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Led Zeppelin face plagiarism claims

Led Zeppelin look set to face legal action over claims that their 1971 song "Stairway To Heaven" is copied a 1968 track by Spirit.

George Harrison guitar sells for over £390,000 at auction

A guitar previously owned and played by George Harrison has sold for £390,653 at auction. The black-and-white 1962 Rickenbacker 425 was bought in Mount Vernon, Illinois in 1963 and was used by Harrison during performances that same year on shows Ready Steady Go! and Thank Your Lucky Stars. It was also played in the studio during the sessions which resulted in the recordings of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "This Boy" in October 1963.

This month in Uncut

Paul Weller, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath and Dolly Parton all feature in the new issue of Uncut, dated July 2014 and out now.

Bob Dylan “was a saboteur if things were going too well in the studio”

Uncut tells the story of Bob Dylan’s controversial ‘lost decade’, the 1980s, with help from a host of his collaborators, in the new issue, out on Friday (May 23).
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