Stairway to Heaven. How we wrote it. By Jimmy Page

[roydo]

What a treat.

In his own words.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29550639

 

[tommye]

Disappointed Roydo.


No video?

 

[tommye]

 

[Coach]

 

[roydo]

Disappointed Roydo.


No video?

Link not work? It is him describing how he/they wrote it.

 

[Seamus Colemole]

For those who couldn't see the video, i'll transcribe what he said :

"Well basically, i ripped off the chords from someone else, then wanked off my guitar a bit for some solos whilst Robert Plant strangled next doors cat whilst recording the vocals".

 

[ilikecheese]

Thought that was dead interesting @roydo...thanks for posting.

 

[roydo]

Yeah, but what he did was like taking a few planks of wood and building St Pauls Cathedral from them. A musical magpie, no doubt about it, but pretty darn good at it.

 

[Tubey]

That's a long-winded way of saying "I stole it from Taurus and tacked on a rock bit at the end."

 

[Coach]

Yeah, but what he did was like taking a few planks of wood and building St Pauls Cathedral from them. A musical magpie, no doubt about it, but pretty darn good at it.

I suppose the plagiarism lawsuit will determine that....

https://www.scribd.com/doc/227721148/Stairway

 

[roydo]

I suppose the plagiarism lawsuit will determine that....

https://www.scribd.com/doc/227721148/Stairway

Wouldnt disagree with a word of that. Didnt realise the Jake Holmes, (Dazed & Confused) one had been settled though. In my view, that was by the worst example if I am honest. Insofar that most were ripped off blues standards, and the whole blues thing was all about borrowing bits and pieces of songs. You could probably trace every blues riff back to like 2 guitarists about 100 years ago!

But Dazed was a blatant steal, from a pretty unknown artist.

On Stairway, the thing no one has ever picked up on, is the solo was nicked from Hendrix, Crosstown Traffic I think.

*heads to youtube*

 

[Tubey]

Zeppelin nicked all sorts - a track from Muddy Waters almost wholesale, for example.

 

[roydo]

Zeppelin nicked all sorts - a track from Muddy Waters almost wholesale, for example.

Yep, but the resulting production of the rip offs were sensational, bearing in mind the technology available then. But it is a stain on their reputation for sure. Not the rip offs, (everyone did that), but the refusal to acknowledge them until court action.