In 1997, Randy California, the deceased guitarist of the 1960s band Spirit, accused Led Zeppelin of plagiarizing Spirit’s “Taurus,” video above, for the opening notes of the band’s most iconic song, ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Led Zeppelin did not steal the opening guitar riff of the band's song "Stairway to Heaven" from the defunct Los Angeles group Spirit, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. An ...

Led Zeppelin on Monday persuaded a U.S. appeals court to reinstate a jury verdict that it did not steal the opening guitar riff for “Stairway to Heaven” from an obscure song written four years earlier ...

Oct. 5 (Reuters) — British rock band Led Zeppelin on Monday effectively won a long running legal battle over claims it stole the opening guitar riff from its signature 1971 song, "Stairway to Heaven." ...

Led Zeppelin first won the copyright lawsuit claiming that they had plagiarized the music for the hit track in June 2016 PEOPLE, Music Writer and Reporter Led Zeppelin is in the clear once again. On ...

A US judge has tossed out rock band Led Zeppelin’s attempt to dismiss a copyright claim over its 1970s hit “Stairway to Heaven” before the case goes to trial. Judge Juan Sanchez at the US District ...

Rosy Cordero is a former digital news writer at Entertainment Weekly. She left EW in 2021. The lawsuit goes back to 2014, when Michael Skidmore, a trustee for Spirit guitarist Randy California (born ...

WASHINGTON – DECEMBER 2: (AFP OUT) Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones (L-R) of the band Led Zeppelin attend the Kennedy Center Honors reception at the White House on December 2, 2012 in ...