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Dean Winchester is a sucker for Led Zeppelin’s discography, as is known by avid fans of Supernatural. Many a time has the character rambled on about his love for the band, but never has the show featured a song from the legendary band, despite featuring a lot of other rock bands in the show.

There was one glaring reason why Supernatural could not feature the iconic rock band, despite it being one of the Dean Winchester’s defining characterizations, while it could do so with other bands like AC/DC, Bob Seger, Foreigner, and Styx.

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Jensen Ackles‘ Dean canonically has two favorite Led Zeppelin songs that are tied for first place among his most beloved tracks in the rock band’s discography. These include...

The soundtrack for Captain America: Brave New World has been revealed ahead of the film's release date on February 14. 

Marvel Studios movies have been known for including epic needle drops, such as Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" in Thor: Ragnarok and Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and that will continue in Captain America: Brave New World.

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The Lord of the Rings series gained popularity among political activists in the 1960s due to its anti-war and pro-environmental themes that resonated with the counterculture of the time. Led Zeppelin's songs reference The Lord of the Rings, influenced by Robert Plant's love for the series. Led Zeppelin's songs like "Ramble On," "Misty Mountain Hop," and "The Battle of Evermore" directly reference The Lord of the Rings, drawing inspiration from key moments and iconic characters.

The Lord of the Rings is one of the most influential pieces of writing to date. Thanks to J.R.R. Tolkien's meticulous world crafting and storytelling, Lotr has gone on to reshape the fantasy genre and inspire authors today. However, the influence of Tolkien's work has a history of extending beyond the literary world. An interesting example of artists referencing Middle-earth is Led Zeppelin, arguably one of the greatest bands in the history of modern music.

In anticipation of his new film, The Killer, coming to Netflix on November 10, I tip-toed through the tulips of my favorite director’s filmography and came away thinking that if David Fincher ever decided to fully wade into the waters of the horror genre?

We’d all be in deep shit. In the best of ways.

Here are the most messed up and depraved moments of David Fincher’s career… so far.

Hugging Ed Kemper – “Mindhunter” Season 1, Episode 10 (2017)

David Fincher has an amazing way of taking a simple moment and making it more intense than drinking Mountain Dew while snowboarding over a volcano. He made a movie about Facebook and it’s one of my all-time favorites for Christ’s sake.

In this scene, we have a simple conversation between two men in a hospital room that still somehow leaves you looking for Ray Finkle and a new pair of shorts.

Dolly Parton famously (twice!) declined an invitation to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump. It turns out she also rejected a similar overture from President Joe Biden.

The Today Show’s Jacob Soboroff recently interviewed Parton recently to promote her upcoming album Rockstar. While the singer didn’t discuss her decision not to accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom on camera, Soborof told The Today Show colleagues that it stemmed from her desire not to be associated with any particular party. “I just don’t want even the appearance of being partisan in any way,” he recalled her saying.

Parton did discuss her distrust of the modern political system in general, however. After Soborof read an uncharacteristically biting lyric from Parton’s new song “World on Fire” (“Greedy politicians present and past/ They wouldn’t know the truth if it bit ’em in the ass”), he asked...

Ed Sheeran won a copyright infringement trial on Thursday, and so has music itself, at least according to some music copyright experts.

With Sheeran coming away victorious in the much-publicized “Thinking Out Loud”/ “Let’s Get It On” trial, music copyright experts tell Rolling Stone they’re hopeful the decision will chill what they describe as frivolous lawsuits going forward, as the verdict tells those looking to sue that winning out isn’t so simple.

“It will give people a little bit more comfort in terms of feeling they might...

Bruce Arnold, best known as the chief songwriter and singer of the soft-rock band Orpheus, has died at age 76 in Marin County. His family confirmed the death but did not provide a date or cause.

Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Arnold founded Orpheus in 1967. he group recorded four Talbums and six singles for MGM and Bell Records, including . Its the hit single “Can’t Find The Time,” which peaked at No. 80 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969.

