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The class and grandeur. it difficult to talk in rock terms about a band that did not use tapes or backing tracks. nothing like that. all that music came out of eddies hands. i hadnt heard a player like that since hendrix. for me, its heartbreaking today because i remember young, innocent eddie van halen who must have been 20 years old. i took the band into the studio and we recorded 15 songs that i had produced. but it aint about me, i want to take a moment to tell you that it is very seldom you...

Music plays. stairway to heaven, by rock legends led zeppelin. this is jimmy page, who created the band, speaking to the bbc in 2014 about the song. the idea of stairway was to have a piece of music, a composition, whereby it would just keep unfolding into more layers. his lawyers have been in american courts for six years, arguing he was not a fraud. the claim was that stairway to heaven ripped off another song, taurus, by a band called spirit. music plays. the claim was logged by the estate of...

Paul hawkins reports. its opening guitar riff is iconic. music plays stairway to heaven, by rock legends led zeppelin. this is jimmy page, who created the band, speaking to the bbc in 2014 about the song. the idea of stairway was to have a piece of music, a composition, whereby it would just keep unfolding into more layers. his lawyers have been in american courts for six years, arguing he was not a fraud. the claim was that stairway to heaven ripped off another song, taurus, by a band called sp...

September. there were nearly 11,000 registered deaths in the uk in that week. according to our head of statistics here at the bbc that is within the range of deaths expected at this time of year. its about one and a half percent above the five year average. 234 of those deaths involved covid—19, up by 76 on the previous week. we will have more on that with robert, our head of statistics after 10am. one of the greatest rock bands of all time — led zeppelin — have won a long—running legal ...

The audience is really the most powerful piece of this because i feel they trust me and they celebrate with me. the celebration honours my children and its exciting for me. the activity of getting it ready kind of holds me together. somewhere, there is a strength that i didnt know i had. were connected by the music because music has its own language. people make the world go round, if you want, but we need each other. its a moment where we can find pea, you know, its a moment where we can find p...

The dream of being an actress. id always wanted to have my own theatre. to have my own theatre, write the plays, direct the plays. this apartment worked out to be ideal. i live in harlem, new york. i have music and theatre every sunday. jazz, 3:30. my door is not locked and the public is invited in. people come from all sorts of places. they come as if they have known me forever and we become instant family. theres a connection there. i moved to this apartment 36 years ago. this building was fil...

Underfoot this morning. plenty of showery outbreaks of rain last night. lots of cloud this morning. perhaps a few showers, at times, and there will be more showers blowing through on a brisk westerly wind through the day, but some bright and sunny spells in between. quite a breezy day. top temperatures this time of 16 celsius. through this evening and overnight, it should turn dry, or mostly dry. maybe a few stray showers around at first. lows of 9—10 celsius into the start of the day tomorrow...

Stairway to heaven, by rock legends, led zeppelin. this is jimmy page, who created the band, speaking to the bbc, in 2014, about the song. the idea of stairway was to have a piece of music, a composition, whereby it would just keep on folding into more layers. his lawyers have been in american courts for six years, arguing he was not a fraud. the claim was that stairway to heaven ripped off another song, taurus, by a band called spirit. taurus plays. the claim was logged by the estate of the ban...

Rather wet conditions on thursday and friday. finally, we dont really do birthday greetings during the news, but sometimes we make an exception, like this today, because bbc radio london is 50—years—old. it all started back on 6th october, 1970 in a small studio in hanover square. over the years, its been the launch pad for djs, including chris evans, as well as a home from home for tony blackburn, gary crowley, robert elms and vanessa feltz. vanessa is marking 50 years of the station on bbc...

Called spirit. the claim was logged by the estate of the bands late front man, randy wolfe. they argued they became familiar with the song after the two bands played together in1970, a year the two bands played together in 1970, a year before stairway to heaven was released. both jimmy pageant lead singer robert plant argued they had never heard of the song until ten yea rs never heard of the song until ten years ago. the jury did not believe them instead they believed evidence from musicologist...