# Cultural Heresy: Dylan and Led Zeppelin are "song theives"?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cultural-heresy-dylan-and-led-zeppelin-are-song-theives/443713
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 2, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cultural-heresy-dylan-and-led-zeppelin-are-song-theives/443713 "2008-04-02T20:20:05Z")
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### Author: ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cultural-heresy-dylan-and-led-zeppelin-are-song-theives/443713/21 "2008-04-02T23:45:03Z")

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[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew]  
Simon & Garfunkel’s “Kathy’s Song” and Roy Harper’s “Naked Flame” come to mind.  
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And Geoff Bartley & John Gorka’s “Cut by Wire”. (Mary Black does a terrific version of that.) I’ll have to look up the Roy Harper song.

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### Author: ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cultural-heresy-dylan-and-led-zeppelin-are-song-theives/443713/22 "2008-04-03T01:16:43Z")

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There’s always Page’s shameless ripoff of Bert Jansch’s version of Blackwaterside - “Black Mountain Side”.

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