For the best part of six years, Led Zeppelin has been battling copyright claims related to the opening riff of ‘Stairway to Heaven’.
Led Zeppelin are currently involved in a serious legal battle, and during the court trial Jimmy Page dropped something of a bombshell.
Led Zeppelin is under some scrutiny due to a new lawsuit which claims that they copied Spirit’s instrumental track ‘Taurus’ to make their iconic track ‘Stairway to Heaven’.
This is a pretty big let-down. You’re not a true fan of Led Zeppelin if you did not, at some point, secretly admit to yourself that the riff from Stairway To Heaven sounds a heck of a lot like ‘Taurus’ from the band Spirit. Come on, you know the band that used to play gigs with […]