Agora é oficial! Segundo tribunal do jurí federal estadunidense o Led Zeppelin não roubou a introdução de seu maior clássico “Stairway to Heaven” da obscura banda Spirit que chegou a tocar com os ingleses em alguns shows e registrou em álbum a canção “Taurus” em 1968.
Led Zeppelin – Stairway to HeavenEm vida os autores da canção nunca reclamaram quaisquer direitos, mas o espólio de Randy California resolveu acionar a justiça mesmo que tardiamente.
Page e Plant, que escreveram as letras de ‘Stairway to Heaven’, disseram que a criação foi 100% original, e não demonstraram grande entusiasmos com o término do julgamento, após várias horas de testemunhos, que incluíram músicos dos dois lados interpretando ao vivo ambas canções. Estranhamente os jurados não escutaram em corte as gravações originais.
Na modesta opinião do blog, a acusação de plágio não procede, existem similaridades mas também várias diferenças entre as composições, entretanto o Led Zeppelin já teve em outras canções, decisões que revisaram direitos autorais após algumas “inspirações” como em “Whole Lotta Love“, “The Lemon Song“ e “Dazed and Confused“.
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Letras completas de Stairway to Heaven (Plant/Page)
There’s a lady who’s sure
All that glitters is gold
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Ooh ooh ooh ooh and she’s buying a stairway to heaven
There’s a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
‘Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook
There’s a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiving
Ooh, it makes me wonder
Ooh, it makes me wonder
There’s a feeling I get
When I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who standing looking
Ooh, it makes me wonder
Ooh, it really makes me wonder
And it’s whispered that soon, If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter
If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow
Don’t be alarmed now
It’s just a spring clean for the May queen
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There’s still time to change the road you’re on
And it makes me wonder
Your head is humming and it won’t go
In case you don’t know
The piper’s calling you to join him
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
And she’s buying the stairway to heaven