Randy Wolfe: Last News

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear the big ‘Stairway To Heaven’ copyright case, meaning that the most recent ruling in the Ninth Circuit appeals court – in Led Zeppelin’s favour – stands.It was the estate of the late Randy Wolfe, aka Randy California, who sued Led Zeppelin in 2014 claiming that the band’s 1971 track ‘Stairway To Heaven’ ripped off an earlier song called ‘Taurus’, which Wolfe had written for his band Spirit.The case went before a jury in 2016 who ruled that, while it may be true that Led Zep members had heard ‘Taurus’ before writing ‘Stairway’, the two songs were not – in fact – similar enough to constitute copyright infringement.The Wolfe estate then took the matter to the Ninth Circuit appeals court criticising

Led Zeppelin scored a win in the copyright infringement battle over the rock band's "Stairway to Heaven" song, according to reports. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld on Monday a jury's verdict that Zeppelin did not rip the instrumental intro from Spirit's hit "Taurus." The legal battle began back in 2014, when Michael Skidmore, an heir for Spirit frontman Randy Wolfe, sued the British rockers for infringement.

Led Zeppelin on Monday persuaded a U.S. appeals court to reinstate a jury verdict that it did not steal the opening guitar riff for “Stairway to Heaven” from an obscure song written four years earlier.