Though he's performed with some of the world's great artists and become a regular at music award shows by age 32, he said from the witness stand with his chair tilted toward the jury: “I'm not the world's most talented guitar player.”Then he launched into the song that heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye's co-writer on “Let's Get It On," say has “striking similarities” and “over common elements” to the famed 1973 Gaye musical treasure.
Two days earlier, he had been called to testify by attorneys for the plaintiffs and was adamant in telling jurors that he and Wadge came up with the song without copying anyone else's music. On Thursday, his lawyer posed friendly questions, eliciting from Sheeran how he became interested in music after joining a church choir with his mother when he was 4.
He said he quit school at 17 so he could perform up to three times a night, playing anywhere that would have him, from bingo halls to restaurants to “anywhere nobody was.”
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