosmik Debris, Dancin' Fool, Disco Boy, Don't Eat the Yellow Snow Suite, Duodenum (song), Find Her Finer, Four Deuces, I'm the Slime, Inca Roads (song), It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal, I Don't Wanna Get Drafted, Jewish Princess (song), Joe's Garage (song), Let's Make the Water Turn Black, Memories of El Monte, Montana (Frank Zappa song), Muffin Man (song), My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama, Peaches en Regalia, Plastic People, Sleep Dirt (instrumental), Sofa (Frank Zappa song), Stairway to Heaven, Sunshine of Your Love, Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance, The Adventures of Greggery Peccary, The Black Page, The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet, The Torture Never Stops (song), Trouble Every Day (song), Valley Girl (song), What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?, Who Are the Brain Police?, Who Needs the Peace Corps?, Willie the Pimp, Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station, You Are What You Is (song). Excerpt: "Stairway to Heaven" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released in late 1971. It was composed by guitarist Jimmy Page and vocalist Robert Plant for the band's untitled fourth studio album (often referred to as Led Zeppelin IV). It is often referred to as one of the greatest rock songs of all time. The song, running eight minutes and two seconds, is composed of several sections, which increase in tempo and volume as the song progresses. The song begins as a slow acoustic-based folk song accompanied by recorders before electric instrumentation is introduced. The final section is a high-tempo hard rock section highlighted by an intricate guitar solo by Page. Stairway to Heaven was voted #3 in 2000 by VH1 on its list of the 100 Greatest Rock Songs, and was placed at number 31 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time." It was the most requested song on FM radio stations in the United States in the 1970s, despite never having been officially released as a single there. In November 2007, through download sales promoting Led Zeppelin's Mothership release, "Stairway to Heaven" hit #37 on the UK Singles Chart. The recording of "Stairway to Heaven" commenced in December 1970 at Island Records' new Basing Street Studios in London. The song was completed by the addition of lyrics by Plant during the sessions for Led Zeppelin IV at Headley Grange, Hampshire, in 1971. Page then returned to Island Studios to record his guitar solo. The song originated in 1970 when Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were spending time at Bron-Yr-Aur, a remote cottage in Wales, following Led Zeppelin's fifth American concert tour. According to Page, he wrote the music "over a long period, the first part coming at Bron-Yr-Aur one night." Page always kept a cassette recorder around, and the idea for "Stairway" came together from bits of taped music: I had these pieces, these guitar pieces, that I wanted to put together. I had a whole idea of a piece of music that
