I enjoy Led Zeppelins music but if you knew were much of it comes from you might have a different opinion of them.

As a couple people mentioned Spirit??s ??Taurus? written in 1967 has the same exact guitar line as Stairway to Heaven; which was written years later. Now I mention Jake Holmes because his Zeppelin connection is a pretty fucked up story.

In 1967 Jimmy Page, then with The Yardbirds, heard Jake Holmes play a song live off his new album "The Above Ground Sound Of Jake Holmes". Page liked it so much he began to play it live with The Yardbirds, although they never recorded it in the studio. Finally in 1969 he recorded it with Led Zeppelin, WITH NO CREDIT WHATSOEVER given to Holmes. The name of that song ??Dazed and Confused?.


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