Led Zeppelin stole Stairway To Heaven

WilyCoyote

Led Zeppelin are on the back foot as Stairway To Heaven court case nears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd8AVbwB_6E is where they stole the chordsgot their inspiration. Listen to Spirit's disc and make up your own minds. Zepplein opened for Spirit on a US tour so were able to hear the instrumental.

AlmightyCushion

Led Zeppelin are such dirty thieves. Their song Kashmir ripped off Wake Up by Rage Against The Machine.

endacl

Love Zep. Don't care.

Effects

There's a court case? How come it took so long?

WoollyRedHat

Effects wrote: »

There's a court case? How come it took so long?

Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

Turpentine

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Led Zeppelin are such dirty thieves. Their song Kashmir ripped off Wake Up by Rage Against The Machine.

Troubling stuff. Rumours abound that the Zep procured a time-machine some time in the late sixties, whereby they proceeded to also pilfer some vibes off upcoming Black Keys and Royal Blood records. Watch the skies people.

Turpentine

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

Is there a bustle in your hedge-row?

jacksie66

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Turpentine

jacksie66 wrote: »

Which ripped off puff daddy's come with me..

Everyone knows Godzilla wrote Come With Me originally, Puff Daddy just stole the glory.

WoollyRedHat

Turpentine wrote: »

Is there a bustle in your hedge-row?

It's just a spring clean for the May queen.. Zig-a-zig-ah

AlmightyCushion

jacksie66 wrote: »

Which ripped off puff daddy's come with me..

They're a bunch of thieves too. They release a song call how I could just kill a man which rips off some of the lyrics of a cypress hill song. Completely disgraceful stuff.

Oranage2

Most over rated song ever!

Kidchameleon

"Dazed and Confused" was plagiarized aswell.

Eileen Down

And to make things worse, those ACDC brats stole a highway to hell and some git (possibly maybe Liam Gallagher)stole my rope ladder to purgatory.

* shakes fist

Lovely Bloke

Zep stole more than STH

googled eyes

Zeppelin have settled out of court quite a few times

Hordak

Most overrated band of all time. And a boring song.

copeyhagen

txfm 'soundalikes' (aka songs that people have sampled others in)

fook me, thousands of court cases imminent!

SEPT 23 1989

One of the greatest bands ever to roam the Earth

circadian

Whole Lotta love guitar riff is an old folk song in reverse.

Tons of their stuff is nicked from elsewhere. Still sounds good :-D

OldRio

circadian wrote: »

Whole Lotta love guitar riff is an old folk song in reverse.

And if you play some of their records backwards you can hear the devil. Honest. Creepy.

cloud493

I don't like the Led Zepplin version of that song anyway.

Miss Lizzie Jones

Hordak wrote: »

And a boring song.

Tell me about it. I still cringe at the thought of an old boyfriend singing it in my ear while we were on a bus on the way to his parent's house.

Never cared for that song.

humanji

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

One of the greatest bands ever to roam the Earth

They're no S Club 7.

Didn't Jimmy Page also kidnap some girl and threaten to kill her? Bands just aren't up to the same fun shenanigans these days.

OldGoat

Robert Johnson sue everyone.

gerrybbadd

Wasn't Jimmy Page a bit of a paedo as well? How come there was no witch hunt for him a la Rolf / Saville?

Beano

OldRio wrote: »

And if you play some of their records backwards you can hear the devil. Honest. Creepy.

nah. if you play their records backwards all you hear is the sound of your older brother giving out to you for scratching his records.

OldRio

Beano wrote: »

nah. if you play their records backwards all you hear is the sound of your older brother giving out to you for scratching his records.

Unfortunately, I am the older brother and they are my records.:D

The Peanut

Always thought Hairway to Steven by Butthole Surfers was one of the cleverer album titles out there.

Irish Guitarist

Most of Led Zeppelins lyrics are from old blues songs. They often joined a couple of songs together and gave them new names. For instance How Many More Times uses parts of Howlin' Wolfs song How Many More Years and the Albert King song The Hunter.

Jeff Beck once accused Jimmy Page of stealing his ideas by covering 'his' song You Shook Me, which was a bit rich as it was already a cover of a song written by Willie Dixon and originally recorded by Muddy Waters.

stefan idiot jones

I watched this a few years ago, yes they are fcukin' theives.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JyvLsutfI5M

stefan idiot jones

I watched this a few years ago, yes they are fcukin' theives.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JyvLsutfI5M

MadYaker

Most of their first album was "borrowed" from American blues artists. Still a seriously talented bunch of lads and one of the best bands ever.

Yamanoto

This was a traditional Irish tune, though the very distinctive guitar arrangement was all Bert Jansch's work.

Jimmy Page credited it to himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Gcu0Sv6lk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGww9FPvyFA

ScumLord

I think this is going to become more and more of an issue, there's only so many ways you can combine a limited set of notes in a musical way. At the speed and frequency that they bring out new music these days every song is going to end up being in some way a rip off of some other song.

The whole idea of original music is a bit daft anyway, nothing happens in isolation. Unless some musician lives in a cave his whole life and learns how to play an instrument in isolation having never listened to another piece of music his copying something.

This of course is only a problem when your commercialising music for profit. Mixing bits of music and songs together to make a new song has been happening for millennia. Isn't it basically how traditional Irish music works.