Rock legends Jimmy Page and Robert Plant are poised to appear at trial next month in a copyright fight over Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” but they want evidence about alleged past escapades with drugs and alcohol kept outside the courtroom.
Both go to trial on May 10 after a federal judge on Friday denied the band’s motion for summary judgment. On the witness lists for the trial, expected to last three weeks in a downtown Los Angeles federal courtroom, are both Page and Plant. In a declaration, defense lawyer Helene Freeman wrote that Plant, who begins a European tour on July 1, had “cleared his schedule so that he could be present throughout the trial.”
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