Tenacious D’s Jack Black and Kyle Gass have revealed that ‘One’ by Metallica and Led Zeppelin‘s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ had a “large” influence on their hit song ‘Tribute’.‘Tribute’, which was first released in 2001, famously recounts a performance of “the greatest song in the world”.
However, in a recent interview with Zane Lowe, the duo were at odds as to which song this specifically referred.Gass stated that Metallica’s ‘One’ was the primary inspiration for ‘Tribute’.
However, Black was initially less convinced.“When we were talking about what’s the greatest song in the world, at the time it was Metallica – ‘One’, some would say.