No Stairway! The Real Best of Led Zeppelin
Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, September 2012
Forget 'Stairway to Heaven'. In fact, forget 'Heartbreaker' and 'Rock and Roll' and (yikes!) even 'Dazed and Confused' and 'When the Levee Breaks'. (Definitely forget the terrible 'Trampled Under Foot', which gave me the title of my new oral history of Led Zeppelin.) THESE – ranked according to the sheer musical pleasure they afford yours truly – are the 20 top tracks by the mightiest rock 'n' roll band of all time–BH
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