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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Thu Jun 23, 2016, 01:40 PM Jun 2016

Jury sides with Led Zeppelin in trial over song ‘Stairway to Heaven’

Jury sides with Led Zeppelin in trial over song ‘Stairway to Heaven’

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/jury-sides-with-led-zeppelin-in-trial-over-song-stairway-to-heaven/

A jury sided with Led Zeppelin on Thursday in a federal copyright infringement trial in Los Angeles where the band stood accused of stealing the opening chords of the 1971 classic “Stairway to Heaven” from an American group.

The jury found Led Zeppelin’s singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page had access to the 1967 song “Taurus” by the U.S. band Spirit, but that the riff they were accused of taking from “Taurus” was not intrinsically similar to the opening chords of “Stairway.”
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Jury sides with Led Zeppelin in trial over song ‘Stairway to Heaven’ (Original Post) Miles Archer Jun 2016 OP
it didn't sound anywhere close enough to me OriginalGeek Jun 2016 #1

OriginalGeek

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1. it didn't sound anywhere close enough to me
Thu Jun 23, 2016, 02:10 PM
Jun 2016

Not like that classical piece from the 1600s

but that was at most 10 seconds out of the entire piece.

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