Posted on 10/05/2020 11:03:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
British rock band Led Zeppelin on Monday effectively won a long-running legal battle over claims it stole the opening guitar riff from its signature 1971 song “Stairway to Heaven.”
The band, one of the best-selling rock acts of all time, was handed victory after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the case, meaning that a March 2020 decision by a U.S. appeals court in Led Zeppelin’s favor will stand.
Lead singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page had been accused in the six-year-long case of lifting the riff — one of the best-known openings in rock music — from a song called “Taurus”, written by the late Randy Wolfe of the U.S. band Spirit.
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The Eagles stole Hotel California from Jethro Tull.
Kashmir-Celebration Day. Great yut ube!
ALL of rock is a ripoff of everything that came before it.
Even Jazz and the Blues is a ripoff of things that came before it.
Music has only a few notes and chords. Everything is a ripoff of what came before when it comes to music.
Note how nobody plays (or even knows) that Spirit song called "Taurus."
Though give Spirit credit where credit is due, "Spirit In The Sky" is a masterpiece that no other band has done better.
They lay in dirty water dyin’
That sounds nothing like Stairway to Heaven. It took six years to resolve that?
Greedy lawyers will be the ruination of society.
Musicians influence musicians and they quite often borrow something they like and make it their own. It's not like they are covering a song and make money, wait, they do that to (probably with an agreement). I think as a free society people influence others and profit from that in millions of ways in thousands if industries, we can't always sue, I hate giving lawyers money for this stuff.
Hand to face... it’s a song named after a type of material used in sweater making. Definitely not in anyway, shape or form linked to a geographic location. Nope...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_(Led_Zeppelin_song)
Guitarist Jimmy Page explained that the song developed from a spontaneous jam session, while the band were trying (and failing) to finish the track “Four Sticks”, at the Headley Grange mansion they had rented in Hampshire, England to record the track.[6][7] John Bonham began by playing the drum introduction from the Little Richard song “Keep A-Knockin’” to which Page added a Chuck Berry-style guitar riff.[8][9] The tapes were rolling and fifteen minutes later the basis of the song was completed.[10]
And everybody ripped off C, F & G chord patterns from me! I’m debating whether or not to change guitar strings this year and deduct it from next years tax return. ;o)~
I agree, the riff resolves differently which gives it a different feel.
Incidentally, Clapton does a pretty close copy of the Stairway riff in his song Let It Grow. Happens around the 1 minute mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpDlmop0uYU
Clapton later said he copied it subconsciously.
Interesting. I’ve heard that song before and never made the connection.
Happens all the time in, nothing to litigate, just move on.
So many frivolous lawsuits, so little time.
Hey lady, you got the love I need Maybe more than enough Oh darling, darling, darling; walk a while with me Oh, you’ve got so much, so much, so much.
One of my favorite Led songs too. Love Ramble On.
Heylady
Maybe Led Zepp learned plagiarism from Joe Biden?
I’ve listened to it. They stole it.
We may as well hand over the Republic to communists.
This was always sketchy. Once you start playing around with blues progressions you’re going to run into a lot of sameness. That’s the nature of the structure, there’s only so many progressions possible. And of course bands are always learning and borrowing and hopefully moving it forward. Especially in the 60s and early 70s. Should the Kinks sue everybody that worked with distortion? Many of them admit where they got the idea.
Look up “You Need Loving” by the Small Faces. Prepare to be amazed...Plant lifted the tune and delivery from Steve Marriott (Screaming Steve). A direct lift...incredible
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