The English band fronted by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page will forever be remembered as one of rock ’n’ roll’s most influential and early supergroups on par with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. “Stairway to Heaven,” with its plaintive opening riff, remains the band’s signature song decades after its 1971 release. 

The opening to that song was key to a plagiarism case brought on behalf of Randy Wolfe, a guitarist for the band Spirit, and who died in 1997 at age 45. According to NPR, the opening to “Stairway to Heaven” sounds nearly identical to that of Spirit’s “Taurus,” released three years earlier in 1968. A jury cleared Led Zeppelin in June 2016. 

In this picture, Jimmy Page is taking photos of Bill Robles’ courtroom sketches.