Except for Taurus Spirit which zeppelin stole the famous riff from.

I always thought Layla (Derek and the Dominoes) made a nice mirror image to this: beginning as a rocking song and ending with that haunting piano...

Bohemian Rhapsody?

@@justinsidious9772 without this song 99,99999% of the people would never had heard of Taurus Spirit.

@@kurpe003 99.999999% of people haven't heard it. And t's sill theft.

And smoking a joint before listening to it really helps...

@@devilineden727 haha, yes indeed !

​@@Themachinegun😊😊

As Bonzo would say "What the fuckin' 'ell's going' on?"

This song entered my mind in the moments after my sister passed away. To this day I have no idea why this song entered my mind... I've been wanting to incorporate it into a possible live show to honor my sister's memory and raise money to help combat the type of cancer she suffered from for 8 years.

Boogie Wineglass Always number 1! ❤️

A masterpiece that you can't play in a guitar shop.

Put that smile back into your panties, naughty girl :-)

I want him to button up his shirt

His tailor: And on which side do you dress? Uh, never mind.

It'd be nice to look down at a YT comment section once, and not see some moron pleading for attention and laughs.

Bob Vanderveen truth!!

Bob Vanderveen wat vervelend. Hahahaha

Hahaha! Oh my God I can so relate. It was an unwritten, but universally abided-by rule that every single dance and party MUST end with Stairway to Heaven. I was in sixth grade and the new girl in school when a boy asked me to dance to this, and zoom! I was off to the races.

I've been to school dances where they danced to "Aqualung." I felt so sorry for the girls. I bet the coming of disco was like sunlight through clouds for them.

Pity they blatantly plagiarised so often.

Given what they were producing, they earned the right to swagger! They were changing music. Not following.

@@robinhodgkinson also quite some copying going on there. Did you ever listen to Muddy Waters' 'You Need Love', written by Willie Dixon.....? They did Joan Baez, Jake Holmes, Howlin' Wolf, Moby Grape, Sonny Boy Williamson, Bukka White, The Great Bert Jansch, Richie Valens, Blind Willy Johnson and some as well...... But heey, they did it in a quite 'cool' way I would say. Changing the thing? IDK, maybe! Maybe not! Innovators? For me, no! But I kind of like them anyway. My youth was around their peak, so....

@@marcjacobs5988 oh God another moron saying they copied. Almost every single song that they "copied" is indecipherable from the original. Yes, the basis of the song is the same, but the structure and overall melody is completely different.

@@iggystardust9236 Muddy Waters - 'I Need Love' vs Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love. Lyrics: similar, definitely copied. Structure: similar, definitely copied. Melody: similar, definitely copied. But you are quite right. I am a moron. Who cares? I actually don't. It's easy to call names, I'm not really into that game from the start; Later on perhaps. You probably right about the structure and melody being different and all. I know shit about that stuff. But I listened to pop music obsessively the last 55 years (also check out my uploads, and don't forget to dislike them all :-) ) and my conclusion with just the one song I mentioned above (there are others in my humble opinion) is: NO 'Whole Lotta Love' in that beautiful particular form as it is, without 'I Need Love'. I do feel all the jazz and what came out of it came more or less out of Ravel and the blues and rhythm & blues out of the field/folk music, but that's not really what I mean here. I do feel/know everything is this popular music field is linked in a way, so one can hide behind that anytime. I just mean: NO 'Whole Lotta Love' without 'I Need Love' Copy! No problem. I like Led Zeppelin and their 'interpretations' quite a bit actually. 'Over the hills and far away' is amazing in my humble opinion, but I'm just saying... Take care rude boy.

"So we nicked the opening..."

Yep, me too.

@@oldbatwit5102 And Free Bird

@@porkchopspapi5757 You had to bring that one up, just when I thought I had managed to forget it. Please, please stop right there.

@@oldbatwit5102 every band that came through Okinawa Japan in 1979 played it.

That is for sure. You can add Knights in White Satin to the list and many others.

You now he steal a lot from other music? But he is afcourse a great guitar player.

lars bauman didn’t know that

Randy California

tee nutters

lars bauman there's no stealing in art, there's influencing, inspiring… and petty ppl who can't live with their contributing to the growth of human expression without it being accompanied by monetary gain.

