Led Zeppelin bandmates to take stand in ‘Stairway to Heaven’ trial
Did the rip off the famous riff or originate it?
Click here for reuse options!The band’s guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant are named as defendants in the lawsuit brought by the trustee of guitarist Randy Wolfe from the band Spirit. Attorneys for the trustee contend that 1971’s “Stairway to Heaven” copies music from the Spirit song “Taurus,” which Wolfe wrote in either 1966 or 1967. Wolfe died in 1997, drowning while saving his son in Hawaii.
Page, Plant and their bandmate John Paul Jones are all expected to testify at the trial, though Jones has been dismissed as a defendant in the case.
Led Zeppelin and Spirit performed at some concerts and festivals around the same time, but not on the same stage.
US District Judge R. Gary Klausner ruled in April that evidence presented in hearings made a credible case that Led Zeppelin may have heard “Taurus” performed before their song was created.
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amersham46 June 14th, 2016 at 18:40
45 years later , must have been delayed with paperwork
crc3 June 14th, 2016 at 23:38
Total jealousy that LZ has made all of that money for Stairway. Spirit? Who are they again?
DieselJohnson June 15th, 2016 at 03:11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkd5JWYM9wM
robert June 15th, 2016 at 03:25
Robert plant has been quoted saying he hates to sing this song . If they lose in trial ? He would be the least disappointed