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Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page testified in court on Wednesday (June 15) stating that he didn’t steal the riff for his band’s classic hit “Stairway To Heaven.”
Page claimed that he hadn’t heard Spirit’s song until a few years ago. “Something like that would stick in my mind. It was totally alien to me,” Page said according to the Associated Press.
According to the Chicago Tribune, a lawyer for the estate of Spirit’s late guitarist, Randy Wolfe, also known as Randy California, contends the famous descending-chord progression that begins “Stairway” was lifted from the Spirit tune, which was released a few years earlier.