The single most infamous song of the backward masking craze of the 1980s was
surely Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.” A message from the devil or a trick of
the imagination? I’ll say the latter. But when we were kids, playing “Stairway to
Heaven” backward on the record player was still a memorable way to spend an
afternoon. For further discussion see What’s So Confusing About Grace? chapter 8,