When I read the story in the Guardian, I thought I heard a "Oh wow, man!" emanating from legions of aging hippies and Led Zeppelin followers. "Stairway to Heaven" NOT a Page-Plant composition?
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/12/stairway-to-heavens-opening-chords-may-have-been-stolen-judge-says
I always liked the band, and realized that they were more than heavy metal, C-F-G chords struck and over-amplified ad nauseum. The lat Yardbirds LP, "Little Games" shows a pronounced acoustic, mellow side to the band. for the first few appearances, what we know as Led Zeppelin was billed as the New Yardbirds.
If you go back far enough, there was a flap about Page "borrowing" Bert Jansch's arrangment of "Blackwaterside". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_by_Blackwaterside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Gcu0Sv6lk - Jansch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M10dZwdtw4s&nohtml5=False - Page, who does not sing ever.
My guitar expertise does not suffice to comment on the musical part of this, but I know what I hear and what I read sounds plausible.
Certainly this sort of thing went on for centuries, and only now we can track it. But a "thank you" would not have hurt.
Earlier in my life I wanted to be a lawyer. Now I wish I had done so, if only to have gotten a piece of the action from the lawsuits that will come.
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