{"id":5585,"date":"2014-05-20T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2014-05-28T23:28:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T06:28:55","slug":"say-it-isnt-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/20\/say-it-isnt-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Say It Isn&#8217;t So&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2014\/05\/led-zeppelin-faces-legal-matters-over-stairway-int.html?utm_source=PMNL&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=140520\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from PASTE Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Plagiarism Controversy Behind Led Zeppelin&#8217;s &#8220;Stairway&#8221; Resurfaces<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a class=\"ovr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/writers?name=shawn+christ\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn Christ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xd8AVbwB_6E\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For 43 years, \u201cStairway to Heaven\u201d has been the most popular song in the Led Zeppelin catalog, capturing listeners from Jimmy Pages\u2019 first glimmering notes to Robert Plant\u2019s fading vocals.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #00c2e8;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-05-15\/led-zeppelins-stairway-to-heaven-vs-dot-spirits-taurus-a-reckoning\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Businessweek reported last week<\/a>\u00a0that legal action has been taken to block the release of the band\u2019s\u00a0<i>Led Zeppelin IV<\/i>\u00a0reissue because of a plagiarism conflict with the song\u2019s famous intro, which can be heard at any time by stepping into a Guitar Center of your choice nationwide. Attorney Francis Alexander Molofiy is representing deceased guitarist Randy California, who played with the band\u00a0<a style=\"color: #00c2e8;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spirit_(band\" target=\"_blank\">Spirit<\/a>) and claimed before his death in 1997 that the beginning of \u201cStairway to Heaven\u201d was lifted from his band\u2019s 1968 song \u201cTaurus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The similarities in the songs become evident right around the 1:38 mark in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2014\/05\/led-zeppelin-faces-legal-matters-over-stairway-int.html?utm_source=PMNL&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=140520\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at PasteMagazine.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from PASTE Magazine Plagiarism Controversy Behind Led Zeppelin&#8217;s &#8220;Stairway&#8221; Resurfaces By\u00a0Shawn Christ For 43 years, \u201cStairway to Heaven\u201d has been the most popular song in the Led Zeppelin catalog, capturing listeners from Jimmy Pages\u2019 first glimmering notes to Robert Plant\u2019s fading vocals. However,\u00a0Bloomberg Businessweek reported last week\u00a0that legal action has been taken to block the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}