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Originally Posted by djsFlames
What about the entire vocal parts? Lyrics? The chorus and bridge at the end? None of that could have said to have been borrowed.
There is a progression of 5 chords that Stairway follows in it's intro/verses, except the Stairway version has a couple augmented ones whereas spirit doesn't, and it diverges from there. That progression has been used many times elsewhere as it's quite simple. The way the chords are picked are what make them sound similar, but regardless, 90% of Stairway is otherwise original content.
While perhaps the intro was could have been inspired by it, the two works don't mirror each other enough for Wolfe to be claiming that he deserves credit. Some iteration of that intro I guarantee has been used in classical songs probably hundreds of years prior. So that's baloney.
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The "hook" is a pretty big part of a song. Zeppelin loves to rip off cool sounding hooks and then build around them. That is the foundation for most of the lawsuits against them. For Stairway to Heavean the hook is definitely the intro.