What's this?? Led Zeppelin loses in court over "Stairway to Heaven"!

Led Zeppelin has stolen the bulk of their most popular songs from other artists… specifically blues singers from the '20s/'30s.

Here's Spirit playing "Taurus" - gotta admit it does seem like they influenced Led Zeppelin in the '60s.



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Hmmm....



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I listened and I don't think so.
Those examples are extremely unconvincing to me.


It's kind of like saying an F-16 fighter jet plagiarized the Wright brothers.

What a bunch of caca!

Every band is influenced by other bands and uses bits and pieces from them in there music. Literally every song has something from another song that came before.

yah..heard it before- it sounds backwards and that song would NEVER EVER be a hit

there are only 8 notes you know?

Four cords, five strings, thousands of songs, simularities are a certainty. I bet you could do this to any rock band.

led zep gave up all the songs and wrote down on their albums the rightful honours to all of the songs they played for the first entire four albums...each old blues master is noted as the writer for every song on all 4 of their first albums

look at the albums - they give full rights and recognition for every song as to who wrote them

Now- the 5th album was entirely theirs and all song were written by them

remastered coming out on oct 27th?? something like that

opps first 3 albums....what a tard I iz

itz a really bad FU when you are a zep fan like me

Zeppelin definitely copped other peoples music. They just did it a lot better than the people they got it from.

As did the Beatles. And every rock act that got hugely famous.

It is shitty for them to not give credit to the artists though. But listening through that, I am just struck by how not good the originals are and how Zeppelin made the songs amazing.

Jimmy Page was a big time satanist. Probably had a lot to do with it. I like the songs, but you can tell something otherworldly is pushing them. Kind of scary.

Not even close, learn what you are talking about. They didn't lose anything, in fact the spirit's lawyer just got shredded by a PA judge yesterday in another so-called plagiarism suit. If anything, EVERY ROCK BAND RIPPED OFF ZEPPELIN MORE THAN ANY OTHER BAND AND STILL DO TO THIS DAY. This song sounds NOTHING LIKE STAIRWAY.

Really? Why are they now suing them after 43 years?!? Because Randy California knew he had no case, and as soon as he died recently, his greedy family are just trying to get some of that MAJOR Stairway money.

Stairway to Heaven is at once the best folk song AND best rock song all in one.

Taurus is a hokey piece of shit no one listens to. And it couldn't sound less like STH if it tried...Stairway has the greatest guitar solo ever laid down (Jimmy Page is a genius), how about Spirit...UNLISTENABLE GARBAGE.

Sounds about right.

"I listened and I don't think so. Those examples are extremely unconvincing to me."

Agreed. Not even close to plagiarism, ridiculous. More like a minor lyrical homage or "nod" to the their blues influences. Zeppelin has 80 studio songs. 99% of them sound like nothing else ever done. Ten Years Gone, Rain Song, Kashmir, Over The Hills, No Quarter, Song Remains The Same, Fool In The Rain, Sick Again, The Rover, Houses of The Holy, Wanton Song, Custard Pie, Since I've been loving you, Tangerine, Celebration Day, In My Time Of Dying, In The Light, Bron-Yr-Aur...where did they "rip-off" these songs from?? NOWHERE, THEY WROTE THEM. They were the most original band ever and remain so without question. Why would the best live improv band ever, Zeppelin, need to rip off anything, when they could improv 30 minute versions of songs live full of incredible riffs, and totally change them every night?! In fact, they gave more awareness to these old blues artists than they would have ever gotten. Win-Win for Led Zeppelin.

That's why Pink Floyd is the better band. THey never nicked songs. True originals.

horseshit.

pretty sure AC/DC wrote their own songs

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Floyd were boring. Not even close to Zeppelin. Ask Gilmour, a huge Page fan.

AC/DC? Decent basic rock band, but it's the same song over and over for 35 years. But next to Zeppelin?!? Don't make me laugh.

No one had the diversity and range as Zeppelin. Not the Beatles, not the Stones, or anyone else for that matter. LZ minced all competition to little grains of sand the second Led Zeppelin 1 was released everything changed because of their untouchable musicianship and Jimmy Page's unrivaled production skills and mastery of light and shade. Just ask legendary producer Rick Rubin. Not to mention JOHN BONHAM. 20 seconds into their first song on their first album in 1968, "Good Times Bad Times", his single bass pedal triplets left all other drummers wimpering and running back to their practice rooms to try to do that lick, all failing, and they needed 2 bass drums and are still not as fluid, tasty, and powerful to this day. All studio musicians to this day know Zep were the top tier.

By that logic, "Gates of Babylon" is a complete ripoff of "Taurus" as well because they use a similar chord progression in the intro.

The only reason ZZ Top got out of their suit with John Lee Hooker was that the copyright to Hooker's Boogie Chillun had expired.

After listening to that Spirit tune, Page and Plant better order some new checkbooks from the bank.

And everyone uses the same chords and progressions...


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I'm not talking about this song, asshat.


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You can give the Red Hot Chili Peppers the AC/DC Award for every song they ever recorded sounding the same.

Why? It sounds nothing like Stairway. In fact, the whole song couldn't sound LESS like Stairway.

What's next, trying to patent an "A" chord? Or the 12-bar blues? It's just frustrated musician's with little talent (spirit) trying to capitalize on real talent like Led Zeppelin...40 YEARS AFTER THE FACT. Why now? Because the guy died, and the family knows nothing about music and is just trying to get a pay day of someone else's talent. The talent being Led Zeppelin.

Loser, no one cares what song you're talking about. You're clueless and desperately need a hearing test. LISTEN TO THE WHOLE SONG. Bonzo's drums of WTLB are untouchable.

This is true. Howard Stern had a guest on once who did a comprehensive study of the issue. They played comparisons of old music with Zeppelin songs. It's clear they ripped many off. The same goes for Bob Dylan.

In all fairness Zep did cover some old blues songs in a very great way but I wouldn't say it was the bulk of their material.

12 bar blues is public domain. That's the difference. Here's what you don't seem to understand about plagiarism. I don't have to plagiarize an entire book, just one line from a book without credit and I'm a plagiarist and I can be sued.

It's not a matter of playing something something somebody else already played. it's claiming that you wrote it when you didn't and attempting to reap financial gain, in this case by claiming publishing rights.

Now you can't fucking tell me you do not recognize the entire opening of Stairway to Heaven in that song. The entire fucking thing is there. People are getting busted every day for sampling 4 or 5 consecutive notes in a rap song. This is far more than that.