On the off chance you ever wondered what producer-slash-fraud-perpetrator Frank Farian did in between Boney M and Milli Vanilli: he oversaw this too-faithful-to-be-this-absurd treatment of one of rock's most enduring songs. L&Gs, I present Far Corporation's "Stairway to Heaven." It somehow nudged into the Hot 100 in 1985, even though Singer No. 1, he of the period hair, mimics Robert Plant's inflections syllable for slavish syllable, and Singer No. 2, who doesn't get his moment until the pre-coda shrieks, looks like either Toto's "Hold the Line" vocalist or the "da Bears" guy from SNL years ago.WTFF. The '80s were a hell of a drug.
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