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Certamente que, mais de trinta anos depois, já tudo foi escrito sobre os Led Zeppelin. Tempo agora para a estupidez, a ver se se faz mais uns trocos.

«Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven 'owes its success to cigarettes'

Band biographer claims that DJs only played the now classic song because it was the 'perfect length' for a cigarette break

Was the secret to Stairway to Heaven's success the fact that it gave DJs the chance to nip out for a cigarette? That's the theory of Led Zeppelin biographer Charles R Cross, who claims that 100 radio presenters "literally ... swore" that they aired the now classic tune because it was the "perfect length" for a cigarette break.
"The song became successful by accident," Cross told the New York Post. "[I] had 100 DJs swear to me that they only played the song because they needed a long break to go and smoke a cigarette. If it had been a minute shorter, you couldn't have smoked a full cigarette. If it had been a minute longer, it would have been too long." (...)»