The Supreme Court declined to hear whether Jimmy Page plagiarized an instrumental by 1960s band Spirit to create the riff for the classic 1971 rock ballad. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to ...
Each of these classic rock bands either came to hate their biggest hit or hated it from the very beginning. Hopefully the ...
Robert Plant delivered a rare performance of the classic Led Zeppelin song “Stairway to Heaven” during a charity benefit in Oxfordshire, England on Saturday night. “Bet I enjoyed that more than him,” ...
Guitarist Jimmy Page testified Thursday he couldn’t identify the musical elements of the sheet music for the Spirit song “Taurus” that he is accused of lifting for the intro to Led Zeppelin’s ...
Last week the en banc 9th Circuit heard argument in the case of Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin, involving the claim that the famous opening guitar riff in Led Zeppelin's classic "Stairway to Heaven" — No.
From the start of Led Zeppelin’s run, the band had certain songs that were the centerpiece of its marathon performances. In the early days, that song was “Dazed and Confused,” which featured Jimmy ...
Mastodon recorded a cover of Led Zeppelin's classic "Stairway to Heaven" as a tribute to their late manager. The song, retitled "Stairway to Nick John," was released as a single on Record Store Day ...
Led Zeppelin — and specifically guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant — is defending itself against charges that it pinched the opening from its 1971 epic "Stairway to Heaven" from "Taurus" by ...
Whether parodied for a 7-11 song or joked about on Wayne’s World, the song has endured since it was released in 1971. The opening Jimmy Page guitar line is as memorable as any, and the thrill vocalist ...
The civil trial against Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page begins Tuesday as the pair face accusations that the opening chords from the band’s iconic “Stairway to Heaven” were ...
LOS ANGELES >> In days of Led Zeppelin’s youth, the band didn’t have many original works and relied heavily on cover songs, including a medley that borrowed a riff from the California band Spirit.