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 says ‘Thinking Out Loud’ copyright battle was “about heart and integrity”
nme.comEd Sheeran has said that his ‘Thinking Out Loud’ plagiarism case was ultimately “about heart and integrity”, as he celebrated his court battle win earlier this week.The pop star was found to have not copied Marvin Gaye‘s ‘Let’s Get It On’ for his 2014 Number One hit ‘Thinking Out Loud’, a US court ruled on Thursday (May 4).Ed Townsend, one of the co-writers on Gaye’s classic 1973 track, brought the case against Sheeran in 2016.Sheeran spoke to the New York-based radio programme Elvis Duran And The Morning Show yesterday (May 5) about his court victory.“The one thing that felt like the biggest win for me was, afterwards, Kathryn Griffin Townsend [daughter of the late Ed Townsend] and her family and everyone came up to me, hugged me and said, ‘We believe you,’” he said. “I got to walk away…from it knowing I did the right thing.”The accusations alleged that Sheeran and co-writer Amy Wadge copied the rhythm of the 1973 song as well as an ascending four-chord sequence.
It also referenced “striking similarities” between the two tracks that violated copyright, all of which Sheeran denied.Sheeran added that he felt the court case “overshadowed” important things happening in his life and career, including the premiere of his new documentary Ed Sheeran: The Sum Of It All, the release of his new album ‘–‘, and his late grandmother’s funeral.“On both sides, it takes a massive toll – both personally and financially – but it’s about heart and integrity, and that’s why I fought it was, I can’t be accused of something that I didn’t do.
So I just had to prove that,” Sheeran said.After his court win, the singer did an impromptu performance of ‘Boat’, the opening track from ‘-‘, on top of a car that his team owns.
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