LED ZEPPELIN “Deny Each And Every Allegation” In “Stairway To Heaven” Lawsuit
May 24, 2015, 8 years ago
According to Boston.com, surviving Led Zeppelin stars Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones have filed a response to the lawsuit claiming that “Stairway To Heaven” was stolen from an obscure song by the band Spirit. In the paperwork, Page, Plant and Jones admit to having played a concert with Spirit, and to using part of the Spirit song “Fresh Garbage” in a medley they performed during some concerts in 1968 and 1969. Led Zeppelin “deny each and every allegation" in the lawsuit. The band is being sued by Michael Skidmore, the trustee for trust of Spirit frontman Randy Craig Wolfe, who performed under the name Randy California and died in 1997.
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