Led Zeppelin Finally Licensed “Stairway To Heaven” For A Movie

It's not easy to license a Led Zeppelin song, and it's especially not easy to license "Stairway To Heaven," the Led Zeppelin IV epic that stands as a monument to awesome classic rock excess. There are at least a couple of examples of big movies that really, really wanted to use "Stairway" for soundtrack purposes but couldn't because Zeppelin wouldn't allow it. Finally, however, Zeppelin have finally gotten an offer that they couldn't refuse, or at least one that they didn't refuse. A remixed version of "Stairway To Heaven" soundtracks the trailer for Narnia: The Magician's Nephew, director Greta Gerwig's Netflix-funded follow-up to her 2023 blockbuster Barbie.We don't yet know whether "Stairway To Heaven" appears in the actual Narnia movie, but even getting it into the trailer is a coup. There's a famous scene in Wayne's World where Mike Myers' Wayne Campbell, encountering his dream guitar in a music store, plays the first four notes of "Stairway" before a clerk stops him and points to a sign that says "NO STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN." As Consequence Of Sound points out, you only heard that little snippet if you saw Wayne's World in the theater in 1992. By the time the film hit home video, ...