Listeners to Britain's Planet Rock digital radio station have voted Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" the best rock song of all time.

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More than 71 percent of the Web voters chose the 1971 classic, the BBC reported Friday.

"It's probably the only song fans agree is a classic," DJ Mark Reeves told the BBC. "After all these years, there's nothing to touch it."

The top five were rounded out by Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird," Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" and Black Sabbath's "Paranoid."

Surprisingly, the oft-heard "Heaven" on both sides of the pond was never released as a single. It has been covered by a host of artists in styles ranging from the London Symphony Orchestra to country artist Dolly Parton.