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Originally Posted by 1blankmind
Didn't they also steal from white artists? Why so much focus on black people?
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It didn't really have to be specifically black. They were stealing many blues songs, and blues was a very African-American genre. Off the top of my head, most blues artists I can think of (not counting blues rock albums) are black. Muddy Waters, Rosetta Tharpe, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Son House, Skip James, Fred McDowell, Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon, Buddy Guy... Zeppelin were pretty much stealing from their leading influences.
Besides, Dazed and Confused was taken from a white guy.