Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011. It topped the UK and Australian charts, reached number five in the US, and has since been certified eight-times platinum in the UK.
The album contains the single "The A Team", which earned him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where he performed the song with Elton John.
Ed Sheeran gets his guitar out in court as song-theft case continues
completemusicupdate.comEd Sheeran’s not the world’s most talented guitar player, that’s for certain. And don’t go dissing me for stating the obvious, not least because that’s according to Sheeran himself.
And he was on the witness stand under oath when he delivered that statement, so we’re talking the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
After all, Sheeran’s a song thief not a perjurer.Oh, actually, he’s not a song thief either, is he? Or at least, that’s the position of Team Sheeran as the ‘Thinking Out Loud’ copyright case continues to go through the motions in New York.
Sheeran is accused of ripping off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ when writing his 2014 song. It’s the estate of the co-writer on the Gaye classic – Ed Townsend – who went legal claiming the copyright in the earlier work was infringed by the later release.When he first popped up on the witness stand earlier this week, Sheeran was presented with a video of himself at a show in 2014 mashing together his song with ‘Let’s Get It On’ on stage.
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