Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page testified Wednesday that until a few years ago, he'd never heard a song the megastar band is accused of ripping off for the introduction to "Stairway to Heaven." Page claimed he didn't even know he owned the album by the band Spirit that contained the short instrumental tune "Taurus" that has a guitar riff very similar to the intro of the classic 1971 rock ballad. Page told jurors in his defense during a copyright infringement trial in federal court, "Something like that would stick in my mind," adding "It was totally alien to me." A lawyer for the estate of Spirit's late guitarist, Randy Wolfe, also known as Randy California, contends the famous descending-chord progression that begins "Stairway" was lifted from the Spirit tune, which was released a few years earlier.
