Covering Stairway to Heaven

Long before Wayne’s World, it was unwrit­ten rule that no one should ever cov­er “Stair­way to Heav­en” by Led Zep­plin. Every­one’s heard it too many times and no one can do it jus­tice, any­way, so what’s the point?

Well, if you are going to break that rule and you’re going to do it front of the three remain­ing band mem­bers, the Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States, the First Lady, and all rest of the audi­ence at the Kennedy Cen­ter —who hap­pens to be hon­or­ing Led Zep­plin late last year— then you’d best per­form just like Ann and Nan­cy Wil­son (of Heart), Jason Bon­ham (son of the late Led Zep­plin drum­mer, John), and the rest of this amaz­ing band.

Wow. Check out Yo-Yo Ma groov­ing out to the gui­tar, the mem­bers of Led Zep­plin com­plete­ly entranced, and Robert Palmer shed­ding a tear after the end!

Okay, now let’s all go back to nev­er cov­er­ing this song. We’ll revis­it it again in anoth­er 1/3 century.