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6] Although he helped create one of the most iconic album covers of all time, Hardie doesn't rate it highly. Highly sought after by record collectors, an original turquoise version fetched $1,890 (around £1,450) on eBay in 2012. Weeks later, the colours were switched to the now familiar orange version. 50 facts about Led Zeppelin's album covers:ĥ] The very short-lived initial 'Led Zeppelin' pressings – estimated to be less than 2,000 copies - featured the album title and Atlantic Records logo in turquoise. Yesterday it was announced that Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson were among the recipients of the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from The Recording Academy. I went, ‘I'm here!’ and it was crickets (silence).” “I know that because there was a minute when the rumour was that they were auditioning singers and I just threw my hat in the ring. “(Led) Zeppelin always was a boy’s club,” Wilson said. Speaking to Professor of Rock in 2021, Heart’s Ann Wilson said the Kennedy Center Honors performance was an “amazing, astounding moment for us.”Īnn Wilson exclusively told Planet Rock last year that she offered to audition as Led Zeppelin's new vocalist 15 years ago. The whole choreography of it was blindingly sort of a 'we’re not worthy' moment.'

It wasn’t really about who did a great job, although Ann’s a spectacular singer. 'But that night at the Kennedy Center, it made me remember that I had some responsibility, for better or worse, for that song. Somehow it was something very, very special, which I don’t really have a great connection to. But perhaps one of the things about 'Stairway to Heaven' was that the development of the song was exactly that. It’s just like, ' Oh my God'.”Ĭontinuing to heap praise on the performance, Plant said: “Some people are completely trapped in their achievements, and that must be real hell. It kills me in two or three different ways. Plant added: “It’s just a magnificent performance to watch and it kills me every time. Reflecting upon Heart’s rendition, he continued: “I knew it was coming - the Kennedy Center told us to expect something - but I didn’t know how it was going to be. Something out of a clay pipe that had been blown with soap.”

It was like a beautiful feather, balloon, or bubble. It was no longer ours and neither should it be.” In a new interview with Vulture, Robert Plant has hailed Heart’s live version of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ as “magnificent”, “spectacular” and a real “we’re not worthy moment.”Įxplaining that ‘Stairway to Heaven’ is such a big song it has its “own life”, Plant said: “(The song) began intimate and vulnerable and sincere, and then the years carried on.

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