Get the latest gossip

Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page Hit With New Lawsuit Over Decades-Old ‘Dazed and Confused’ Dispute

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page is facing a new lawsuit over the credits to “Dazed and Confused" from a songwriter who already sued him once before.

More than a decade after Led Zeppelin ‘s Jimmy Page settled a lawsuit over the disputed songwriting credits to “Dazed and Confused,” he’s facing a new case accusing him of flouting that earlier agreement. Jake Holmes has claimed for years that he actually wrote “Dazed and Confused” and that Page simply performed it without credit or payment — first as a member of The Yardbirds, and then more famously by re-working it into a signature song for Led Zeppelin. But in a new case filed Monday (May 5) in Los Angeles federal court, Holmes says Page is once again violating copyright law by failing to credit or pay him — on both newly-released recordings of Yardbirds performances of the song and in the recent documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin.

Get the Android app