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Stairway to Heaven: Great or Overrated?

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Re: Stairway to Heaven: Great or Overrated?

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I heard once that the main verse of Stairway was written by Robert Plant one night when he was high on drugs. When he woke up, the lyrics were scribbled on a napkin.

Never been able to find if it's true or not. It's probably a greatly exaggerated rock legend.

Re: Stairway to Heaven: Great or Overrated?

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I heard once that the main verse of Stairway was written by Robert Plant one night when he was high on drugs. When he woke up, the lyrics were scribbled on a napkin. Never been able to find if it's true or not. It's probably a greatly exaggerated rock legend.

I don't think the act of getting high and scribbling lyrics on napkins is exactly a low probability event for rock stars, so there could be a good chance this is actually true. :)
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