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From: g4r@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Andy Burnett)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Re: Backmasking
Message-ID: <6488@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 90 01:06:29 GMT
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In article <6497@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ccm020@deneb.ucdavis.edu () writes:
>1.  Does anyone know if the band PURPOSELY put the backwards lyrics on
>there, or did someone just play it backwards and pick out a few
>semi-clear words?
>

   According to an interview I heard with Plant and Page, they wrote the 
lyrics for Stairway in about 45 minutes one evening in front of a crackling
fire.  No backmasking or hidden messages intended.

>3.  Can anyone tell me what the EXACT backwards lyrics are supposed to be?
>All I could pick out was "My sweet Satan..."
>

  As with most 'satanic backmasking messages' one hears what one want's to 
hear.  I have heard the song played backward's and I could discern no
intelligible message, what-so-ever.  Oh, well.

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g4r@mentor.cc.purdue.edu        |  they stay insane.                 |
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