Its too powerful

Maybe you were thinking about death seeing how you will be climbing the stair way to heaven?

I once heard Robert Plant say in an interview that it's about a lady who becomes very rich and then thinks that being rich maybe isn't quite as good as she thought it would be. "She's buying the stairway to heaven". Back in the 1980's Robert Plant walked into the barbers shop where my sister worked and she did his hair. (Not casting aspersions on Mr Plant but my sister originally trained as a lady's hairdresser, so doing his long hair was easy).

Not backwards they are quite evil!!

I never made an interpretation of my own but a friend who used to take me to all these diferent churches - and even too see Billy Graham at Wembley once - became convinced they referred to the occult and had Satanic references,especially the May Queen. I admit I never took the time to try and fathom whether there was anything in that or not.

It’s the devil prophesying the Virgin Mary coming and defeating him satan. Where do you think he got those lyrics from all the sudden? The devil will tell the truth. Look how nervous he is about his own conclusions about the song.

@@oliviawolf_1213 you know (who) killed jesus - they claim palestine is their land

@@rjjcms1 abrahamism is satanic - heathenism is nature/God

Freebird

Yeah i do alot of vai and dimebag darrell style leads mixed with my own flavors

Make a bargain with it & hold up your end, some get a little help along the way to create something memorable.

DuffMan790 huh

@@DuffMan790 Rats and staR

@@DuffMan790 spot on. When you give yourself over to something that controls you 😉

donfishing Alway the last song at our school dances, the dance was done and yes awkward to dance too.

If I hear Freebird again I'll puke. It was about that time I gave up on radio. How many times a day can you hear the same shit over and over?

Moi sussi

You'd end up losing your wallet to that fucking crook.

I prefer In The Evening. But hey, each to their own, let's not argue. Peace.

@@solitarianihilista1454 Battle of Evermore, then When the Levee breaks.

Would that be a cheese roll?

That's awesome to think about. So much strong imagery in the lyrics to turn into decorations or things to wear. I bet it was every bit as memorable as the song is.

Whoa, that's crazy!

ElfSixDave I distinctly remember my 50th birthday so when I read your comment, it sent me down memory lane..... I'm about 20 years older than you and I'm here to tell you this......You need to live life to its fullest, don't take anything for granted, be truthful with the people around you, don't take "a bunch" of drugs( in moderation, ok?). Don't take shit off of people but you have to cut some people some slack because they're just assholes......because you're going to wake up one morning and realize you are 65 years old and you will say "what the fuck happened here....where has the time gone?" So....Live it up now, brother!.....and hopes that you have a fulfilling life. ✌️🍄🍸💊🎵✌

There's another video where he delves a bit deeper into the song 😀

A genius ? He has never composed quality melody in his life. He plagiarised often. The only beautiful part of Stairway he stole.

@tjcint I'm talking about his craftsmanship with a guitar ,I'm not getting into the other stuff ,I'm not sufficiently well informed to make an informed comment

Hahaha , but not enough to avoid a plagiarism suit. I love reading , when people slaver over this drivel . Particularly when it's the band themselves . Played this live a few times . Nobody liked it .

Waynes world lol 😂

Meh, it's alright. Lyrically it doesn't uphold to Nicki Minaj's classic hit "Stupid Hoe". But this Let Zapplin boyband is okay too I guess...

Two generations of adolescent hetero white suburban males think it's good.

@@AlphaMaximus808 😂😂

@@AlphaMaximus808 Classic comment!

Leftatalbuquerque and some of us are even females!

Of course not. It's bullshit, not literature.

Yep, like all their best songs. The realm of other songwriters.

@@chasleask8533 yeah, there's that too lol. "Borrowed"

I'll be the 23rd. Fuck Jimmy Page the ripoff artist.

LZ could have found enough under their couch cushions to make Spirit happy, but no. A shame, as I like both bands.

There never were that many Spirit fans.

The members of Spirit aren't alive, you dolt. The people doing the suing are trying to make a quick buck while supposedly representing their estate

And Jake Holmes