“Can’t Find the Time” was revived when Hootie & the Blowfish covered it in the 2000 comedy film Me, Myself & Irene, starring Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger.

Orpheus performed with such acts as the Who, Cream, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, the Lovin’ Spoonful and Blood, Sweat & Tears.

“We were right in the midst of that,” Mr. Arnold said in an interview with the Marin Independent Journal in 2012. “But Orpheus didn’t sound like the music...

Rock & roll was in full creative bloom, the film version of the Woodstock festival was about to open in theaters, and Led Zeppelin had overtaken the Beatles as favorite rock band in a U.K. poll. But 50 years ago, on February 28th, 1970, the song that would hit Number One and remain there for six weeks wasn’t a rocker but a ballad, and, it turned out, the ballad the country seemed to need at the moment as the tumultuous Sixties ended.

Musically, Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water...

Sleigh Bells have released their rendition of “Where Did You Sleep Last Night,” the haunting folk song made famous by blues musician Lead Belly in the Forties. Their cover is featured in the trailer for the upcoming film The Rhythm Section, directed by Reed Morano and starring Blake Lively and Jude Law.

The song, also known as “In the Pines” or “My Girl,” has been covered by numerous rock artists over the years, most famously by Kurt Cobain during Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged session in 1993. Sleigh Bells bring their noise-rock maximalist approach to the track,...

“On the second LP, you can really hear the group identity coming together,” Jimmy Page recalled years after the release of Led Zeppelin’s second LP. While the group recorded its first album in three weeks after a single, two-week Scandinavian tour, Led Zeppelin II was cut over six months on tour in London, New York, Vancouver and Los Angeles, with the band carrying the master tapes along the way in a steamer trunk.

“It was quite insane, really,” Page said. “We had no time, and we had to write numbers in hotel rooms.

Robert Plant was reportedly so moved by the upcoming indie film The Friend, the singer allowed for two Led Zeppelin songs to appear in the movie.

Filmmakers usually face a steep fee when they endeavor to include Led Zeppelin’s music in a movie. Considering The Friend was made on a $10 million budget, it’s unlikely director Gabriela Cowperthwaite could afford to put one of the band’s songs in the film, let alone two; Deadline reported that, under normal circumstances, the Zeppelin songs would have cost a third of The Friend‘s budget.

In real life, one of Nicole Teague’s favorite bands was Led Zeppelin. But “The Friend,” an adaptation of her last years battling terminal ovarian cancer alongside her loved ones, almost didn’t include a single song by the legendary rock band and only got final clearance to do so a week before the film’s Toronto premiere.

The Gabriela Cowperthwaite-directed tearjerker premiered Friday night at the Toronto International Film Festival with two Zeppelin songs: “Ramble On” and “Going to California.” The music plays an important role in the narrative and development of central characters Nicole (Dakota Johnson) and Dane (Jason Segel).

Cowperthwaite’s cut of the film included the songs, but producers knew it would be all but impossible to get the rights for the big-ticket tracks given the film’s $10 million budget. So Ridley Scott, whose Scott Free produced the film with Teddy Schwarzman’s Black Bear Pictures,...

Exclusive: When the Gabriela Cowperthwaite-directed drama The Friend premieres tonight in Toronto, the film’s tough subject matter – Dakota Johnson plays Nicole Teague, who at 34 was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer – was made more bearable by the presence of two classic Led Zeppelin songs. “Ramble On” and “Going to California” were cleared only days ago to be included in the drama, tunes that would have been impossible for The Friend‘s indie budget to bear were it not for the good graces of the band and in particular its legendary lead singer Robert Plant.

The Friend is an unusual and true love story which Brad Ingelsby scripted based on a 2015 Esquire article written by Nicole’s husband, Matthew Teague. It told the story of his wife’s brutal demise, and how her college friend Dane Faucheux made it somehow bearable when he insisted on leaving his job and girlfriend...

