Whilst some of the songs from Led Zeppelin’s classic fourth album came in frantic, capture-the-lightning bursts of creativity, the record’s most famous song was long-laboured over by Jimmy Page.
Even at Bron-yr-Aur, the Welsh cottage where Page and Robert Plant worked on material ahead of recording sessions proper, the music for Stairway To Heaven was already well underway. Page had spent months slowly navigating his way through its minor chord splendour in his home studio in Pangbourne, working out its differing sections and laying down six and 12-string guitar parts on his eight-track.
