Your Favourite Stairway

Our friends over at Led Zep fansite Tight But Loose are conducting a poll to find the greatest ever live version of 'Stariway To Heaven' as part of a 40th anniversary celebration of the live debut of the song on 5 March 1971 at the Ulster Hall in Belfast.

Basically they're looking to name the definitive live rendition of the song. In fact they want the top 40 live renditions.

Here's some info on the poll:

"The criteria is as follows: Any live version by Led Zeppelin is eligible plus post Zep versions ie Arms or Outrider tour, Live Aid, Page & Plant Japan TV, O2 reunion.

"From these top fives, we will award five points to the number one choice, four for a second, three for a third, etc – and then collate the results into a defintive Stairway To Heaven all time Top 40 greatest live version listing.

"This is a fantastic opportunity for you to re-discover this much maligned song. And believe us , you can expect to be in awe of it all over again as you pull out the old LPs, bootlegs etc and marvel at the song’s depth and beauty.

"To give you a few ideas –there’s the BBC In Concert 1971 version, the brilliant Going To California bootleg delivery, The familiar official live version on The Song Remains The Same soundtrack, the How The West Was Won performance from Long Beach ‘72,  the stateliness of the 1975 Earls Court versions as the song elevated to the finale of the main Zep set, the meandering maze of Seattle ‘77, the often haunting versions performed Over Europe ‘80 including the marathon last ever Zep performance in Berlin.

"Post Zep, there’s Jimmy’s emotional instrumental version performed on the ARMS tour, the spirited Live Aid performance, that 1994 P & P one off and the night they ‘’Did it’’ again for Ahmet, for one night only at the 02 on December 10th 2007."

You can send your submissions HERE