Ed Sheeran didn't ge pyright of Marv Gaye's 'Let's Get It On' : NPR

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• LET’S GET IT ONMARV GAYETRACK 1 ON LET’S GET IT ON PRODUCED BYMARV GAYE“LET’S GET IT ON” IS A CEPTIVELY SIMPLE CLARATN OF SEX-POSIVY, RELEASED AT A TIME WHEN SUCH STATEMENTS WERE REVOLUTNARY. IT IS EVEN MORE IMPRSIVE WHEN ONE… READ MORE JUN. 15, 19731 VIEWER224.1K VIEWS45 CONTRIBUTORSLET’S GET IT ON LYRICS[VERSE 1]I'VE BEEN REALLY TRYG, BABYTRYG TO HOLD BACK THIS FEELG FOR SO LONGAND IF YOU FEEL LIKE I FEEL, BABYTHEN E ON, OH, E ON, OOH[CHOS]LET'S GET ON, OW BABYLET'S GET ON, LET'S LOVE, BABYLET'S GET ON, SUGARLET'S GET ON, WOO[VERSE 2]WE'RE ALL SENSIVE PEOPLE WH SO MUCH TO GIVEUNRSTAND ME, SUGARSCE WE GOT TO BE HERE, LET'S LIVE, I LOVE YOUTHERE'S NOTHG WRONG WH ME LOVG YOU, BABY, NO, NOAND GIVG YOURSELF TO ME N NEVER BE WRONGIF THE LOVE IS TE, OH, BABY, OOH[BRIDGE]DON'T YOU KNOW HOW SWEET AND WONRFUL LIFE N BE, OOH-OOHI'M ASKG YOU, BABY, TO GET ON WH ME, OOH-OOH-OOHI A'T GONNA WORRY, I A'T GONNA PH, I WON'T PH YOU, BABYSO E ON, E ON, E ON, E ON, E ON, BABYSTOP BEATG 'ROUND THE BH, HEYYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 3]LET'S GET ON, LET'S GET ONYOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALK' 'BOUTCOME ON, BABY, HEY, LET YOUR LOVE E OUTIF YOU BELIEVE LOVELET'S GET ON, OOH, LET'S GET ON BABYTHIS MUTE, OH YEAH, LET'S GET ONPLEASE, LET'S GET ON, HEY, HEY[BRIDGE]I KNOW YOU KNOW WHAT I BEEN DREAM' OF, DON'T YOU, BABY?MY WHOLE BODY WANTS THAT FEEL' OF LOVE, OH, HELP ME, WOOI A'T GONNA WORRY, NO, I A'T GONNA PHI WON'T PH YOU, BABY, WOOCOME ON, E ON, E ON, E ON, DARLGSTOP BEAT' 'ROUND THE BH, HEY[REA]OH, GONNA GET ON, THREATEN' YOU, BABYI WANNA GET ONYOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY THAT 'S WRONGIF THE SPIR MOV YOULET ME GROOVE YOU GOODLET YOUR LOVE E DOWNOH, GET ON, E ON, BABYDO YOU KNOW THE MEANG?OF BEG SANCTIFIED, HEY, HEYGIRL, YOU GIVE ME GOOD FEELGSO GOOD, SOMETH' LIKE SANCTIFIEDOH, DO RIGHT, BABYNOTHG WRONG WH LOVEIF YOU WANT TO LOVE ME, JT LET YOURSELF GOOH BABY, LET'S GET ON RIGHT NOW24EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• ‘LET’S GET IT ON’: MARV GAYE’S ROMANTIC SOUL LANDMARK
• JURY FDS THAT ED SHEERAN DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC 'LET'S GET IT ON'
• DID ED SHEERAN H STEAL MARV GAYE CLASSIC? TRIAL TO TELL.
• ED SHEERAN WS PYRIGHT SE, AS JURY L HE DID NOT STEAL MARV GAYE'S 'LET'S GET IT ON'

