2023-04-28 06:51:00
In a scene described by the American press as “strange”, the British pop star, Ed Sheeran, sang while playing the guitar in a court in New York before the judge. Sheeran appears before the court in a case related to plagiarism from a song by American Marvin Gaye.
The New York Times reported that a music specialist indicated on Thursday that the succession of notes in the two songs is somewhat similar, which prompted Sheeran to perform the song inside the courtroom while he was playing the guitar.
Sheeran played the main four riffs on his song “Thinking Out Loud,” emphasizing its difference from the riffs on Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” (1973).
This is the second time in a year that Sheeran, 32, is facing a plagiarism case in his world-famous songs. And after the London High Court ruled in his favor in one of the cases last year, Sheeran pleads innocent this time from the accusations brought against him by the heirs of Ed Townsend, a musician and producer who co-authored Gaye’s song released in 1973. The trial began at the weekend in Manhattan.
By playing a verse from his song and then another from Gaye’s song, Sheeran tried to prove that the tunes of “Let’s Get It On” didn’t fit with “Thinking Out Loud.”
The British musician also confirmed to the court that in February 2014 he wrote the lyrics for his song at his home in partnership with singer-songwriter Amy Wedge, with whom he usually interacts.
“We were sitting with our two guitars, and we composed a lot of songs,” Sheeran was quoted as saying by >. And the song “Thinking Out Loud” appeared on the top 100 songs in the United States, and Sheeran won the Grammy for “Song of the Year” for the year 2016.
Sessions are scheduled to resume on Monday.
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