Zepp’s Heaven case in a replay
AN appeal has been launched over the verdict in the Led Zeppelin plagiarism case.
Singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page were cleared earlier this year of copying the opening chords of Stairway To Heaven.
A jury in Los Angeles found they did not lift the introduction from a track called Taurus, written by a US band Spirit.
After the verdict, Page and Plant said the origins of Stairway To Heaven had been put “to rest”.
But Michael Skidmore, who filed the original lawsuit, has now appealed.
Mr Skidmore is the trustee of Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe, who drowned in 1997. Lawyers for Mr Wolfe’s trust asked for him to be given a third credit for the rock classic.
The LA court heard Page and Plant had pocketed £40million from Stairway To Heaven and other Led Zeppelin songs over the past five years.
Mr Skidmore’s lawyer Francis Malofiy said then that justice had not been served and added: “There are obviously issues that can be appealed.”