LET’S GET IT ONMARV GAYETRACK 1 ON LET’S GET IT ON PRODUCED BYMARV GAYE“LET’S GET IT ON” IS A CEPTIVELY SIMPLE CLARATN OF SEX-POSIVY, RELEASED AT A TIME WHEN SUCH STATEMENTS WERE REVOLUTNARY. IT IS EVEN MORE IMPRSIVE WHEN ONE… READ MORE JUN. 15, 19731 VIEWER224.1K VIEWS45 CONTRIBUTORSLET’S GET IT ON LYRICS[VERSE 1]I'VE BEEN REALLY TRYG, BABYTRYG TO HOLD BACK THIS FEELG FOR SO LONGAND IF YOU FEEL LIKE I FEEL, BABYTHEN E ON, OH, E ON, OOH[CHOS]LET'S GET ON, OW BABYLET'S GET ON, LET'S LOVE, BABYLET'S GET ON, SUGARLET'S GET ON, WOO[VERSE 2]WE'RE ALL SENSIVE PEOPLE WH SO MUCH TO GIVEUNRSTAND ME, SUGARSCE WE GOT TO BE HERE, LET'S LIVE, I LOVE YOUTHERE'S NOTHG WRONG WH ME LOVG YOU, BABY, NO, NOAND GIVG YOURSELF TO ME N NEVER BE WRONGIF THE LOVE IS TE, OH, BABY, OOH[BRIDGE]DON'T YOU KNOW HOW SWEET AND WONRFUL LIFE N BE, OOH-OOHI'M ASKG YOU, BABY, TO GET ON WH ME, OOH-OOH-OOHI A'T GONNA WORRY, I A'T GONNA PH, I WON'T PH YOU, BABYSO E ON, E ON, E ON, E ON, E ON, BABYSTOP BEATG 'ROUND THE BH, HEYYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 3]LET'S GET ON, LET'S GET ONYOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALK' 'BOUTCOME ON, BABY, HEY, LET YOUR LOVE E OUTIF YOU BELIEVE LOVELET'S GET ON, OOH, LET'S GET ON BABYTHIS MUTE, OH YEAH, LET'S GET ONPLEASE, LET'S GET ON, HEY, HEY[BRIDGE]I KNOW YOU KNOW WHAT I BEEN DREAM' OF, DON'T YOU, BABY?MY WHOLE BODY WANTS THAT FEEL' OF LOVE, OH, HELP ME, WOOI A'T GONNA WORRY, NO, I A'T GONNA PHI WON'T PH YOU, BABY, WOOCOME ON, E ON, E ON, E ON, DARLGSTOP BEAT' 'ROUND THE BH, HEY[REA]OH, GONNA GET ON, THREATEN' YOU, BABYI WANNA GET ONYOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY THAT 'S WRONGIF THE SPIR MOV YOULET ME GROOVE YOU GOODLET YOUR LOVE E DOWNOH, GET ON, E ON, BABYDO YOU KNOW THE MEANG?OF BEG SANCTIFIED, HEY, HEYGIRL, YOU GIVE ME GOOD FEELGSO GOOD, SOMETH' LIKE SANCTIFIEDOH, DO RIGHT, BABYNOTHG WRONG WH LOVEIF YOU WANT TO LOVE ME, JT LET YOURSELF GOOH BABY, LET'S GET ON RIGHT NOW24EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

Marv Gaye artwork - Courty: UMG. Marv Gaye started releasg albums at the age of jt 22, 1961. Gaye fans were primed and ready for this sensuo celebratn via the tle track lead sgle, which h the charts July that year and was the send of a six-week n atop the Billboard Hot 100 when the album charted.

“Gaye his voice ( both lead and background) to create a dreamlike qualy only slightly ls surreal than he did on What’s Gog On, his very bt rerd to date, ” wrote Jon Land Rollg Stone.

