Lots of people love Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.” After all, it isn’t a beloved staple of classic rock radio for nothing. But on Jan. 23, 1991, KLSK-FM in Albuquerque, N.M., took that love to absurd new heights.
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The Albuquerque, New Mexico, radio station KLSK FM plays the Led Zeppelin song “Stairway To Heaven” over and over for 24 hours to inaugurate a format change to classic rock. It plays more than 200 times, eliciting hundreds of angry calls and letters.
Police show up with guns drawn after a listener reports that the DJ had apparently suffered a heart attack, later because of suspicion that – this being eight days into the Gulf War – the radio station had been taken hostage by terrorists dispatched by Zeppelin freak Saddam Hussein. Weirdest of all, lots of listeners don’t move the dial: “Turns out a lot of people listened to see when we would finally stop playing it.”
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