Sales of vinyl records have enjoyed constant growth in recent years. At the same time, CD sales are in a nosedive. Last year, the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) mid-year report suggested that CD sales were declining three times as fast as vinyl sales were growing. In February, the RIAA reported that vinyl sales accounted for more than a third of the revenue coming from physical releases.

Related: How to Clean and Care for Your Vinyl Collection

This trend continues in RIAA’s 2019 mid-year report, which came out on Thursday.

Amazon has announced a series of 10 stand-up specials featuring Australian comedians to premiere exclusively on Prime Video in early 2020.

Set to be filmed this month at the Coopers Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne, the specials will feature performances by Lano & Woodley, Zoë Coombs Marr, Judith Lucy, Tommy Little, Anne Edmonds, Tom Walker, Celia Pacquola, Dilruk Jayasinha, Alice Fraser and Tom Gleeson. See details of each below.

“Amazon’s comedy series and stand-up specials have excited our customers around the world, and we’re looking forward to welcoming this talented group of Australian comedians to the Prime Video family,” said James Farrell, Head of International Originals for Amazon Studios.

Here are details about the specials and the comics, per Amazon:

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Gold Logie winner. Chief celebrity interrogator. Host of the highest-rated Australian quiz show on TV. All-round hard man (especially in Cairns). There’s not much Tom Gleeson didn’t...

Whenever someone asks me what it was like to be at Woodstock, the first thing that comes to mind is not Hendrix’s “Star-Spangled Banner,” Country Joe’s F-u-c-k cheer, nude bathing, or brown acid. I always think of spaghetti and hot dogs.

That’s what I had for breakfast on Saturday morning, the second day of the festival. That was all the food our troupe of high-school hippie-wannabes — six in number, including myself, just turned 17 — had to last us the rest of the weekend. The watermelon we’d brought...

The highlights were many at this weekend’s annual Peach Music Festival at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The jam, rock, country, and bluegrass summit featured sets by Marcus King Band, Phil Lesh and Friends, Billy Strings, and Maggie Rose that embodied the spirit of community that distinguishes the Peach. On Sunday afternoon, Warren Haynes and Grace Potter reinforced that sense of musical camaraderie with a collaborative set rich in covers.

With Potter on organ and Haynes on guitar, the duo opened with Fleetwood Mac’s “Gold Dust Woman” and touched on songs by Crosby,...

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It was April 2018, and Judy Gelein was seated behind the survivors in Courtroom 61 at the Sacramento County Jail, awaiting the entrance of a man accused of being one of the most elusive serial killers/rapists in history. A suspect believed to be the Golden State Killer, linked by DNA to rapes and murders all down the coast of California, had been arrested only three days before, right here in Sacramento, where his spree began. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was in custody.

It’s not often you see a movie open where a rock star performs cunnilingus with gusto in the middle of a party, while the singer of the band doggy style fucks another and then said groupie squirts across the room in stuttering slow motion to an eruption of rowdy cheers. But hey, this is the story of Mötley Crüe, and these dirtbag lowlifes are obviously a classy bunch. Because, if you take classic tales of debauched hedonism— Led Zeppelin’s Hammer of the Gods, Aerosmith’s Walk This Way, and even Marilyn Manson’s The Long Hard Road Out of Hell— Mötley Crüe’s The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, takes the cake.

Continue reading ‘The Dirt’: Superficial Greatest Hits Look At Mötley Crüe’s Debauchery Is An Anti-Dr. Feelgood Disaster [Review] at The Playlist.

Dave Grohl had never been to Asheville, and when a wicked snowstorm hit the same December weekend that he played Warren Haynes’ annual Christmas Jam in the North Carolina town, the Foo Fighters leader wondered if he’d ever leave. Socked in by feet of snow, Grohl couldn’t fly out. But instead of holing up in his hotel, he decided to put together an impromptu show at a venue he kept hearing people rave about.

“Everyone was talking about this place the Orange Peel,” he told Rolling Stone late last winter.

