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  • Led Zeppelin sued for alleged plagiarism of Dazed and Confused (Jake Holmes claims authorship)

    07/01/2010 12:00:52 PM PDT · by a fool in paradise · 54 replies
    Guardian UK ^ | Wednesday 30 June 2010 12.11 BST | Sean Michaels
    ...In documents filed on Monday, Holmes cited a 1967 copyright registration for Dazed and Confused, renewed in 1995. That song... was released in 1967 on the San Francisco-born musician's debut album. ...the path that leads from Holmes to Page is very well known. As documented by Perfect Sound Forever magazine, Holmes opened for Page's then-band, the Yardbirds, at a Greenwich Village gig in August 1967. "That was the infamous moment of my life when Dazed and Confused fell into the loving arms and hands of Jimmy Page," Holmes recalled in an interview with Will Shade. Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty described...