"And every time I hear it, it makes me feel like I've just taken a musical Valium." 'The piper will lead us to reason.' so the chord shapes on the sheet music were open chords down in the first and second fret, they weren't the barre chords that Jimmy Page would play on the recording," he said. "I didn't realise that the sheet music was for beginner guitar. Naylor recalls being 11 and taping Led Zeppelin songs off the radio, before eventually buying Led Zeppelin IV on cassette, followed by the sheet music for Stairway to Heaven.
It was on AM radio in Australia that a young Ash Naylor first heard Stairway to Heaven, long before he became frontman for Melbourne band Even and go-to-guitarist for the likes of Paul Kelly, The Church and various Beatles and Led Zeppelin tributes, among others. It's all the more remarkable when you consider the song's contents - it has no conventional chorus, it opens with a medieval-sounding combination of recorders and acoustic guitar, the vocals don't start until almost one minute into the song, the drums don't join in until more than four minutes in, and the last two and a half minutes feel like a completely different song.īut radio DJs loved it, and so did the listeners. The ploy worked and Led Zeppelin IV became one of the biggest selling albums ever - in America it's one of only six albums to sell more than 20 million copies, and worldwide certified sales put it as the fifth biggest-selling record of all time.Ītlantic Records sent promo copies of Stairway to Heaven to American radio stations, which lapped up the track despite its monumental length.
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