58 - Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven 1971

Many believe "Stairway to Heaven" is the greatest rock and roll song of all time, where gripping lyrics from Plant provide an 8 minute climb to an eclipse of yet another classic guitar-solo provided by Page. It is the most requested and most played song on FM radio stations in the United States, despite never being released as a single there.
The song's instrumentals were written by Page "over a long period. The first attempts at lyrics, written by Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant next to an evening log fire at Headley Grange, were partly spontaneously improvised and Page claimed, "a huge percentage of the lyrics were written there and then". Jimmy Page was strumming the chords and Robert Plant had a pencil and paper. Plant later said that suddenly, "my hand was writing out the words, 'There's a lady who's sure, all that glitters is gold, and she's buying a stairway to Heaven'.