Thursday 1 July 2010

Dazed and Confused? Certainly!

Hat tip to Mike Tobin for this: According to Music Week, American folk singer Jake Holmes (it seems one can be excused for not having heard of him) is suing a rather better-known act called Led Zeppelin for copyright infringement. He claims that Jimmy Page took his (Holmes's) song, Dazed and Confused. The allegation has been around for long enough, but only now - and with no prospect of recovering more than three years back-royalties - is he taking action ... Even so, that might be worth a few bob, and going forward there should be a few more in it for him too.

[Whiter] Shades of ...

Postscript:  Mike Tatroe (who must be another Facebook Rhubarb Thrasher) added that one of the commenters on the NY Times version of this article (http://nyti.ms/9Q5vAr) claims to have known Jake Holmes and previously asked him why he'd never sued Page. At the time, Holmes "...said that Page had so reconstructed the song that he'd made it into something altogether different so he never bothered." You be the judge ...



1 comment:

Nick Holmes said...

Too right Zep ripped this off. Jake Holmes (no relation) should have been a legend!

 

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