Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven may be partly stolen...

[bluesky]

"Bad artists copy... great artists steal." (Picasso)

 

[HVHiFI]

". Zep didn't copy The Blues. Zep replaced The Blues with something better, more inspired, more energetic, more trippy, more popular, more kick-ass. If you want The Blues listen to Muddy Waters.

If you want to rock listen to Zep.

Funny you mention Mr. Waters, check out You Need Love ~ Muddy Waters

Plant said he was a huge influence on him.

 

[sKiZo]

Just goes to prove, musicians shouldn't be allowed to listen to music ...

 

[SoundOfSound]

Oh Jeez!!!

"
T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair.
But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her, her, her....yeah."

Now they are gonna owe the J. R. R. Tolkien estate some $$$

 

[loopstick]

I saw Muddy Waters live at The Bottom Line. It was like listening to some old guy sitting on a peanut barrel.

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[valvenator]

Oh Jeez!!!

"
T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair.
But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her, her, her....yeah."

Now they are gonna owe the J. R. R. Tolkien estate some $$$

Heh, if Peter Grant was still around Tolkien and J.K. Rawlings would be paying royalties to Zep.
Anyone else here see Wanes World, the movie? There's a scene where the boys walk into a music store, one picks up a guitar and starts to play the infamous intro to stairway.
The proprietor points to a sign that says No Stairway to Heaven. Saw that part of the movie recently and the music had been replaced with some beginner garbage guitar noise.

 

[KrisM]

Led Zeppelin: Plagiarism? “Hats Off to (Roy) Harper”
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I'm well aware of where Plant grabbed his lyrics, and have read that link(or similar). Listened to a few of the ones mentioned in that link over the last few weeks, actually.
I enjoy what Plant did with them, but the facts are the facts.

 

[Jack Lord]

Oh Jeez!!!

"
T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair.
But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her, her, her....yeah."

Now they are gonna owe the J. R. R. Tolkien estate some $$$

Only if the Kinks and REM owe Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster some $$$.

 

[dedindi]

it seems the piece is a public domain written in the Baroque era by blind harpist O'Carolan

https://musictales.club/article/celtic-baroque-roots-stairway-heaven

 

[ETLS]

It's a good thing flatulence hasn't been copyrighted or we'd all be paying out the ass.

 

[4-2-7]

it seems the piece is a public domain written in the Baroque era by blind harpist O'Carolan

https://musictales.club/article/celtic-baroque-roots-stairway-heaven

Can you find a Classical on this one recorded in 1966?

 

[dedindi]

Can you find a Classical on this one recorded in 1966?

it's exactly not a classical music piece but it seems that LZ copied from here both the riff and motive for their whole wanna love

 

[dedindi]

It's a good thing flatulence hasn't been copyrighted or we'd all be paying out the ass.

wow! cool idea for future generations =)