Ed Sheeran's Guitar Defends Him in Copyright Trial Case.
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Ed Sheeran defended himself in a copyright trial in Manhattan, where he was accused of copying Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" in his hit ballad "Thinking Out Loud." Sheeran demonstrated the four-chord sequence at the heart of his song, which he said was written in a few hours in early 2014 with his friend and longtime collaborator Amy Wadge. Sheeran denied playing a minor chord that was similar to the one in "Let's Get It On" and testified for nearly an hour, recounting his career trajectory from hardscrabble teenage beginnings to global stardom.
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