‘LET’S GET IT ON’: MARV GAYE’S ROMANTIC SOUL LANDMARK

Listen to the bt of Marv Gaye on Apple Mic and Spotify. Facebook (MarvGaye).

Marv Gaye. Marv Pentz Gay, Jr. NEW YORK — A feral jury New York nclud Thursday that Brish sger Ed Sheeran didn't steal key ponents of Marv Gaye's classic 1970s tune "Let's Get It On" when he created his h song "Thkg Out Loud.

He then spoke for about 10 mut wh the platiffs, cludg the dghter of Ed Townsend, who -created the 1973 soul classic wh Gaye. Gaye was killed 1984 at age 44, shot by his father as he tried to tervene a fight between his parents. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe heirs of Ed Townsend, who -wrote “Let’s Get It On” wh Marv Gaye, had acced the pop star of pyg “Thkg Out Loud.

JURY FDS THAT ED SHEERAN DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC 'LET'S GET IT ON'

“Y, Amy Wadge and I wrote the song ‘Thkg Out Loud, ’” he Newman/Associated PrsIn a closely watched mic pyright trial, jurors ultimately sid wh Ed Sheeran, who had been acced of pyg his Grammy-wng ballad “Thkg Out Loud” om Marv Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On. “Thkg Out Loud”Ed Sheeran“Let’s Get It On”Marv GayeWhat were the trial’s highlights? ”ImageEd Townsend was a songwrer and producer who llaborated wh Gaye on the “Let’s Get It On” Ochs Archiv/Getty ImagWhat parts of the songs are dispute?

The trial was watched closely mic and legal circl as the latt example a seri of s that have alt wh whether monplace bs of harmony or melody n be owned by any poser or are part of the public trend began 2015 when a jury found that Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams, their h “Blurred L, ” had ged on the pyright of another Gaye tune, “Got to Give It Up, ” and they were orred to pay more than $5 ln damag. Jury selectn and openg statements began Monday a trial that mash up Ed Sheeran's "Thkg Out Loud" wh Marv Gaye's "Let's Get It On. " The heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye's -wrer of the 1973 soul classic, sued Sheeran, allegg the English pop star's 2014 h tune has "strikg siari" to "Let's Get It On" and "overt mon elements" that vlate their two songs were released s apart, but some say they sound seamls when paired together.

The Amerin Soul mician Marv Gaye, who died 1984, performs onstage at the Holiday Star Theater, Merrillville, Indiana, June 10, 1983.

DID ED SHEERAN H STEAL MARV GAYE CLASSIC? TRIAL TO TELL.

Over the remblance of their 2013 h "Blurred L" to Gaye's 1977 classic "Got to Give Up.

A jury award Gaye's heirs $7. Already a Motown superstar the 1960s before his more adult 1970s output ma him a generatnal mil giant, Gaye was killed 1984 at age 44, shot by his father as he tried to tervene a fight between his parents. Above all, has Marv Gaye’s bt sgg at s center, fe background voic on the si, and a long, moody fa-out that challeng you not to play the cut aga.

ED SHEERAN WS PYRIGHT SE, AS JURY L HE DID NOT STEAL MARV GAYE'S 'LET'S GET IT ON'

For the rt of the LP, Gaye his voice ( both lead and background) to create a dreamlike qualy only slightly ls surreal than he did on What’s Go’ On, his very bt rerd to date. The first si was -wrten and -produced by veteran rock hand Ed Townshend, and flows wh ease, the melodi sometim unrveloped, but Gaye’s voice, hoverg around the falsetto, holdg our attentn and providg unique transns mood and style that happily brg back to a reprise of the tle cut, “Keep Gett’ It On. Gaye produced the send si, and is more darg and self-nsc.

Instead, ebbs and flows, ocsnally threateng to spend self on an sufficiency of ias, but always retrieved, jt time, by Gaye’s performance.