Monty Python member Eric Idle shared an insight into the production of the troupes 1975 film 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail', Rolling Stone reports. According to his tweet, British rock stars were essential in financing it - Led Zeppelin contributed £31,500, Pink Floyd Music ponied up £21,000, and Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson put in £6,300 of his own money. Monty Python's other movie 'Life of Brian' came out thanks to a musician as well - The Beatles legend George Harrison mortgaged his house and put that money in the movie.

The US supreme court has declined to hear the case brought against Led Zeppelin by the estate of Randy Wolfe, late frontman of US band Spirit, in a long-standing copyright battle over 'Stairway to Heaven'. It was alleged that Led Zeppelin took the opening notes to 'Stairway to Heaven' from Spirit’s song 'Taurus'. Following a six-day trial in 2016, Led Zeppelin were cleared of plagiarism. That verdict was overturned in 2018. The case returned, but in March this year a US appeals court reinstated the original 2016 ruling. The only remaining recourse for Wolfe’s trustee team was the US supreme court, whose rejection of the case means it has finally ended, CNN reports.

Led Zeppelin have triumphed in a long-running copyright dispute after a US appeals court ruled they did not steal the opening riff in 'Stairway To Heaven'. The Zeps were accused in 2014 of ripping off a song called 'Taurus' by the US band Spirit, written in 1968, three years before 'Stairway To Heaven' was written. Now, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has upheld a 2016 trial verdict that found Led Zeppelin did not copy it.

The U.S. Department of Justice has taken Led Zeppelin’s side in the long-running copyright dispute that pits the writers of the group’s anthem 'Stairway to Heaven' against the publishers of the earlier song 'Taurus' by Spirit. The DOJ filed an amicus brief late Thursday supporting Zeppelin, stating, amongst other things, that the relevant portion of […]

123 artists have submitted a brief fo San Francisco court in the closely watched copyright case over the opening guitar riff of Led Zeppelin's ‘Stairway To Heaven’. The case was brought to court by a descendant of Randy Craig Wolfe, former band member and songwriter of Spirit, whose song 'Taurus' Led Zeppelin have allegedly ripped […]

Yesterday it was sexually inappropriate, today it's "a culturally significant image", which it really is. A good move, Facebook! Social media also revealed that it would now consider the newsworthiness or importance of the subject matter in the future, when deciding whether to allow posts containing similar images, Ultimate Classic Rock reports.

Facebook has started banning artwork from Led Zeppelin's classic album 'Houses of the Holy', and really, a classic design. The cover was created by Hipgnosis designer Aubrey Powell, the photo was originally captured among the basalt columns of Northern Ireland's Giant's Causeway. In the surreal image, a group of naked figures (who were portrayed by […]

“The time was right for us to tell our own story for the first time in our own words” said John Paul Jones about the Led Zeppelin documentary, the first official one. The film is directed by British film-maker Bernard MacMahon, director of 'American Epic', a four-part documentary exploring roots music across the US. Led […]

A nice read by Consequence of Sound: There was one show in particular that single-handedly foreshadowed how monumental Zeppelin would become: January 26th, 1969 — the fourth and final show at Boston Tea Party. It was the night where Zeppelin reportedly played for over four hours with only one album’s worth of material, eventually resorting to […]

A very nice article on Stereogum in their segment Breaks With Tradition, where they broke into segments Led Zeppelin's 'When The Levee Breaks', with John Bonham's drumming being the focal point. BWT examines a certain song that’s been frequently sampled and how that song has been used through the years.