For decades, filmmakers begged Led Zeppelin to let them use the band’s best-known song on screen.
And now, 55 years after Stairway To Heaven was released, members of the group have relented – allowing it to be used in a Netflix adaptation of The Chronicles Of Narnia.
Barbie director Greta Gerwig showed Jimmy Page and Robert Plant an early cut of The Magician’s Nephew, the sixth book in CS Lewis’s fantasy series, in a bid to persuade them.
They were so moved by what they saw, she said, that they allowed her to use the song after half a century of refusals.
The decision
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