If you think that the world’s greatest song,
Is by Zeppelin, well maybe you’re wrong,
A judge will decide,
If Plant and Page lied,
When they said it’s their work all along.
John Moynes
Pic: Vinyl Tempest
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Everything. As It Happens.
Led Zeppelin shamelessly ripped off a lot of stuff, this one is one of the least similar sound-a-likes they did. Mind you at the time, all blues acts were at this sort of thing, they just committed the sin of becoming succesful.
Can’t help but get a whiff of ambulance chasing off this though as clearly there was some sort of statute of limitations fast one pulled to try and get a pay day out of it.
The opening chords are very similar, but after that there’s a lot built on it.
Here’s the song.
http://youtu.be/gFHLO_2_THg
There’s a lawyer who knows..
That there’s plenty of gold
If Zep stole part of Stairway to Heaven
If the case is so strong..
that they copied a song
Then the royalties will follow soon after…
And it makes me wonder…
Stairway….denied
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1KqbDdmuE
It’s hands down ripped off.
There’s always been pilfering, every successful artist is guilty of it. These court cases have surfaced more and more as 60’s musicians get older and medical bills start to rise (though I don’t know if that’s the specific case here). I say let them have it. Its close enough to prove wholesale lifting and Page can afford it.