battle is finally over after the US Supreme Court declined to hear the dispute yesterday (5th October).
Lodged by journalist Michael Skidmore, the estate of late guitarist Randy Wolfe from US band Spirit sued Led Zeppelin in 2014 claiming that ‘Stairway To Heaven’ ripped off the introduction from Spirit’s 1968 track ‘Taurus’.
Led Zeppelin were cleared of plagiarism following a six-day trial in Los Angeles in June 2016; however, Randy Wolfe’s estate launched an appeal in 2018.
The original verdict was upheld by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in March of this year, and yesterday (5th October), the US Supreme Court refused to hear the case, bringing Led Zeppelin’s six-year battle to a categorical end.
