Compare: Did Led Zeppelin steal 'Stairway to Heaven' from Spirit's 'Taurus'?
It starts to sound awfully familiar at the 0:45 mark.
Your first reaction, same as mine, was, "It couldn't be! Page and Plant didn't steal Stairway to Heaven from some band no one ever heard of." But that's been the claim for some time of the estate of "Randy California" - real name Randy Wolfe, who was Spirit's lead guitarist and who wrote the song Taurus.
Spirit recorded Taurus in 1968. Zeppelin played some shared gigs with Spirit in 1968 and 1969, and released Stairway to Heaven in 1971. The ripoff claim is hardly new. It's been around since at least 1979, when Wolfe himself made the accusation just months before his death by drowning in Hawaii. But this is the first time the claim has gotten as far as a trial.Welcome to CFP’s Comment Section!
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