Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant has admitted that the legal challenge over their classic track ‘Stairway To Heaven’ was “unpleasant” and “unfortunate”.Michael Skidmore, a trustee for the estate of Spirit guitarist Randy California, first filed a lawsuit against the British band in 2014 over the track.He claimed that their 1971 hit had violated the copyright of Spirit’s 1968 song ‘Taurus’.Led Zeppelin eventually won three legal attempts over the case with the most recent one (in October 2020) resulting in the US Supreme Court declining to hear the case.The decision of the US Supreme Court upheld a March ruling by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
