Stairway to Paradise

"Stairway to Paradise" is a song composed by George Gershwin in 1922 for the Broadway musical George White's Scandals.[1] It was more famously performed in the 1951 American musical An American in Paris by Georges Guétary. In An American in Paris, it was entitled "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise". The song is heard in the 2004 Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator, being sung by Rufus Wainwright, in a scene at the Coconut Grove night club set in 1927.

References

  1. "(I'll build a) Stairway to Paradise". Great American Songbook. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
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