There is “no timetable” according to Amazon Studios boss Jennifer Salke for the launching of the streamer’s already much hyped series based on The Lord of the Rings. However,it looks like there is a new way to find out what’s going on in the “darkest depths of Mordor,” to quote those J.R.R Tolkien fans Led Zeppelin.

Having revealed a handful of social media handles for the Jd Payne and Patrick McKay developed series earlier this week at TCA and teasing that they are “making great progress,” Salke and Amazon are now providing a map, literally.

Today online, the Jeff Bezos-founded company dropped the latest in a cryptic trio of inaugural tweets – and there may be some clues in the quest to discover what’s coming.

Explore the map: https://t.co/z9WOqI9Seo

— The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@LOTRonPrime) February 15, 2019

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It’s unlikely that Greta Van Fleet singer Josh Kiszka woke up this morning troubled by all the accusations that he’s copy-and-pasted Robert Plant’s vocal style. Or that his bandmates are too fazed by Pitchfork pegging them as Led Zeppelin–aping hacks in a scathing review of their new debut, Anthem of the Peaceful Army. The album debuted in the Top Five, and many of the shows on a world tour supporting the LP have already sold out. Besides, accusations of shameless musical pilfering have long been a rock & roll rite of passage.

Peterloo director joins Ken Loach and Robert Plant to oppose Curzon interest in Phoenix

Film directors Mike Leigh and Ken Loach and Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant have joined forces to protest against plans to hand over the running of one of Britain’s oldest independent cinemas to a commercial operator.

The Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, north London, was built in 1910 and opened in 1912 as the East Finchley Picturedrome. It is an independent art-house cinema run as a charity by a board of trustees. It is one of the oldest running cinemas in the UK and London’s oldest independent community cinema.

In Almost Famous, the 2000 film inspired by Cameron Crowe’s years as a teenage music journalist, one fictional Seventies rocker warns another about talking to a Rolling Stone reporter. “It’s Rolling Stone,” he says. “The magazine that trashed ‘Layla,’ broke up Cream, ripped every album Led Zeppelin ever made!”

Rolling Stone had, in fact, panned Zeppelin’s first two albums. “The latest of the British blues groups so conceived offers little that its twin, the Jeff Beck Group, didn’t say as well or better three months ago,” wrote...

For Steve Perry, selecting five songs that inspired him as a young singer required making some difficult choices. “This is such a tough question,” he says when we spring the task on him. “That’s because five is just not enough.” But he eventually took out his iPhone, began scrolling through songs and excitedly telling stories from his past. He contemplated “For Once in My Life” by Tony Bennett and “Sally, Go Round the Roses” by the Jaynetts, but ultimately went with these five songs.

Sam Cooke, “Cupid”

I was...

Critical derision, like musical trends, is cyclical. In a now-infamous pan of Led Zeppelin’s debut, Rolling Stone slammed guitarist Jimmy Page as a “very limited producer and a writer of weak, unimaginative songs.” Decades later, Rs named Led Zeppelin the 29th-greatest album of all time. Enter Greta Van Fleet, a Michigan-bred hard-rock quartet with a penchant for greasy “Moby Dick” riffs and wailing vocal bombast. Fittingly, even the response to their first record, Anthem of the Peaceful Army, mirrors what the Golden Gods encountered close to 50 years ago: rabid...

Marvel’s God of Thunder enjoyed (endured?) quite the journey during Avengers: Infinity War.

Having just watched Asgard collapse into oblivion – you can blame the fire-wielding Surtur for that one – Thor loses two of his most treasured accomplices in Loki and Heimdall, guardian of the Bifrost.

From there, he just so happens to land on the Milano’s windshield, ultimately being introduced to the Guardians of the Galaxy and their talking raccoon sweet rabbit. Together, they plot course for the Dwarven realm of Nidavellir, where they hope to forge a Thanos-killer. The end result is Stormbreaker, a weapon so powerful it’s able to summon the Bifrost and allow Thor and his newfound allies – namely Groot and Rocket – to beam down into Wakanda in the nick of time. What a moment.

