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Stairways to Heaven
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Not So Serious Versions
There are quite a few take-offs floating around. The below are some of the best.
Foo Fighters
Dave Grohl’s having a bit of fun with this.
If you want more of a laugh, go to the YouTube page and read the comments from the folks that thought it wasn’t very funny.
DAAS and Barry Crocker
Ahhh, the Doug Anthony AllStars. The became famous in Australia from The Big Gig.
They did their version of Stairway to Heaven for the Money or the Gun Stairways to Heaven segment, featuring Barry Crocker, another Australian icon.
More silly versions from The Money or the Gun
According to the Money or the Gun article, there were over twenty versions of the song done in different styles including reggae, opera, a spoken poem and the famous Rolf Harris version (which annoyed the hell out of me). So here are some of the more interesting versions…
1. The musical opera…
2. The Beatnix (Beatles cover band) in an early Beatles style…
3. The Australian Doors Show in a Doors style…
4. Leonard Teale reading as a classical poem…
5. Friends Of The Castenet Club as a sea shanty…
6. The Symphony Chorus of the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, as an a capella chorus…
Oh and I can’t miss the ad for the record…
“…builds track by track into a very annoying album”.
More?
If you want to hear 101 different versions of the song, go to WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: Stairways to Heaven, Stairways to Hell. The Nick Barker and the Reptiles version has some brilliant blues harp in it.
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