news item July 2014
An unreleased version of one of the most celebrated songs in rock, Stairway To Heaven,
is to come out later this year after sitting in the vaults for more than 40 years.
An alternative take Stairway, one of Led Zeppelin’s most famous compositions,
will be released on a new version of the band’s fourth album due out later this year.
Guitarist Jimmy Page has sifted through vintage studio recordings to find different
versions of each of the eight tracks from the Led Zeppelin IV album - which first came
out in 1971 - for a companion disc to accompany the reissue, part of a remastering of
the band’s entire catalogue.
The soon-to-be released performance of Stairway dates from a series of mixing sessions
at Sunset Sound Studio in Los Angeles.
The version which was eventually released was completed at the Island Records
studio in London.
Also to be issued the same day, October 27, is a remastered version of the group’s
House Of The Holy album which again features newly heard takes of seven of the
eight songs from that release.
An unreleased version of one of the most celebrated songs in rock, Stairway To Heaven,
is to come out later this year after sitting in the vaults for more than 40 years.
An alternative take Stairway, one of Led Zeppelin’s most famous compositions,
will be released on a new version of the band’s fourth album due out later this year.
Guitarist Jimmy Page has sifted through vintage studio recordings to find different
versions of each of the eight tracks from the Led Zeppelin IV album - which first came
out in 1971 - for a companion disc to accompany the reissue, part of a remastering of
the band’s entire catalogue.
The soon-to-be released performance of Stairway dates from a series of mixing sessions
at Sunset Sound Studio in Los Angeles.
The version which was eventually released was completed at the Island Records
studio in London.
Also to be issued the same day, October 27, is a remastered version of the group’s
House Of The Holy album which again features newly heard takes of seven of the
eight songs from that release.