You’ll be pleased to note that Thor is expected to wield Stormbreaker during Avengers 4, too, as another piece...

Rachid Taha, the French-Algerian singer best known for fusing rock with raï, a form of traditional Algerian folk, has died from a heart attack at age 59.

“It is with regret and immense sadness that his son Lyes, his family and relatives, his friends and his record label Naïve, announce the death of artist Rachid Taha, following a heart attack overnight at his home in the Lilas [near Paris],” the singer’s family wrote in a statement on Wednesday.

Taha was born in 1958 in Algeria but moved to Lyon, France with his family...

“As it’s plain to see,” Dmc explained to an audience of tens of thousands in 1985, “we have no band, just Jam Master Jay.”

Broadcast to a potential audience of nearly two billion people the world over, Run-d.M.C.’s performance at the 1985 Live Aid concerts was probably hip-hop’s most-witnessed seven minutes in the years before the genre had a single platinum record.

“For us it was a lot of pressure ’cause [concert promoter] Bill Graham personally requested that we be there,” Dmc told Rolling Stone in 2016. “At first, from what I hear,...

On September 7th, 1968, Led Zeppelin played their first live show ever in, of all places, a converted gym in Gladsaxe, Denmark. They weren’t yet billed under their soon-to-be world-famous name but were instead performing under the guise of the New Yardbirds, a relaunch of the British Invasion blues rockers who’d imploded just months before. The only known quantity among this new lineup was guitarist Jimmy Page, who’d funded the tour through Scandinavia out of his own pocket, but that was enough draw a young crowd to the venue,...

If you're looking for a good way to break the ice with that family member you haven't seen in a long time, perhaps this is the way to get the conversation rolling. Using only his hands, Gerry Phillips performs Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" using what is commonly referred to as "hand farts". The beginning is a bit slow going, so if you find the person you're showings attention waning it might be a good idea to skip to the solo which, in a word, is everything. Skip to 5:50 if you really want to be amazed, but really this whole video is gold. ...

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword brought a monarch to Vegas.

Charlie Hunnam stars in the stylized take on the legend from director by Guy Ritchie, and came out to Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."

He promised rather than an honorable man, to expect a portrayal that is "the exact opposite" of the Arthurian legend's we've seen on screen before. 

"He's as far you can imagine from royalty," he said.

The film also stars Jude Law as a wicked ruler Vortigern. David Beckham (who on Wednesday showed off a major scar he rocks in the film) and Djimon Hounsou are also in...

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The latest episode of The Flash season 3 may not be weighty but it certainly is fun...

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3.4 The New Rogues

Oh, hello. Was the script for The New Rogues left over from season one? That's not a knock on it, by the way. I enjoyed the hell out of this episode. But it sure did take a lot out of that first season playbook, which is just fine.

Villain of the week episodes are unavoidable, and fortunately The Flash is uniquely suited to them, since Central City (and neighboring Keystone) boast...

Ed Sheeran is reportedly being sued by the estate of Ed Townsend, who cowrote Marvin Gaye's 1973 hit "Let's Get It On," on the basis that Sheeran's song "Thinking Out Loud" contains similarities that verge on duplication. Sheehan, 25, is also facing a lawsuit over his song "Photograph" and its supposed "striking similarities" to another song by songwriters Martin Harrington and Tom Leonard. If Sheeran can take any solace in his legal troubles this summer, it's that he's hardly the first musician to be sued for copyright infringement. Below, some of the more famous cases from the past decade. Led Zeppelin vs.

