Yet “Stairway to Heaven” wasn’t just a show of force for Bonham. He sits out more than half the song and makes a gentle entrance with a delicate snare-tom fill.

Last week the en banc 9th Circuit heard argument in the case of Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin, involving the claim that the famous opening guitar riff in Led Zeppelin's classic "Stairway to Heaven ...

1. “Stairway to Heaven,” Led Zeppelin. A classic great song. One of the best. If you listen closely, it's about a lady seeking a false god.

The music business will experience collective déjà vu next week when Led Zeppelin goes back to court facing claims that it ripped off its signature “Stairway to Heaven” from Spirit’s ...

The Supreme Court will not hear the copyright dispute over Led Zeppelin 's "Stairway to Heaven," handing the English rock band a victory by default. According to Variety and Bloomberg Law, the ...

Like “ Stairway to Heaven ” itself, the copyright lawsuit against the iconic Led Zeppelin song is winding, dramatic and complex. While the first case seemingly wrapped in 2016, with a judge ...

Classic rock was sometimes seen as the devil’s music but it knew how to get biblical. For example, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” resembles a famous Bible story.

The “Stairway to Heaven” case illustrates that there are a lot of unsettled issues in copyright law when it comes to music, said Jacqueline Charlesworth, a former general counsel with the ...

“Taurus” was written by guitarist Randy Wolfe, known as Randy California, in 1968 — three years before “Stairway to Heaven” was created. Wolfe died in 1997.

Reporting from San Francisco — “Stairway to Heaven” will get another hearing, this time to a packed house. A panel of 11 judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Monday to ...

Led Zeppelin has once again prevailed in a long-running copyright dispute over whether the U.K. rock band infringed Spirit’s “Taurus” to create “Stairway to Heaven.” ...