1. This song on the album "Led Zeppelin IV," wasn't released as a single, but it eventually became the most requested-for-radio-play classic rock song of all time. What was it?
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Answer:
Stairway to Heaven
"Stairway to Heaven" is arguably the most popular rock song of all time. It has been played on radio stations at least three million times. Its sheet music is the highest-selling piece of sheet music in the history of rock music, selling over one million copies. Magazines such as "Classic Rock," "VH1," and "Rolling Stone," have listed it as one of the greatest rock songs of all-time.
Led Zeppelin refused to release "Stairway to Heaven" as a single, despite pressure from Atlantic Records, because they wanted to make people buy the whole album. As a result, the song wasn't an instant hit. Bassist John Paul Jones said in an interview with BBC radio that the first time they played it live, the audience was "Bored to tears." Although the song was released in 1971, music journalist Stephen Davis said that the song didn't become a huge hit until 1973.