Look, Angus Young was “inspired” by Chuck Berry. Zepplin was “inspired” by Xerox.

Secondly, hell, you should at least credit a song as “traditional” but slapping your own name on a song that you didn’t write is not really ethical behavior. Yes, there are a million songs with a 1-4-5 progression, another million with a 2-5-1 progression, and nothing has been original since Bach (i’m sure you could argue that Bach isn’t original, either). When you listen to this audio, you hear that they “borrowed” much more than simple chord progressions. Did they turn it into something different and explosive and “Better”? Sure. Zeppelin kicks ass, their only mistake was not properly crediting the writers of these songs. They probably never envisioned being caught for this, and never thought they’d hear from the old and impoverished people they “borrowed” from. Oh well…

Thirdly, people who misuse “they’re”, “there”, and “their” should be drug out into the street and shot.

Jeff Beck writes: “Why do many dummy folks revere LZ?

[1] marketing and management superior to other groups at the time
[2] significant upheaval to the establisment in the Western world
[3] rapid change in merchandising through mass media”

The intro. to “Bron-Y-Aur” bears a striking resemblence to Bert Jansch/John Renbourn’s arrangement of “The Waggoner’s Lad”.

Davy Graham’s 1963 arrangement of “She Moves Thro’ The Fair” featuring his invention of the D-modal tuning DADGAD was later used by Page for “White Summer”. The tuning itself was used on “Kashmir”.

British band “Audience” had their 1969 song “Maiden’s Cry” ripped off for ‘Stairway To Heaven”.

English guitarist Eddie Phillips was using the violin bow in 1966 before Jimmy Page on his guitar in the same manner.
Musicians/peers of the era confirm this to be accurate, and that Page stole that gimmick as well.

Jimmy Page/Led Zep are known among their peers as thieves.
Eric Clapton love him or hate him has always given proper song writing credits,taken the blusemen out on tour with him,produced them etc.
Jimmy Page has DONE NOTHING.
Everyone steals from the blues,no doubt.
Led Zep have ripped off everybody blues-rock.

You cannot call it steal music when using ones old work to get ideas to create you own music, I agree some of the songs were stolen but e.g. take Picasso he had trainees and their work became much influenced by his but they did not steal his work they used it and made their own interpreting of it, and Led Zeppelin used old works and made it their own and also they made it the best. Simply they took a mediocre song and made it perfekt. I would be honoured if the best band in the world took a song i wrote and made it the best ever.

Only a handful of songs were “covered” as you put it. About 85 or so are purely original (list is up the page).

As for the statement “LZ extended an already well-established sound by Yardbirds (long before Page), Cream (1966), Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd (1967)”

The yardbirds and cream were based off the sound of blues musicians, many years before them.

And many people revere LZ because they produced masterpiece albums in which just about every song was a hit. They had a diverse range of music (folk, blues, rock, etc.) and they were embodied the stereotypical rock n’ roll life style.

LZ has been out of business since 1980. LZ music seemed badass to those living during 1969-1976.

LZ extended an already well-established sound by Yardbirds (long before Page), Cream (1966), Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd (1967).

Jimmy Plagiarist stole many songs from others as he jumped on the bandwagon of an already well-established sound.

Maybe Page played much better than his Brit Pop peers between 1966-69, yet LZ became has-beens by 1977.

The LZ sound became dated by ‘77 — dated lyrics, dated riffs and dated sound.

Why do many dummy folks revere LZ?

[1] marketing and management superior to other groups at the time
[2] significant upheaval to the establisment in the Western world
[3] rapid change in merchandising through mass media

So what, they took some lesser known blues songs, and tweaked them and made them more marketable, I do think that it was wrong for them not to give credit where credit was due to the original song writers, but nobody can deny that these guys wrote a lot of great songs that were all their own, and that Page did some great work with producing each and everyone of their albums.

This news is really old, and it did make me lose a little bit of respect for Led Zeppelin when I first found out about this (years ago!) but I will never be able to deny the fact that Jimmy Page’s guitar work had a huge influence on me when I first started playing guitar.

Folk should just forget about this whole thing, I mean, it isn’t going to get any single one of you anywhere by ranting about this is it?

They were and still are the greatest rock group this world will ever see, if you are not a fan then you simply do not know. I would ask that you don t print this on the internet, you are quite entitled to your opinion, but please keep it to yourself, they are extremely loved and respect by fans everywhere. Their recent come back proved that.

If you don t like then or think in any way that they copied their songs then thats your opinion, but I can assure their influences, were very much their own, The influences came from Castles, Legends, Myths, and magic, from times gone by, from their surroundings, many that were the welsh countryside, the hippy ways, and most of all the 1970 s, it had nothing to do with copying other songs.

Thanks you, Led Zeppelin Expert.