Plagiaat Stairway - Van der Laan en Woe

This is so awesome!  Everybody can be sued!

His stairway all the way to the bank

Led Zeppelin are not thieves: “Stairway to Heaven” fight rests on a nearly impossible copyright standard

Led Zeppelin are not thieves: “Stairway to Heaven” fight rests on a nearly impossible copyright standard

Blues and folk music have long been full of borrowing. But so has pop and rock -- and the legal standard is blurry.

PAUL CAMPOS

Just Backdated: STAIRWAY TO THE HIGH COURT

Just Backdated: STAIRWAY TO THE HIGH COURT: Like a nasty dose of some STD that simply won’t go away, the issue of whether or not Jimmy Page and, to a lesser extent, Robert Plant, ...

Who's Buying This 'Stairway to Heaven' Lawsuit?

Who's Buying This 'Stairway to Heaven' Lawsuit?: A 2014 lawsuit alleging that Led Zeppelin ripped off a lesser-known band to produce Stairway to Heaven will proceed to a jury trial, a California judge decided this week. The filing claims that Stairway's opening acoustic guitar part sounds almost identical to a portion of the song Taurus, written and performed by the American rock band Spirit. Writing in the complaint filed on behalf of the trust established in the name of Spirit's late vocalist, Randy Craig Wolfe, lawyer Francis Malofiy states that the similarities are obvious. Any reasonable observer, when comparing 'Taurus' and 'Stairway to Heaven,' must conclude that—at the very least—significant portions of the songs are nearly identical, the document reads. U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner bought the argument enough to allow the suit to proceed to trial. While the chord progression shared by the two songs is common in music, Klausner wrote in his opinion, the similarities here transcend this core structure. An expert for the plaintiff said some of those include musical accompaniment (the presence of acoustic guitar, strings recorder/flute sounds, and harpsichord) and the Renaissance style of both songs.

On This Day 11 April

The never ending Magick...

2010 11 April On This Day Jimmy Page went to a Bad Company concert at Wembley

2010 Paul Rodgers & Jimmy Page, Bad Company at Wembley (Ross Halfin photo)

• 1968 The Yardbirds-Boston,MA  at Boston Tea Party
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - St. Louis MO at Kiel Auditorium

Today is Mage Music's last daily On This Day post!  Last year I committed to providing a full year's worth, and now that it's done I won't post any more unless Jimmy Page's website offers some new ones. You can view each of them by clicking on the date in the right-hand navigation column.

Stay tuned for new posts here on the Mage Music blog about the music and Magick of Jimmy Page, as well as previews of new Mage Music projects. In the meantime, enjoy a few magazine covers featuring Jimmy Page over the years plus more of the best music in the world.

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♪  Baby Who's Driving Your Car (Jimmy Page, John Williams 1970) YouTube
♪  Asylum (Box of Frogs feat. Jimmy Page 1986) YouTube
♪  Writes of Winter (Jimmy Page, Outrider 1988) YouTube
♪  Absolution Blues (Coverdale/Page 1993) YouTube
♪  Depot Studio Session/Domino (Soundcloud)
♪  Domino (Jimmy Page, Net Aid East Rutherford NJ 1999) YouTube
♪  Kashmir (Page/Plant/Jones/Jason Bonham, O2 2007) YouTube
♪  Ramble On (Jimmy Page, It Might Get Loud 2008) YouTube
♪  Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin, Sunset Sound Mix/Remaster 2014) YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
♪ Page & Plant playlist at YouTube

On This Day 10 April

Jimmy Page, fashionista

1977 10 April On This Day Stormtrooper outfit debut, Chicago

• 1968 The Yardbirds - Miami Beach FL at Thee Image Club (day 3 of 3)
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Miami Beach FL at Miami Beach Convention Center
• 1977 Led Zeppelin - Chicago IL at Chicago Stadium (day 4 of 4)
• 1995 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Boston MA at Boston Garden

1970:

Much was made in the press of the fact that there were now no opening acts for Led Zeppelin shows, and that the shows were 2 1/2 hours and more long. "We think people come to see us, not an unknown opening act," Jimmy Page was quoted as saying. "So we play the whole thing." Nevertheless this show was cut short, apparently due to conflict between fans who could not get into the sold-out performance and Miami Beach police.

1970 Led Zeppelin, Miami Beach

1977:
Serendipity: when something that happens seemingly not on purpose turns out to be a good thing.

The storm trooper outfit has generated much speculation over the years as to its symbolism, but to me there's a simple, if inelegant, explanation: Jimmy Page had food poisoning the night before. If you've ever agonized through it yourself you'll know what I mean when I say that the storm trooper outfit might have been what he had to wear until the white satin poppy suit was returned from the cleaners. Am I saying this is what actually happened? No. But maybe.

1977 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, Chicago

2004 April Player Magazine (Ross Halfin photo)

2014 Matt Cameron, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Tokyo (Ross Halfin photo)

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♪  Audience footage (Led Zeppelin, Chicago 10 April 1977) YouTube
♪  Gallows Pole (Page & Plant, Boston Garden 1995) YouTube

♪ Mage Music 1 playlist at YouTube
♪ Mage Music 2 playlist at YouTube
♪ Page & Plant playlist at YouTube

NOTICE: Tomorrow will be the last daily On This Day post as that will be a full year's worth. I won't post any more unless Jimmy Page's website offers some new ones. Stay tuned for new posts here on the Mage Music blog about the music and Magick of JIMMY PAGE and previews of new Mage Music projects!