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November 16, 2009

Was 'Stairway to Heaven' a Hit Because It was the Perfect Smoke Break Length for DJs?

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“The song became successful by accident,” Charles R. Cross told the New York Post. ”[I] had 100 DJs swear to me that they only played the song because they needed a long break to go and smoke a cigarette. If it had been a minute shorter, you couldn’t have smoked a full cigarette. If it had been a minute longer, it would have been too long.”



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