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| | The Straight Dope: Whats the story behind Led Zepplins "Stairway to Heaven?" |
 | | My two favorite songs are "Hotel California" and "Stairway to Heaven." You explained HC very well, but S2H remains a mystery. |
 | | According to band lore, Robert Plant composed most of the lyrics in a single day during sessions at Headley Grange, a former poorhouse in Hampshire, England, then being used by rock groups as a rehearsal space and studio. |
 | | In sum, we've got the well-known psychosociochemical influences of the era, we've got an extremely compressed compositional time frame, and we've got a poetical sensibility that, to be objective about it (and believe me, I like "Stairway to Heaven"), probably rates between 2 and 3 millishakespeares. |
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