Ed Sheeran is reportedly being sued by the estate of Ed Townsend, who cowrote Marvin Gaye's 1973 hit "Let's Get It On," on the basis that Sheeran's song "Thinking Out Loud" contains similarities that verge on duplication. Sheehan, 25, is also facing a lawsuit over his song "Photograph" and its supposed "striking similarities" to another song by songwriters Martin Harrington and Tom Leonard. If Sheeran can take any solace in his legal troubles this summer, it's that he's hardly the first musician to be sued for copyright infringement. Below, some of the more famous cases from the past decade. Led Zeppelin vs.

The legal saga over the iconic Led Zeppelin song “Stairway to Heaven” is going into extra innings — or extra verses, if you prefer. The attorney for Michael Skidmore — the man who unsuccessfully sued Led Zeppelin for copyright infringement two years ago — has filed a notice of appeal in the case. “Please take notice that Plaintiff Michael Skidmore, Trustee for the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust, hereby appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from the final judgment entered on June 23, 2016, as well as any and all interlocutory rulings, decisions, and orders that...

Led Zeppelin were cleared of copyright infringement charges on Thursday — when a Los Angeles jury decided the band did not steal from Spirit’s “Taurus” when writing “Stairway to Heaven.” Led Zeppelin Found Not Guilty In Copyright Suit Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page were accused of copying key note patterns in the […]

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Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and vocalist Robert Plant walked away triumphant on Thursday in a trial over whether their signature song “Stairway to Heaven” was stolen from the 1968 Spirit track “Taurus.” How did the musicians clear their names in the case? Well, primarily, the eight-person jury found that the songs weren’t similar enough to constitute copyright infringement. But TheWrap took a deeper delve into the strategies and situations surrounding the trial, speaking to legal experts about the nitty-gritty of the proceedings. Read on to find out how the group convinced the jury that the songs don’t sound...

Led Zeppelin have won a copyright infringement case over their classic song 'Stairway to Heaven'.

A federal jury rejected a lawsuit alleging that songwriters Jimmy Page and Robert Plant stole the opening guitar riff of the anthem from a tune written by the late Randy Wolfe.

An eight-person jury decided there was not enough evidence to support claims by the estate of the late Spirit songwriter/guitarist that the beginning of Stairway to Heaven was grabbed from Spirit instrumental Taurus on Thursday (23Jun16) after a week-long trial in Los Angeles.

Page and Plant testified during the trial, insisting they had no knowledge of Wolfe's Spirit track before they composed Stairway To Heaven. They were both cleared of any wrongdoing on Thursday morning.

Before his death, Wolfe was often asked about the similarities between his 1968 instrumental and Led Zep's 1971 tune, but he always refused to take legal action.

Upon his death,...

After a week-long trial - and two years of legal posturing - Led Zeppelin have won the copyright lawsuit claiming that they had plagiarized the music for their beloved classic, "Stairway to Heaven." Following a day of deliberation, the eight-member Los Angeles jury reached an unanimous decision that guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant did not lift the song's iconic arpeggiated intro from the California band Spirit's 1968 instrumental, "Taurus." Witnesses say the rock legends warmly embraced their defense team as the verdict was read. Following the decision, Page and Plant issued a joint statement: "We are grateful for the...

After a week-long trial - and two years of legal posturing - Led Zeppelin have won the copyright lawsuit claiming that they had plagiarized the music for their beloved classic, "Stairway to Heaven." Following a day of deliberation, the eight-member Los Angeles jury reached an unanimous decision that guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant did not lift the song's iconic arpeggiated intro from the California band Spirit's 1968 instrumental, "Taurus." Witnesses say the rock legends warmly embraced their defense team as the verdict was read. Following the decision, Page and Plant issued a joint statement: "We are grateful for the...

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant didn't jack the rock classic "Stairway to Heaven" ... according to the jury in their song theft trial. The verdict came in Thursday morning -- after less than a day of deliberation -- and the jury ruled in favor of Zeppelin. The trustee for songwriter Randy Wolfe, from the group Spirit, had sued claiming the iconic 'Stairway' guitar riff was lifted from Spirit's song, "Taurus." The jury didn't...

