Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page Sued by ‘Dazed and Confused’ Songwriter

Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page isn’t showing a songwriter a whole lotta love over one of the band’s classic hits, and now he’s dragging the guitarist into federal court.

A guy named Jake Holmes filed the suit against James Patrick Page — yeah, that’s his full name — over “Dazed and Confused” … the song Zeppelin dropped back in ’69. In the docs, Holmes says it’s already been legally established that he is the copyright holder on the track — he and Page reached a settlement in 2011.

Holmes says he noticed something awry with the new IMAX documentary, “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” which was released earlier this year — the film credits say Page wrote ‘Dazed’ and Holmes only “inspired” it, but Holmes says that’s patently false.

Little backstory on the song … the Yardbirds released the first version of ‘Dazed’ in 1968, when Jimmy was a member of the group, and he recorded a new version of it with Zeppelin … which only credited Page as the writer.

That prompted Holmes to sue decades later, because he got the copyright for ‘Dazed’ in 1967 … leading to their 2011 settlement.

So, Holmes’ point is any version of the song — Yardbirds or Zep — is not “inspired” by him, it’s written by him, and he wants to be paid as such.

Besides the movie, Holmes says, he’s also getting screwed by recent re-releases of Yardbirds performances … because he hasn’t seen a dime from them.