VideoA lawsuit was just commenced by the band Spirit against Led Zeppelin claiming the iconic guitar arpeggio opening of “Stairway to Heaven” infringes Spirit’s 1968 instrumental track ...

As Led Zeppelin‘s plagiarism trial over the authorship of “Stairway to Heaven” comes to a close, and we wait for the jury's verdict on the matter, we decided to poll a few of our own experts ...

Read our primer on Spirit, the vintage L.A. psych-rock act that's now facing Led Zeppelin in a high-profile copyright suit.

Spirit and Led Zeppelin were popular rock bands in the 70s. The original lawsuit was filed against Led Zeppelin, the individual members of the band—Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones ...

From Ed Sheeran back to Led Zeppelin, Variety lists landmark copyright infringement cases in the music industry that made it to a court verdict.

Led Zeppelin attorney Peter Anderson also wasn’t afraid to play rough, referencing the alleged illegitimate son of Wolfe’s mother during cross-examination and contending that Spirit’s music ...

Does Led Zeppelin owe Spirit a songwriting credit for ‘Stairway to Heaven’? May 21, 2014. John Bonham, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. (Courtesy Atlantic Records) ...

“Stairway To Heaven” is perhaps Led Zeppelin‘s most iconic hit. It’s fitting, then, that the band with a reputation for lifting some of their best work might also have plagiarized that ...

At 10:55am in Court 850 of the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building and United States Courthouse, Plant took the stand for the defense in “Michael Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin et al,” making him the ...

The lawyer who failed to persuade a Los Angeles jury in June that Led Zeppelin stole the introduction of “Stairway to Heaven” from an earlier song by L.A. rock band Spirit has been suspended ...

Just yesterday we heard Led Zeppelin may be recording Led Zeppelin V, so let’s celebrate this news in a geeky way with this custom mod by Fred Murphy.He made a tool in Visual C# 2010 which could ...

Physical Graffiti singer Doug Putnam, doing his best to sound like Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, paused in the middle of the group’s first number, “Rock and Roll.” The audience took the cue.