I wonder how many similar suits have been filed by folks in the Country Music genre.
I always find these suits amusing. If it got past the opening lick, if a singer came in and sang "There's a girlfriend I know, and she loves to snort blow, and she's riding freight train to Cle-e-v-land." to the same melody as Stairway, I'd get it. But that opening riff? It's an arpeggiated Am chord with the bass line walking down from the root to end in a C chord. Jimmy Page didn't invent that and neither did Spirit. If you played guitar in isolation, without ever listening to pop music, you'd probably get to it eventually.
Tim
it seems that piece is a public domain written in baroque era by harpist O'Carolan
https://musictales.club/article/celtic-baroque-roots-stairway-heaven
Always found it distasteful that the Brit's stole the music from USA's My Country Tis of Thee for their God Save The Queen tune.
Always found it distasteful that the Brit's stole the music from USA's My Country Tis of Thee for their God Save The Queen tune.
Three days ago it made the news again ...
• https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/led-zeppelin-retrial-stairway-to-heaven-suit-730941/
It won't stop till the year 3030 ...
• https://915thebeat.com/news/4503434/led-zeppelin-copyright-trial/
We will be reading about it long after we're gone.