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STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN / WHOLE LOTTA LOVE

Led Zeppelin

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Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven / Whole Lotta Love album cover
4.70 | 55 ratings | 5 reviews | 82% 5 stars

Essential: a masterpiece of
rock music

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Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo, released in 1971

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Stairway to Heaven (8:02)
2. Whole Lotta Love (5:34)

Total Time 13:36

Line-up / Musicians

- Jimmy Page / guitar
- Robert Plant / vocals
- John Paul Jones / bass
- John Bonham / drums

Releases information

Atl. LZ3LC Promo

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LED ZEPPELIN Stairway to Heaven / Whole Lotta Love ratings distribution


4.70
(55 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of rock music(82%)
82%
Excellent addition to any rock music collection(11%)
11%
Good, but non-essential (2%)
2%
Collectors/fans only (4%)
4%
Poor. Only for completionists (2%)
2%

LED ZEPPELIN Stairway to Heaven / Whole Lotta Love reviews


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Review by Conor Fynes
PROG REVIEWER
5 stars 'Stairway To Heaven' - Led Zeppelin (Single)

How could it possibly get less than five stars? It would be shameful. The only reason a song like this could receive less than that would be because of it's overplayed nature, but that's only a product of the song's original quality.

All preconceptions and overpopularities aside, the song is amazing. There's a very intended buildup from acoustic to clean to distorted. Cryptic, rhythmic lyrics from Robert Plant; the soaring, perfect guitar solo from Page...

Clocking in at eight minutes, it's easy to see why Led Zeppelin can at least be considered Prog-Related from a song like this. Overplayed, yes. But when it comes down to it, an excellent song, deserving of it's title.

Masterful.

Review by AtomicCrimsonRush
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator
5 stars Stairway To Heaven is legendary and quintessential classic rock with Led Zeppelin at their best. And the real surprise on this single is the B side is another legendary song with Whole Lotta Love released from "Led Zeppelin 2".

Both are masterpieces and hallmarks of the great Led Zeppelin. The single sky rocketed them to success and the album "Led Zeppelin 4" has become one of the greatest albums of all time and in fact sits very comfortably at the top of many top 100 albums lists. The main reason is Stairway to Heaven, a song that captivates with it's spell binding lyrics about finding a way to heaven, though has dark overtones of losing the soul. The song has been played to death on radio but never loses its power.

Whole Lotta Love is infamous with a killer riff, that every guitarist knows, and a mid section that is progressive and entrancing, as there is a jazz drum section, a strange vocal that echoes toward the ears, backwards, and very weird Plantisms as he screams 'love' from the bottom end up to his highest range. There is a lot of ad libbing and crazy guitar fills here; it is quite simply a masterpiece. I rarely give a single the masterpiece status but here an exception must be made.

Latest members reviews

4 stars Review #93! 'Stairway to Heaven'. The Zeppelin track that most could go the rest of their life without hearing again. This is probably the closest Led Zeppelin ever got to a sidelong epic. Delicate guitar playing, poetic lyrics, and some outstanding Bonham drumming was just some nice ' ... (read more)

Report this review (#2920108) | Posted by Boi_da_boi_124 | Thursday, April 27, 2023 | Review Permanlink

5 stars LED ZEP if there were to remain only one, an OMNI yes, an airship even more!!! So we attack hard, since we don't know if it's prog.... but I don't care! The only album where I can put a track on replay for a whole day, good when my girlfriend is at work, we agree!!! Lets' go! 1. 'Black Dog' o ... (read more)

Report this review (#2919838) | Posted by alainPP | Wednesday, April 26, 2023 | Review Permanlink

4 stars From 1971, comes Led Zepplin's masterwork "Stairway to Heaven" paired on the b-side with another good number, "Whole Lotta Love". Can't complain about the a side at all, it is what it is. It may have been overplayed but deserved it, I think like "Boheamian Rhapsody", a cornerstone of music. "Whole L ... (read more)

Report this review (#733601) | Posted by mohaveman | Friday, April 20, 2012 | Review Permanlink

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