Chords for Robert Plant Talks About Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven' | The Big Interview

_ [F] _ [Am] There is one song, however, [C] that is in a [D] category all its own.
[F] The eight-minute masterpiece, Stairway to Heaven.
_ [Am] There's a lady [E] who's sure
[C] All that glitters is [Bm] gold
[F] And she's buying _ [Em] sterile
[Am] To hell and home
In 1971, the music was [E] composed by Jimmy Page
[Am] and the lyrics were written by [D] Robert Plant.
All [Dm] these years later, [F] it still [Em] resonates with so many young and old.
[Am] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _
Rolling [B] Stone magazine readers [Am] called it
the best [C] song in rock & roll [G] history.
Stairway [D] to heaven
Now, [N]
Stairway to Heaven, a lot of people consider it
the most classic song of Led Zeppelin time.
But it's my understanding that while you will perform it,
it's not your favorite thing to perform.
Well, it's not about it being my favorite or not.
It's nothing _ to do with that, really.
It's just that it belongs to a particular time.
_ If I had been involved in the instrumentation,
I would feel that it's a magnificent piece of music
which has its own _ character and personality.
It even speeds up in a similar way to some pieces of more highbrow music.
But my contribution was to write lyrics and to sing a song
about fate and something very British, almost _ abstract.
_ But it was coming out of the mind of a 23-year-old guy, you know.
And _ _ it landed in the years and the era of 23-year-old guys.
And I think as time goes on, you find that you may find
another period of your life has got a little bit more substance
or is more relative later on down the line, you know.
So as much as I like it, _ _ I'm not wedded to that whole deal now.
Now, true or untrue, that Kashmir is your personal all-time favorite?
Yeah, I think it probably_
Well, it was a great achievement to take such a monstrously dramatic
musical piece and find _ _ a lyric that _ was ambiguous enough
and a delivery which was not over-pumped.
Just, it almost was like the antithesis of the music
was this kind of lyric and this vocal delivery
that was just about enough to get in there, you know.
But it's your all-time, your personal all-time favorite?
Well, I mean, there's such a variety of [D] songs
that I guess I would have to go along.
Today, I'd have to say yes.
_ Tomorrow may be something else.
Yeah, exactly. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I like the sound of me now
I [Bm] think it's long [D] since been dreaming
While Kashmir may be Robert Plant's favorite song,
[Am] one of his most personal songs was All [G] My Love.
_ _ [D] _ He wrote the ballad [G] for his son, Carrick.
_ Carrick [Dm] died of a stomach virus [G] at the age of five
[D] while Plant was on an American tour with Led Zeppelin.
_ [Am]
Plant left the [G] band immediately
to spend the [Am] next several months grieving with his family.
Just a [G] feather in [D] the wind
_ [Am] _ _
[A] All My Love.
I know that it's difficult for you to talk [N] about it
because you wrote that in the wake of your son's death
in the mid-70s.
And as a parent, I know whatever the parent knows.
That your terror in life is that one of your children
will die before you do.
And I recognize it.
But tell me what you can and what you will about All My Love. _ _ _
Uh, yeah.
_ I think it was just paying tribute to the joy
that he gave us as a family, you know.
And in a crazy way, still does, occasionally.
His mother and I often_
I mean, the memory gets_
changes.
_ The contrast and the focus changes as time goes on.
It's a long time ago that we lost him, 40 years ago.
And we were blessed with another boy
who came along about two years later.
_ And the two images are blurred.
The definition between Carrick and Logan is_
It's a tough one, too.
_ _ Chipped through the two things.
But he was a little nature boy, you know.
[F] He was_
he was a _ mountain man.
_ _ [N] _
_ How did you get through that?
_ Well, it wasn't easy, especially in the light of the fact
that there's a_
the whole hysteria that surrounded the mid- to late-70s was_
It was anything but conducive to normal family life.
_ _ But we pulled tight together and_
_ and both my wife and I, we had strong families, so_
And good support.
I mean, John Bonham from Zeppelin and his wife, Pat,
they were magnificent with us and helped us a lot.
And we lived pretty close together, a long way from London,
so we were kind of local people.
_ _ _ _ And local community, I'm still in the same place, really, more or less.
There's nothing that_
There's no words that are anywhere to be found
that can tell you about the sort of huge abyss.
I wrote another song about him called I Believe,
which was on an album in 1992, and it was_
And every now and again, he turns up in songs, you know,
for no other reason than I miss him a lot. _ _
Well, grief is such an individual, uniquely individual thing,
it's such an intimate thing
that nobody can give anybody advice about grief.
But going through what you did, losing a son, and a young son at that,
is there any word maybe of counsel that you can give
to someone who's looking in on this and saying,
you know, I lost somebody recently?
Well, _ as you say, it's such an individual _ _ phenomena,
or just piece of real bad luck.
And I don't know how many people have been in the public eye
to such a garish degree as that_
You know, that's what happened to us.
I know other guys who do what I do who've lost kids,
and _ because we're kind of public property, in a way,
for all that we're not, because there's so much hidden,
we're still public property.
So our conditions and our luck and our bad luck
and our whole circumstances are there for public discussion.
That's how it works, you know.
So when it's tough, it's really tough,
I would just say I can't imagine how people get through it.
_ There's no