Ed Sheeran Serenades the Court in Marvin Gaye Copyright Trial

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Ed Sheeran played his guitar and sang on the witness stand in Manhattan federal court on Thursday

The British singer-songwriter strummed the four-chord progression at the core of his hit song “Thinking Out Loud,” which he said he wrote with longtime collaborator Amy Wadge within a few hours in February 2014 at Sheeran’s home, perHe also sang what he claimed were the song’s original lyrics, “I’m singing out now”, and explained his process for creating the song, which was written after his grandfather died, as reported by.

He said the original phrase sounded like, “I’m thinking out loud”, which replaced the hook, and became the track’s title. Sheeran also said that when he heard Wadge strumming the chords from another room, he thought, “We need to do something with that.” Sheeran’s testimony comes six years after the heirs of Ed Townsend — who co-wrote the 1973 song with Gaye — filed a

 

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