Led Zeppelin fans admit they used to 'avoid' hit song for one terrifying reason

Led Zeppelin fans are recalling 1 of the reasons they utilized to 'avoid' 1 of their deed songs, with legendary stone opus Stairway to Heaven wrongly linked to Satanism

Fans of seasoned stone radical Led Zeppelin person admitted they avoided the set successful their younker owed to a terrifying rumour.

The now-rubbished fable of Satanic symbolism successful 1 of the group's champion songs seems to person near an interaction connected those who grew up with the band's music. Music-lovers took to a Reddit thread and shared their stories of avoiding Stairway to Heaven, the iconic opus from Led Zeppelin's 4th album, Led Zeppelin IV.

Now considered 1 of the top songs of each time, the eight-minute masterpiece has been cemented successful stone history. But a much antagonistic cognition towards the opus was astir astatine the clip of its release.

Televangelist Paul Crouch Jr is believed to person made the assertion implicit Led Zeppelin's lyrics and said playing the grounds backwards would uncover its sinister links to the Devil. He claimed if you started astatine the enactment "If there's a bustle successful your hedgerow" and worked backwards, you would person lyrics which praised Satan.

Led Zeppelin subordinate Robert Plant rubbished the claim, saying: "Who connected Earth would person ever thought of doing that? You've got to person a batch of clip connected your hands to adjacent see that radical would bash that."

One idiosyncratic asked the r/exmormon group: "Were you ever told to debar the opus Stairway to Heaven? I was." Other users shared they excessively were told to support good distant from the Robert Plant and Jimmy Page-written song. One idiosyncratic confirmed they were astir for the "Satanic panic" contention levelled astatine the song, wherever the nationalist alleged if you played the way backwards, devilish worship could beryllium heard.

One idiosyncratic wrote: "Oh yes! I was successful precocious schoolhouse for the Satanic Panic! I had a seminary teacher (in Logan UT) who played america audio of a feline derailing each the masked messages from Zep, Beatles, etc. KISS and AC/DC were acronyms for these Satanic bands’ existent intent. After school, I went location and listened to my Black Sabbath and Zeppelin records."

Another wrote: "I’m truthful gladsome I wasn’t live for the panic. I was capable to bask D&D happily. Unfortunately we had the witch panic of Harry Potter though." A 3rd added: "One of my Young Men's leaders brought successful a grounds subordinate and Led Zep medium to amusement america however the opus was Satanic.

"We played it slow, played it fast, played it backwards, each portion helium was saying 'See? Did you perceive that? Right determination it sounded similar helium said stairway to hell! This is decidedly Satanic!' I deliberation it had the other effect connected astir of us. Now 40 years aboriginal I inactive emotion Led Zeppelin!"

Some adjacent recalled fireside events wherever the scary quality of the band's euphony was explained to younger audiences. One wrote: "Yep. Went to a fireside astatine BYU successful the aboriginal 80s and the feline was connected occurrence astir the evils of stone euphony and helium did play Stairway to Heaven backwards. I got each brainsick and threw retired my euphony that helium talked about. Even my TBM friends were similar what the hell?"

Others questioned the logic of the rubbished rumour, with 1 writing: "What I’ve ever wondered is wherefore is it 'Satanic' erstwhile it sounds wacky and distorted to the constituent of being unintelligible? If that’s however Satan sounds, nary 1 has thing to fearfulness from him…because he’s excessively unintelligible to communicate."

Not everyone was deprived of Led Zeppelin's euphony astatine the time, though. One idiosyncratic shared: "My dada lived the beingness successful the 60s and shared his medium postulation with us. Zeppelin was 1 of the greats." Another added: "The opus was played astatine each ward and involvement creation I went to arsenic a teen successful Upstate NY."