{"id":740,"date":"2014-05-23T08:34:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T16:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=740"},"modified":"2014-05-23T08:34:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T16:34:43","slug":"music-friday-plagiarism-lawsuit-may-delay-led-zeppelin-vi-re-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-plagiarism-lawsuit-may-delay-led-zeppelin-vi-re-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday! Plagiarism Lawsuit May Delay Led Zeppelin VI Re-release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-plagiarism-lawsuit-may-delay-led-zeppelin-vi-re-release\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday! Plagiarism Lawsuit May Delay Led Zeppelin VI Re-release\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">Classic Rock and lawsuits go together like&#8230;like&#8230;well it just seems ike a lot of classic rockers sue each other. \u00a0And now\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #24890d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/led-zeppelins-stairway-to-heaven-targeted-for-plagiarism-20140519\" target=\"_blank\">lawyers for the family of deceased &#8220;Spirit&#8221; guitarist Randy California may file suit against Led Zeppelin to ensure that California gets a writing credit on Stariway to Heaven<\/a><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">, which California claims Led Zeppelin &#8220;ripped off&#8217; after the groups toured together in 1968. \u00a0The basis of the lawsuit is that &#8220;Stairway to Heaven&#8221; is plagiarised from the Spirit song &#8220;Taurus&#8221; \u00a0Give a listen and see what you think. \u00a0Personally, I don&#8217;t hear it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xd8AVbwB_6E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CPSkNFODVRE\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What I find interesting though, is that the bands Led Zeppelin and Spirit toured together in 1968 &#8211; today the Led Zeppelin guys (the surviving ones) are wealthy music icons, and Randy California is basically unknown and apparently died penniless. \u00a0Such is life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For Randy California &#8211; some of us know who you are. \u00a0For what it&#8217;s worth, thanks. \u00a0If you don&#8217;t remember any Spirit tunes, this is probably their most famous song. \u00a0Enjoy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BeQ9kw818NQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Classic Rock and lawsuits go together like&#8230;like&#8230;well it just seems ike a lot of classic rockers sue each other. \u00a0And now\u00a0lawyers for the family of deceased &#8220;Spirit&#8221; guitarist Randy California may file suit against Led Zeppelin to ensure that California gets a writing credit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}