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Monday, May 2, 2016

On This Day - your Jimmy Page archive

Just a reminder that past On This Day posts from Jimmy Page's website are archived here at Mage Music. Just use the blog navigation in the right-hand column and look for posts that say "On This Day" and that provide the date you're interested in.

Mage Music - because the best music is Magickal

Note that JP may post new ones... and if he does, I'll post them here, too.

Monday, April 18, 2016

Plagiaat Stairway - Van der Laan en Woe

This is so awesome! Everybody can be sued!

His stairway all the way to the bank

Sunday, April 17, 2016

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

Friday, April 15, 2016

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, ...

Thursday, April 14, 2016

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.

Monday, April 11, 2016

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.