Listen: is Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven a 'rip-off'?

Judge the similarities between Stairway to Heaven and the song it is allegedly based on for yourself

Led Zeppelin in 1973
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Led Zeppelin have been accused of stealing a chord progression for the opening of their most successful song, Stairway to Heaven.

Lawyers for late guitarist Randy California are trying to block the re-release of Stairway to Heaven and allege that the similarities between the 1971 track and an instrumental called Taurus by California's band, Spirit, amount to copyright infringement.

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