Flashback: Robert Plant Reluctantly Sings 'Stairway' at 1988 Zeppelin Reunion

The night before Led Zeppelin were scheduled to play a brief reunion set at Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary show at Madison Square Garden in 1988, Robert Plant called up Jimmy Page with some news: He wasn’t going to sing “Stairway to Heaven.” “Well, that was awful,” Page said years later. “I said, ‘What…