the late Ed Townsend. While Sheeran’s song does recall the tempo and chord progression of Gaye’s hit, ultimately his testimony and even performance of the song, solo on acoustic guitar ...

Ed Sheeran, one of the biggest musical ... of Marvin Gaye's classic "Let's Get It On" claims Sheeran stole the chord progression for his song "Thinking Out Loud." Sheeran opens up about the ...

saying that the chord progression in the two songs “sound very, very similar” to him. Sheeran is accused of copying “Let’s Get It On” by the heirs of Ed Townsend, who co-wrote the 1973 ...

LOWER MANHATTAN -- Ed Sheeran picked up his guitar and performed a mash-up of his songs and Marvin Gaye's as he tried to demonstrate how common the four-chord progression is for his hit "Thinking ...

LONDON, May 12 (Reuters) - Pop star Ed Sheeran topped the UK music charts with his latest album, the critically acclaimed "Subtract", on Friday, a week after winning a U.S. copyright trial over ...

Zane Lowe’s full interview with Ed Sheeran airs ... that there's four chords primarily that are used and there's eight notes.” The family accused Sheeran of copying the song's four-chord ...

The lawsuit, filed by the heirs of Gaye co-writer Ed Townsend, alleges that Sheeran took the rhythm, chord progression and other elements for his 2014 song "Thinking Out Loud" from the 1973 soul ...

Ed Sheeran has emerged victorious once ... a company that owns a small stake over Gaye’s song — argued that Sheeran copied a chord progression and rhythm from “Let’s Get It On.” ...

The heirs of Ed Townsend ... for the plaintiffs had misrepresented his song. In a statement after the verdict on May 4, Mr. Sheeran said, “These chords are common building blocks which were ...