“It sounded like I was guessing,” Jones said on the stand after the recording was played for him. On Friday, June 17, Jones said his recollection had been incorrect, echoing Jimmy Page’s own testimony from days before. ” That story has been repeated in the media throughout the decades, leading fans to believe “Stairway to Heaven” was already underway when Led Zeppelin convened at Headley Grange. In that 1972 interview, Jones was recorded saying, “We were all in the country at Headley Grange when came back from the Welsh mountains with a guitar intro, verse and maybe more. On Monday, Jones testified that he misspoke years ago in a BBC interview when he recalled how “Stairway to Heaven” came about. The testimony of bassist John Paul Jones is another. Plant’s recollections are one piece of the puzzle about the song’s origins. With that, he said, the rest of the lyrics started “rolling pretty fast.” “When she gets there she knows if the stores are all closed, with a word she can get what she came for.” “There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold and she’s buying a stairway to heaven,” Plant replied, alternately talking and singing the lyrics. I said that's when it's callin' me back home.Lead defense attorney Peter Anderson asked him if he recalled the couplet. We gonna go walkin' through the park every day.īut now. Ooh, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, ooh, don't you hear it callin' me?Īnd I know that one day, baby, it's gonna really grow, yes it is. I know, I know, I know I never, never, never, never, never gonna leave you, babe I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do? Ooooh Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you I can hear it callin' me the way it used to do, Leave you when the summer comes a-rollin' I said baby, you know I'm gonna leave you. Gary Klausner turned down the proposed extension with a red "DENIED" stamp across the top - calling to mind this backhanded homage to Stairway to Heaven from the film Wayne's World. But Led Zeppelin also says they plan to file a motion for summary judgment to end the case. The court has scheduled a settlement conference next month for the opposing parties to try to resolve the dispute. The trustee who handles his royalties sued in May 2014, claiming "falsification of rock 'n' roll history." Spirit guitarist Randy California, who composed Taurus, died in 1997. The musicians deny the infringement allegations and say Plant and Page alone wrote the song. The case stems from what, to some ears, is a similarity between Stairway and Taurus, an instrumental piece released on Spirits debut album in 1968. Surviving Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and Robert Plant objected to a proposed postponement to July, which would have conflicted with Plant's European summer tour. By one estimate, the 1971 song has made more than half a billion dollars. BLOOMBERG - The judge presiding over a lawsuit challenging the authenticity of Led Zeppelin's signature song Stairway to Heaven rejected a bid to delay the case, setting the stage for a May trial - if it doesn't get settled or dismissed before then.Ī lawyer who contends that the British band stole portions of an obscure composition by the band Spirit for use in the ballad had asked the Los Angeles court to grant extra time, in part to gather more information about Stairway's earnings.
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