OFF: Willie Dixon Led Zeppelin lawsuit

[Stuart A Hamilton]

Yes he did as did many others, and all rereleases have the full credits.
For example "Whole Lotta Love" is now a Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham/Dixon
credit, "Baby Come On Home" has a Page/Plant/Bert Berns credit and
"Travelling Riverside Blues" has a Page/Plant/Robert Johnson credit.

Just a shame Mr Dixon didn't get the money when he was alive.

Z
NP Ted Nugent - Free For All

Paul Mather wrote:

> I was just listening to the Willie Dixon Chess Box Set this evening,
> and, listening to CD 2, it made me wonder if Willie Dixon ever won his
> lawsuit against Led Zeppelin for their "Whole Lotta Love" single?  (It
> bears *more* than a passing resemblance to the song he wrote for Muddy
> Waters, called "You Need Love.")
>
> Actually, Zeppelin appear to have covered quite a few of Dixon's songs:
> "You Shook Me," "Bring It On Home" (on-topic HW reference:), and "I
> Can't Quit You Baby."  (I notice they don't credit him on "Bring It On
> Home," at least not on the copy of _Led Zeppelin II_ I have to hand.
> Tsk, tsk, shame on them...)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> ob2CD: Willie Dixon, _The Chess Box_
>
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
> "I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time"
>         --- James Marshall Hendrix

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