LED ZEPPELIN vs SPIRIT Lawsuit | Stairway To Heaven Comparison

In this episode we compare and analyze the music of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" to the Spirit song "Taurus".

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[Producelikeapro]

This is the best video I’ve ever seen about this! It’s also better than any article I’ve read! Bravo Rick!!

[fredfox]

Rick. When Zeppelin's lawyers ask if they can use this episode to definitively win their case in 6:46 minutes, you should tell them only if you can use Zepp's music in your teaching videos. I'm learning a lot from you. Thanks!

[johnstrange]

“There’s a lawyer who knows all that matters is gold, and he’s trying an unfair case to get some…”

[coldbrew]

This guy would be an incredible music copyright defense lawyer. And I love the mash ups. He made Zepplin’s case in a little less than seven minutes!

[yummyyum]

The final bars of the coda for the 1st movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony has the same kind of chromatic riff repeating over and over as an ostinato. That was 1824. Last I heard Beethoven has decided to leave Jimmy Page alone.

[jasonbone]

Zep lawyer needs you in his corner! Great video as always.

[AdamNeely]

There's a (maybe apocryphal) story about how Jimmy Page wrote the riff to Stairway to Heaven after he took a jazz lesson with John McLaughlin where McLaughlin taught him My Funny Valentine. Rogers and Hart should be suing, not Spirit!

[danieltrue]

It really bothers me that there is someone that is suing on behalf of a guy who’s been dead for 21 years. If that isn’t a money grab, I don’t know what is.

[migueldecarvalho]

This video has changed my mind.
I am now a little less ignorant then I was 10 minutes ago.
Thanks, Rick!

[haydenfreeman]

“Let’s listen to stairway to heaven” good idea see you in 8 minutes

[MrTechselect]

This! Absolutely this! Which is why the writer of Spirit, Randy California, didn't think there was any plagiarism. Its just that the people who run his estate are greedy.

[Russocass]

Here is a list of Beatles' songs I can recall that use the line cliché or little variations of it in some part :

- Michelle
- For no one
- While my guitar gently weeps
- Lucy in the sky with diamonds
- A day in the life
- Hello Goodbye
- Something
- Strawberry fields forever
- Dear Prudence
- Magical mistery tour
- Hey Jude
- Fixing a Hole

[alecmiddleton]

Next time you're trying a guitar in a music store which bans the playing of Stairway To Heaven, tell them you're playing Taurus :-)

[chrispinelli]

It's a descending chromatic line, also known as a lament in Baroque music, made popular by Henry Purcell, he should get the credit.

[katherinemitchell]

Finally someone explained this to a lay person like me in a way that I can totally understand. Awesome job!!!!

[Robotronpsn]

Why wasn't Rick in that courtroom?!

Also, everything is from Bach.

[beyondz]

The 1 good thing that came of this lawsuit was introducing Spirit and Randy California to music fans who may have never heard them before. Randy was an incredible guitarist. Check out his cover of Hey Joe.

[TheBonesReaperShow]

Do you need a musical lawyer?
Call rick beato!

[pedrodeeg]

its only because stairway is really successful. if stairway was a failure they wouldn't care

[tommycollins]

You are so right, Rick. This lawsuit is so bogus and ridiculous. These chord progressions are incredibly common. You can steel any chord progression and you don't have to sue somebody for it. Great video!!