Ed Sheeran testifies he'd be an 'idiot' to copy Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On

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Ed Sheeran testifies he'd be an 'idiot' to copy Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On
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'If I’d done what you’re accusing me of doing, I’d be an idiot.' Ed Sheeran is making his case in court after he was accused of copying parts of Marvin Gaye’s hit song Let’s Get It On for his own track Thinking Out Loud.

after he was accused of copying parts of Marvin Gaye’s hit song Let’s Get It On for his own 2015 track, Thinking Out Loud.

Let’s Get It On was co-written by the late Ed Townsend, who died in 2003, and his heir Kathryn Griffin Townsend is leading the trial. ‘If I’d done what you’re accusing me of doing, I’d be an idiot to stand on stage in front of 20,000 people [and do that],’ he told the lawyer, according to‘It is my belief that most pop songs are built on building blocks that have been freely available for 100s of years.’

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