Led Zeppelin ask judge to stop 'Stairway To Heaven' plagiarism trial

Edit NME 21 Jun 2016
Led Zeppelin are asking the judge in their 'Stairway To Heaven' plagiarism trial to halt proceedings. The band have been accused of copying a 1968 song called 'Taurus' by the band Spirit ... The two bands toured together in 1968 and 1969 ... Anderson, said in a statement ... District Judge R ... ....

Riff rift over Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway' returns to court

Edit Springfield News-Sun 21 Jun 2016
Here are some things to know about the case.. RIFF RIFT ... A riff in the 1968 "Taurus" sounds like the intro to the 1971 rock anthem ... Surviving band members claim they played the song at a December 1968 show in Denver, where Led Zeppelin made its U.S ... Page, 72, a masterful guitarist who founded Led Zeppelin when The Yardbirds broke up in 1968, demonstrated a skill for deflecting questions and injecting humor in his testimony ... RIPOFF REMIX ... ....

Led Zeppelin lawyers ask judge to toss ‘Stairway’ case

Edit The Seattle Times 21 Jun 2016
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Led Zeppelin’s lawyers have asked a judge to throw out a case accusing the band’s songwriters of ripping off a riff for “Stairway to Heaven.” Attorney Peter Anderson said Monday the estate of Randy Wolfe failed to prove over four days of trial that the copyright to his 1968 song “Taurus” […]> ... ....

Led Zeppelin lawyers ask judge to toss 'Stairway' case

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 21 Jun 2016
... four days of trial that the copyright to his 1968 song "Taurus" was violated....

Baseball by the numbers: Rose, Ichiro close in game of WAR

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 21 Jun 2016
With 20 more hits, the Marlins’ Ichiro Suzuki will become the second player in major-league history to compile 3,000 from age 27 through the end of his career. The first was Pete Rose, who had 3,357 hits starting with his age 27 season of 1968 ... Rose had 899 hits before age 27 for a career total of 4,256 ... Full career ... Rose’s seven seasons starting in 1968 include his 8.2 bWAR peak in 1973, along with 6.6 in 1969 and 6.1 in 1972 ... ....

Led Zeppelin lawyers want 'Stairway to Heaven' suit thrown out

Edit WPTV 21 Jun 2016
Attorney Peter Anderson said Monday the estate of Randy Wolfe failed to prove over four days of trial that the copyright to his 1968 song "Taurus" was violated ... ....

New old adda: Indian Coffee House opens another outlet in Chandigarh

Edit Indian Express 21 Jun 2016
86-yr-old YP Kumar, one of the oldest costumer of ICH with Chandigarh Mayor Arun Sood Monday. There was a sense of anticipation and excitement as people patiently waited for the legendary Indian Coffee House (ICH) to open shop in Sector 36-D market Monday morning ... And its patrons were there to celebrate the new beginning ... “I first visited ICH in 1968 and until now I have never felt uncomfortable,” quipped 64-year-old Sharad Sharma ... ....

How illegal guns find their way onto British streets despite tough laws

Edit Business Insider 21 Jun 2016
How it is possible to get hold of weapons in Britain despite tough laws that restrict their ownership and use? This strict firearm legislation, enacted chiefly through the Firearms Act 1968 and amendments following the 1987 Hungerford mass shooting and 1996 Dunblane mass shoting, has reduced the number of purpose-made firearms in circulation ... But what other alternative sources are criminals accessing in order to bypass strict laws? ... ....

The Electric Surge of Miles Davis

Edit The Atlantic 21 Jun 2016
Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle’s recent, feverishly imagined treatment of the lost years of Miles Davis, is a movie full of beautiful trumpet sounds. bending blue notes, puffs of self-ironizing loneliness, jubilant noise runs, and savagely abstract displacements of air ... It’s 1979, and Miles has been in a bad way for a while ... We are currently fascinated—and Cheadle’s film is part of this—by Miles’s electric period, 1968 to 1975 ... ....

The Kennedy Center announces the recipients of the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts (KCICA) Gold Medal in the Arts (John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jun 2016
(Source. John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) Press Release. Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.. June 20, 2016 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces the. 2016 Recipients of Gold Medal in the Arts ... -more- ... Recorded over three days with legendary jazz musicians, Astral Weeks (1968) is a still singular album combining street poetry, jazz improvisation, Celtic invocation, and Afro-Celtic Blues wailing ... John F....

FDA Reform: A Prescription for More and Better Drugs and Medical Devices (The Heritage Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jun 2016
(Source. The Heritage Foundation). June 20, 2016 . Legal Memorandum on Legal Issues. By Alden Abbott. Properly tailored and limited regulation of biopharmaceutical products and medical devices helps to promote public safety, but the U.S ... Key Points U.S ... In recent decades, U.S ... Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ... The Animal Drug Amendments Act of 1968 mandated pre-market approval of new drugs and food additives for animals ... v. U.S ... -Alden F....

How American Politics Went Insane

Edit The Atlantic 21 Jun 2016
It’s 2020, four years from now. The campaign is under way to succeed the president, who is retiring after a single wretched term ... I could continue, but you get the gist ... Immunity ... W ... (McGovern actually co-chaired a Democratic Party commission that rewrote the nominating rules after 1968, opening the way for his own campaign.) Neither of them, either as senator or candidate, wanted to or did disrupt the ordinary workings of government ... ....

Juan Gonzalez to the Bernie or Bust Movement: Don’t Repeat the Mistakes of 1968 that ...

Edit Democracy Now 20 Jun 2016
Juan looked back to 1968 to examine the role activists took in that pivotal election year that saw the election of Richard Nixon ... The tactic was wrong." ....
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