The courtroom did echo with victory for Led Zeppelin on Thursday, as a jury of eight people determined that the group did not rip off the 1968 Spirit song “Taurus” with its signature 1971 anthem “Stairway to Heaven.” The verdict brought to an end a two-year legal saga that began in 2014, when Michael Skidmore — trustee of the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust — filed suit, claiming that “Stairway” infringed on “Taurus,” which was written by Spirit frontman Wolfe, who performed under the name Randy California. The jury found that, while Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and vocalist Robert Plant did have...

As the copyright trial revolving around Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” winds to a close, the heated rhetoric that’s marked the legal proceedings has not cooled off, with the attorney for the plaintiff calling the group “session musicians playing other people’s music” during his closing statement. The comment drew a disgusted head shake from Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, who was in the Los Angeles courtroom, along with the group’s guitarist Jimmy Page. Led Zeppelin is being sued by Michael Skidmore, the trustee of the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust, named after the deceased frontman for the group Spirit.

Jurors in a Los Angeles courtroom received a rock ‘n’ roll history lesson on Tuesday, as Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant testified about the development of their signature song “Stairway to Heaven.” Plant and Page are accused of ripping off the 1968 Spirit song “Taurus” while writing “Stairway,” released in 1971. During Tuesday’s testimony, jurors were played four early recordings, providing insight into what would eventually become one of the best-known anthems in rock history. In one recording, Page could be heard playing the song on acoustic guitar while teaching the tune to Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul.

A week into the copyright trial over the Led Zeppelin classic “Stairway to Heaven,” the band’s singer took the stand to testify on Tuesday. Plant’s appearance followed earlier testimony by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page — who was called back to the stand on Tuesday — and bassist John Paul Jones. Read on for highlights from Robert Plant’s testimony. Also Read: Led Zeppelin Asks Judge to End 'Stairway to Heaven' Trial Plant revealed the inspiration for his “Stairway to Heaven” lyrics. Under questioning Tuesday, the vocalist recalled the origin of “Stairway to Heaven,” saying that the song was created at rehearsal and recording.

Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant doesn't remember seeing Spirit perform at a U.K. club, according to his testimony on the stand in court Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. His band is accused of ripping off a riff of Spirit's "Taurus" for "Stairway to Heaven" and Plant's presence at the show is allegedly proof of access. But the singer said he visited that club, Mother's in Birmingham, 40 to 50 times in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He described it as a clubhouse for local musicians to hang out, adding that other country clubs drew older crowds who only

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Led Zeppelin is seeking an expressway to victory in its “Stairway to Heaven” trial. Lawyers for the group, which is accused of ripping off another song in writing its 1971 classic “Stairway to Heaven,” have asked judge R. Gary Klausner to rule in their favor, claiming the plaintiff, who rested on Friday, failed to make his case. The group is being sued by Michael Skidmore, trustee of the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust. Skidmore asserts that “Stairway” infringes on the 1968 Spirit song “Taurus,” written by Spirit frontman Wolfe (stage name: Randy California). Also Read: John Paul Jones Testifies at Led Zeppelin Trial: 5 Standout.

The "Stairway to Heaven" trial — the one examining if Led Zeppelin lifted its famous song from Spirit's 1967 instrumental "Taurus" — hasn't yet made it to the chorus of a jury's deliberations. However, on Monday, attorneys for Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and Warner Music urged U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner to halt the proceedings now because the plaintiff hasn't established the elements of copyright infringement. The move comes after Michael Skidmore, the trustee who manages the estate of songwriter Randy Wolfe, rested his case after three days of testimony. The plaintiff, represented by attorney Francis Malofiy, played the two songs and tried to pin Page

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The rock band Led Zeppelin is in the midst of a copyright trial over the song “Stairway to Heaven.” The group is being sued by the band Spirit, which accuses the group of stealing elements from their song “Taurus.” Guitarist Jimmy Page testified Wednesday that he’d never heard “Taurus“ until a few years ago, “Something like […]

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