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Rock-a-Rama

Rock-a-Rama

This month's Rock-a-ramas were written by Richard Riegel, Billy Altman, Richard C. Walls, and Michael Davis.

June 1, 1979
Richard Riegel

RECORDS

THE WONDER BAND—Stairway To Love (Atco):: Right, kids, we've already had disco reinterpretations of classic English rock tunes from the songbooks of everybody from the Stones to The Animals to the Spencer Davis Group, so the definitive disco-revision of Led Zeppelin's catalog has been long since overdue. Fellow Atlantic Recording Corp. employees, the Wonder Band, tackle the Zep's two biggest hits, "Stairway To Heaven" and "Whole Lotta Love," with commendable disco flair. These covers should prove palatable even to the most fervent Zep loyalist, as the time's certainly ripe for even 10-year-old metalosaurs to move on into the new age of music. Hey Jim(my)/Bob,„ disco's ARRIVED; the Stones do know, 'n the li'l girls understand! R.R.

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