Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has testified in a US court that that he had not heard a song until recently that he’s accused of plagiarising when writing Stairway to Heaven.

Jimmy Page acknowledged that he had three Spirit albums in his collection of some 10,000 record albums and CDs. But Jimmy Page said he only discovered he possessed Spirit’s first album, which contained Taurus, a few years ago after his son-in-law told him that comparisons with Stairway to Heaven were cropping up online.

Jimmy Page acknowledged that Led Zeppelin used a riff from another Spirit song in a medley during their first tour in Scandinavia but Jimmy Page insisted he’d heard it on the radio – and never heard Taurus.

In his testimony, Andes explained Spirit played Taurus in 1968 at a Denver show where Led Zeppelin was the opening act, and that in 1970 he and Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant drank beer and played snooker after a Spirit show in Birmingham, England.

US district judge R Gary Klausner ruled in April that evidence presented in hearings made a credible case that Led Zeppelin may have heard Taurus performed before their song was created.

Robert Plant and bandmate John Paul Jones are expected to testify at the trial, though Jones has been dismissed as a defendant in the case.

Led Zeppelin has settled several similar copyright disputes over songs such as Whole Lotta Love and Dazed and Confused, but the judge has barred a lawyer for the late Spirit guitarist from introducing evidence from those cases.

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