{"id":65826,"date":"2025-08-13T19:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65826\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T19:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:33:09","slug":"why-this-former-led-zeppelin-member-will-never-play-stairway-to-heaven-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65826\/","title":{"rendered":"Why This Former Led Zeppelin Member Will Never Play ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why This Former Led Zeppelin Member Will Never Play ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Again<\/a> originally appeared on Parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Led Zeppelin is one of the most iconic classic rock bands, and “Stairway to Heaven” is frequently cited as one of the greatest classic rock songs of all time. The epic eight-minute track is famed for its slow opening riff, its soft vocals, and Jimmy Page’s bombastic guitar shredding in the song’s final third.<\/p>\n

While Zeppelin broke up in 1980, the band’s three surviving members\u2014Page, singer Robert Plant, and bassist\/keyboardist John Paul Jones\u2014reunited for one night only in 2007. The event was recorded and released in 2012 as the film Celebration Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Plant, Jones, and Page are all still alive, they’ve made it clear that another reunion concert will never happen again<\/a>. Why? Because they want to remember it for what it was and leave it in that moment in time.<\/p>\n

Now, as Plant gears up to release a new album with his new band, Saving Grace, he’s revealed that he doesn’t just feel that way about performing with his old bandmates, but about performing their hit songs as well.<\/p>\n

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Plant spoke to Mojo<\/a>about the pressure from fans to play the hits\u2014and why he refuses to do it. \u201cWhat\u00a0were\u00a0the hits?” the Grammy winner asked. “How can they be related to now, where do they fit? They fit as a sort of memoir\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued to address why he’ll never play Led Zeppelin’s greatest hit. \u201cWhen people say that I don\u2019t like ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ I just don\u2019t like the\u00a0idea\u00a0of it,” Plant explained. “These iconic things \u2013 they\u2019re just what they are.”<\/p>\n

Plant has a point. Some things are better left untouched and left in a moment in time, like an iconic classic song or a whirlwind vacation romance.<\/p>\n

Saving Grace’s album, also called Saving Grace, will be released on September 26<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why This Former Led Zeppelin Member Will Never Play ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Again<\/a> first appeared on Parade on Aug 13, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Aug 13, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why This Former Led Zeppelin Member Will Never Play ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Again originally appeared on Parade. Led…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,40532,52306,27919,52305,52304,27921],"class_list":["post-65826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-jimmy-page","tag-john-paul-jones","tag-robert-plant","tag-saving-grace","tag-stairway-to-heaven","tag-zeppelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}