A Los Angeles jury estimated Thursday that the famous song Led Zeppelin, “Stairway to Heaven” was not plaqiada an instrumental theme Californian group Spirit.
the legendary ballad “Led Zep ‘”, one of the legendary bands in rock history, had been the subject of a lawsuit two years ago by administrator succession guitarist Spirit, Randy California, who demanded millions of dollars in damages and interest.
Page and Plant were sued for allegedly copying the mythical, melancholy guitar melody opening “Stairway to Heaven” of “Taurus”, a subject of Spirit, a missing psychedelic rock band from Los Angeles, published three years before the composition of Led Zeppelin.
According to the jury four men and four women, who had begun to deliberate on Wednesday, singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page evidently had access to the song “ Taurus ” the disappeared Spirit group, but Michael Skidmore failed prove that elements that subject are “intrinsically related” to “Stairway to Heaven”.
Robert Plant, the lead singer of the British group, had declared Tuesday before the US justice who wrote the theme decades ago in the English countryside.
“that particular night I sat with Jimmy near the fire, and had the first couplet that matched what I was playing,” he testified, while evoked the drive letter of the famous song and highlighted the Celtic reminiscences and references to the pastoral air of old England that has the issue.
Page said last week that its chord progression had more in common with “ Chim Chim Cher -ee “1964 musical” Mary Poppins “than anything else.
also exbajista Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones rejected the accusations against his two excompañeros group.
Jones recalled hearing what later became “Stairway to Heaven” in Headley Grange and then he and Page worked in the first arrangement of the song.
the musical expert Lawrence Ferrara, University of New York, testified that the same similarities can be found between “Stairway to Heaven” and “Taurus” could be found in compositions written by many musicians over the past 300 years. “There are no relevant similarities” between the two issues, he said.
Led Zeppelin, comprising Plant, Page, Jones and drummer John Bonham, who died in 1980, had acted as support band Spirit on December 26, 1968 in the city of Denver (Colorado), in his first appearance in the United States.
However, the three survivors of the group rose to the court a statement in which they say They never maintained substantial relations with Spirit and heard “Taurus”, written in 1967, before “Stairway to Heaven” be composed between December 1970 and January 1971.
The lawsuit, filed two years ago by Michael Skidmore, manager of heritage and friend of Randy Califronia, was seeking damages and to be recognized musician Spirit authorship of “rock greatest song”.
the indictment said that 16 other songs of Led Zeppelin have been the subject of litigation, several of them involving agreements concluded with recognition and financial compensation for the group. Among the disputed issues include hits “Whole Lotta Love” and “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”.
Randy California, guitarist Spirit who wrote “Taurus” said long he must have received some credit for “Stairway to Heaven”, but never sued Led Zeppelin. The musician drowned in Hawaii in 1997.
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