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’s threat that he will quit music if he loses the current ‘Thinking Out Loud’ song-theft case in New York might have actually boosted support for the Ed Townsend estate that instigated this legal battle.
However, Sheeran’s lawyer warned yesterday, if her client loses, all songwriters lose because of the precedent that ruling will set.
And do you really want every single songwriter in the world to lose? Well, do you?The Townsend estate accuses Sheeran of ripping off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ – which Townsend co-wrote – on his 2014 song ‘Thinking Out Loud’.
The Sheeran side counters that the two songs simply share some of the same musical building blocks, as do many other songs, including a significant number released before ‘Let’s Get It On’.During closing arguments in the New York court yesterday, Sheeran’s lawyer Ilene Farkas said that this case should never have filed in the first place. “Ed Townsend did not create these basic musical building blocks”, she added, according to The Independent. “Ed Townsend was not the first songwriter to use and combine these elements.
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