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Was in Waynes World a long time ago too.

 

http://www.slate.fr/sites/default/files/photos/sadsad.jpg

If I remember correctly, the story goes that they wanted to use the song in the movie, but couldn't arrange the rights to do so.

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Posted (edited)

Just interesting a music shop I used to go to had a BIG a$$ sign as you walked in the door 'NO Stairway To Heaven to be played here EVER' ..... I assume every budding rock guitarist played it when 'trying' out a guitar at the time.

 

apologies to the GIFpoe poe

 

http://img.pandawhale.com/94144-no-stairway-to-heaven-denied-g-okxD.gif

 

edit:found better gif

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If I remember correctly, the story goes that they wanted to use the song in the movie, but couldn't arrange the rights to do so.

you do...http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/15298088672

 

 

While in the music store, Wayne (Myers) tries out a guitar by starting to play “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin, and is stopped by a salesman (often falsely credited as Dana Strum from the band Slaughter), who points to a sign on the wall of the sales floor, which says “No Stairway To Heaven”. The joke references the fact that in a number of guitar stores in the UK, the song is banned from being played due to the fact that so many people tried to play the guitar portions of the song after its release, employees became sick of hearing it.

Something that has always bothered me in the guitar store scene: Wayne doesn’t actually play the first four notes from “Stairway To Heaven.” Turns out, for a reason:

Wayne’s performance existed in original 35mm theatrical prints, but, due to the band’s licensing restrictions, the notes performed were changed for home video and television broadcasts and bear very little resemblance to the original, and the point of the joke is lost.

See, the first time I saw Wayne’s World, I was in the 4th grade, laid up with chicken pox, watching it on VHS.

I just scoured the internet to see if somebody’s YouTubed the original print, to no success. (Although, somebody did try dubbing them in.)

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