Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven - '70s Guitar Solos

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Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven

Good things, those who wait, etc.: After six minutes of Tolkien-inspired gobbledygook—"a bustle in your hedgerow"? Come on, people!—Jimmy Page steps up to blast a solo that (admit it) defined an era. Page starts with the 1958 Telecaster he used with the Yardbirds before doing a call-and-response with an overdubbed slide guitar. Then he finishes with this pull-off thing that sounds as good on the 1,000th listen as it did on the first. An integral chapter in rock's greatest epic, it leaves only one question: Which came first—air guitar or Stairway?

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Guitarist: Jimmy Page
Album: Led Zeppelin IV
Year: 1971
Length of solo: :48
Guitars used: 1958 Fender Telecaster, Harmony acoustic, Fender Electric XII
Where recorded: Basing Street Studios, London; Headley Grange, Hampshire, U.K.
Alternate YouTube version: Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and Jeff Beck, live, 1983

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