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This is the only part Plant would really explain, as he said it was “a woman getting everything she wanted without giving anything back.” The lyrics take some pretty wild turns, but the beginning of the song is about a woman who accumulates money, only to find out the hard way her life had no meaning and will not get her into heaven. When asked why the song was so popular, he said it could be its “abstraction,” adding, “Depending on what day it is, I still interpret the song a different way – and I wrote the lyrics.” Robert Plant spent much of the ’70s answering questions about the lyrics he wrote for Stairway. It was mostly written by Page, with lyrics by Robert Plant. The album is notable for featuring Stairway to Heaven, which has been described as the band’s signature song.
The untitled fourth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV, was produced by guitarist Jimmy Page and recorded between December 1970 and February 1971, mostly in the country house Headley Grange.
