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11 Facts About Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”

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(via Mental Floss) In the pantheon of classic rock songs, there’s arguably no tune more classic than “Stairway to Heaven.”

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(via Mental Floss) One Tuesday night in September 1964, The Who—then performing as “The High Numbers”—arrived at London’s Railway Hotel

In the early 1970s, two members of New York rock band Wicked Lester, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, struck out

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(via Mental Floss) Ever since Graceland opened its distinctive, music-inspired gates to the public in June 1982, the Memphis mansion

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(via Atlas Obscura) Tharun Sekar’s creations include the yazh, a harp-like instrument played in India 2,000 years ago.

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(via Mental Floss) Like “boy bands,” “girl groups” is one of those musical genres that’s difficult to define, but has

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(via Smithsonian) How the world’s handiest instrument took over American music

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(via Mental Floss) Since Wheaties first enticed radio listeners to try its cereal through song in 1927, jingles have been

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(via Smithsonian) Of all the melodic musical instruments in the world, perhaps none is more connected to the land it

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(via Mental Floss) Whether it’s the pop-rock genius of the early Fab Four, the grooviness of The Jackson 5, the

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(via Mental Floss) In 1964, Beatlemania officially reached America. On February 7, 1964, the Fab Four—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo

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(via Smithsonian) A new project seeks to elevate artists like Harry T. Burleigh and Florence Price, whose work has been