Stairway (band)

Stairway were an English new-age music band, who have released a total of five albums and cassette tapes between 1986 and 1995.

[1] After The Yardbirds' mid-1980s reunion project (known as "Box of Frogs"), drummer Jim McCarty reunited with bassist Louis Cennamo (a colleague from McCarty's days with his post-Yardbirds bands, Renaissance and Illusion), to form "Stairway", a duo which would record largely instrumental and "atmospheric" music.

[3] Stairway were signed with Colin Wilcox of New World Cassettes, a UK-based independent record label that specialized in "healing music".

[5] Additional musicians on these releases included keyboardist Clifford White, and another colleague from Renaissance and Illusion, vocalist Jane Relf.

McCarty has more recently been active with a re-formed version of The Yardbirds,[12] and Cennamo has returned to playing bass and doing sessions, in addition to having begun a writing career.