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"It&amp;apos;s hard to blame Robert Plant for having pretty ambivalent feelings toward &amp;quot;Stairway to Heaven.&amp;quot; It&amp;apos;s probably the most beloved song of his long career, but every time he plays a solo gig there&amp;apos;s some chucklehead screaming for it between every song. Classic rock radio has played it roughly 10 trillion times, and he&amp;apos;s beyond sick of it. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;d break out in hives if I had to sing it every show,&amp;quot; he said in 1988. &amp;quot;I wrote those lyrics and found that song to be of some importance and consequence in 1971, but 17 years later, I don&amp;apos;t know. It&amp;apos;s just not for me . . . No more &amp;apos;Stairway to Heaven&amp;apos; for me.&amp;quot;\r\nVideo: Heart Belt Out &amp;apos;Stairway&amp;apos; for Led Zeppelin\r\nHe reunited with Jimmy Page in 1994 for an MTV Unplugged special and world tour. They broke out most every famous Led Zeppelin song, besides &amp;quot;Stairway to Heaven.&amp;quot; The closest they came was when Page played the opening notes to tease the audience at the end of &amp;quot;Babe I&amp;apos;m Gonna Leave You.&amp;quot;\r\nThey made a single exception to the rule while promoting the Unplugged CD in Japan in November of 1994. Somehow or another, a talk show convinced them to play an acoustic, abbreviated rendition of the tune. Prior to YouTube, this is the kind of thing that would exist solely on fifth-generation VHS tape circulated through the mail by diehard Zeppelin nuts, but now you can find it in about four seconds.\r\nPage and Plant returned to the road in 1998, but &amp;quot;Stairway to Heaven&amp;quot; remained firmly out of the set list. It seemed like the song was dead forever, but they did revive it one final time during Led Zeppelin&amp;apos;s one-off reunion concert in 2007. Odds are high that the phrase &amp;quot;bustle in your hedgerow&amp;quot; will never pass Plant&amp;apos;s lips again.&amp;#xA0;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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