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Led Zeppelin stole it from the Band Spirit?
“Stairway To Heaven” is one of the most famous Songs of rock history, and was written in 1970 by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. It was thought for a long time. Until now, the ‘ 70s Band Spirit has reported.
The famous guitar run, ushering in the eight-minute-long piece was not an original idea of the two songwriter of Led Zeppelin. But Randy Wolfe alias Randy California, the singer and guitarist of the Band Spirit. I composed the piece “Taurus” in 1967. So see, his heirs and filed by a Trustee lawsuit for alleged plagiarism.
Have played lead guitar on Robert Plant and the lead singer of the Band, Jimmy Page stole it, actually? This must now be clarified by a Federal court in Los Angeles. Page and Plant appeared on Tuesday (14.06.2016) in person before the court, where at first a Jury is selected before opening statements, the process begins.
The two deny vehemently a theft. You didn’t know the Song at all. However, Led Zeppelin and Spirit played at the time, often on the same Festivals. Led Zeppelin should have occurred in 1968, even in Denver as the opening act of the Spirit. So also, the Chairman, judge R. Gary Klausner’s hard to imagine that Plant and Page had heard this Song ever. Now legally, the question is whether it bolder song is theft, Inspiration or whether the two just happen to be the Same thought.
Late justice, or making money?
Wolfe himself, who died in 1997 in a swimming accident, has been detected during the lifetime of the Similarities, however, never taken to court. In an Interview shortly before his death, he said: “If you listen to both Songs, can each of the cases, his own judgment. They are the same.” Now his heirs are entered on the Plan. Two years ago, they filed the lawsuit, the promises in case of success, a multi-million dollar windfall. Around 500 million dollars is said to have introduced “Stairway To Heaven”. Because it’s worth it to be in retrospect to the royalties involved. A rogue who thinks Evil: to them it was a matter of the recognition of a wolf as the author of one of the most famous rock songs in the world, to explain to the heirs.
How similar the two songs really are?
The instrumental song “Taurus” by Spirit, you hear six bars long and the guitar riff in question. Only the sounds are missing at the top – Led Zeppelin plays parallel to the descending bass line is an ascending melody.
Now it is in the history of pop music, even classical music is not uncommon, that a minor chord is disassembled in this way. The standard pattern is the use of times in compositions or theft can have on such a style simply not a monopoly? If it was, would have to be checked every played blue scheme on copyright infringement. That is complete nonsense is obvious.
In addition, certain harmony in pop music is simple-just follow the agenda. How similar many of the Songs are, in regular intervals, like the so-called Mash-ups: Two, three or more Songs are mixed together, because their basic chords are the same: About Oasis’ “Wonderwall” and Green Day’s “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams”. More significantly, the Australian Comedy Band “The Axis Of Awesome makes it”. The have made the time short, the chord of D major-A major – b minor-G – a result, major and Amazing.
After “Blurred Lines” anything is possible
This plagiarism process is just one in a long series of similar cases. The heirs of deceased pop stars see a large financial potential in the melodies of their fathers and grandfathers, which have Similarities to current pop songs. Only last year there was fuss about the Song “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams. A sworn court saw it as proven that Thicke and Williams stole in to soul legend Marvin Gaye. For their Megahit you have copied the Gaye Song “Got To Give It Up”. The heirs could look forward to after the judgment, around seven million euros in compensation payment. And these two Songs have much less Similarity to each other than “Stairway To Heaven” and “Taurus”. So it is quite possible that the court are the heirs of the Spirit-guitarist law.