A legal saga around a tube: the guitarist of Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page, is again accused in California about the copyright of “Dazed and Confused”, one of the flagship titles of the British rock group in the 1970s.
The epic surge of nervous bass on a throbbing battery has remained one of the emblematic markers of the group’s sound, a rock tinged with blues. But the tube is not at its first legal battle.
He was originally the work of singer Folk Jake Holmes, who recorded him in 1967, said the latter in the complaint he filed on Monday in Los Angeles.
According to him, Jimmy Page and the Warner Chappell record company violated a 2011 agreement about this song, accusing them of being included in the recent documentary “Becoming Led Zeppelin”, without authorization, payment or reference to the original author.
“Dazed and Confused” appears on the first eponymous album of the group released in 1969. But it is a previous version which is the subject of the quarrel, that interpreted by Jimmy Page then in his previous Yardbirds group.
The details of the 2011 agreement are not known, but Jake Holmes demands in his last complaint the payment of $ 150,000 for each offense linked to the use of “Dazed and Confused” Yardbirds version.
-This is not the first time that a Zeppelin LED tube has been at the heart of a controversy.
“Stairway to Heaven” was the subject of a legal battle between 2014 and 2018 when the Californian group Spirit had accused Led Zeppelin of having stolen the famous Riff of opening of the title.
Justice had finally decided in favor of the British group.
Posted on May 7 at 12:20 a.m., AFP
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