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• ED SHEERAN-MARV GAYE PYRIGHT SE: STAR WS TRIAL OVER CLAIMS THKG OUT LOUD RIPPED OFF LET'S GET IT ON
• M.M.R.RERDS中古レコードショップやリユースショップで出会った70〜80年代を中心としたロック、フュージョン、ジャズなどの洋楽、邦楽レコードを聴いてレビューしています。その他、レコード系ニュースや音楽関連の本、ライブレビュー、楽器のことなども。ブログトップ記事一覧画像一覧MARV GAYE/LET'S GET IT ON（1973）
• ‘LET’S GET IT ON’: MARV GAYE’S ROMANTIC SOUL LANDMARK
• ED SHEERAN FOUND NOT LIABLE OF PYG MARV GAYE'S "LET'S GET IT ON" H SONG "THKG OUT LOUD"
• ED SHEERAN CLEARED OF MIMICKG MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON’
• ED SHEERAN WS COPYRIGHT CASE OVER MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON’
• DID ED SHEERAN H STEAL MARV GAYE CLASSIC? TRIAL TO TELL.
• 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’ SGLE: MARV GAYE’S SENSUAL SOUL GROOVE
• DID ED SHEERAN H PILFER MARV GAYE CLASSIC? TRIAL TO TELL
• FLIGHT FACILI RELEASE REMIX OF MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON’
• ED SHEERAN EXPECTED TO TTIFY PYRIGHT TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE'S 'LET’S GET IT ON'
• THE NUMBER ON: MARV GAYE’S “LET’S GET IT ON”
• ED SHEERAN WHISPERS ‘THANK YOU’ TO JURY AFTER NCLUS THAT HE DIDN’T STEAL MARV GAYE’S CLASSIC ‘LET’S GET IT ON’

ED SHEERAN-MARV GAYE PYRIGHT SE: STAR WS TRIAL OVER CLAIMS THKG OUT LOUD RIPPED OFF LET'S GET IT ON

Marv Gaye. After brilliantly surveyg the social, polil, and spirual landspe wh What's Gog On, Marv Gaye turned to more timate matters wh Let's Get It On, a rerd unparalleled s sheer sensualy and rnal energy.

Always a sexually charged performer, Gaye's passns reach their boilg pot on tracks like the magnificent tle h (a number one smash) and "You Sure Love to Ball"; silky and shimmerg, the mic is sctive the most leral sense, s fluid groov so perfectly signed for romance as to borr on parody.

Ed Sheeran has won his pyright trial over siari between his h sgle Thkg Out Loud and the Marv Gaye 1973 classic Let's Get It On. Sheeran was acced of rippg off part of the famed soul track Gaye created wh fellow songwrer Ed Townsend a lawsu origally filed by heirs of Townsend 2017.

M.M.R.RERDS中古レコードショップやリユースショップで出会った70〜80年代を中心としたロック、フュージョン、ジャズなどの洋楽、邦楽レコードを聴いてレビューしています。その他、レコード系ニュースや音楽関連の本、ライブレビュー、楽器のことなども。ブログトップ記事一覧画像一覧MARV GAYE/LET'S GET IT ON（1973）

Ed Sheeran plays guar New York urt as he tri to prove he didn't py Marv Gaye track. Ed Sheeran pyright trial to beg over Marv Gaye h Let's Get It On. Kathryn Townsend Griff, dghter of Ed Townsend, Marv Gaye's Let's Get It On -wrer, pictured outsi urt.

Sheeran is also facg further claims about Thkg Out Loud New York om a pany that holds pyright terts the Gaye 2015, Gaye's heirs won a $5. 3 ln judgment om a lawsu claimg the Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams song Blurred L pied Gaye's Got To Give It Up. Marv Gaye artwork - Courty: UMG.

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

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.

Listen to the bt of Marv Gaye on Apple Mic and Spotify. Ed Sheeran found not liable of pyg Marv Gaye's "Let's Get On". A feral jury found he did not wrongfully py a classic Marv Gaye song.

But at the same time, I'm unbelievably trated that basels claims like this are allowed to go to urt at all, " Sheeran MORE: Ed Sheeran gets a b tty Monday durg pyright gement trialSheeran hugged his attorneys urt after a jury found he did not py Gaye's 1973 song "Lets Get It On" when he wrote his h "Thkg Out Loud. Sheeran was sued by the heirs of Ed Townsend, who -wrote "Let's Get It On" wh Gaye.

ED SHEERAN FOUND NOT LIABLE OF PYG MARV GAYE'S "LET'S GET IT ON" H SONG "THKG OUT LOUD"

A few years ago, Gaye's tate did sue two other pop sgers and won, after a urt found a different Gaye h, "Got To Give It Up" was pied. Pop star Ed Sheeran won a closely watched trial over claims that his 2014 Grammy-wng song Thkg Out Loud pied key mil elements om Marv Gaye’s classic soul groove Let’s Get It On.

A feral jury Manhattan livered the verdict on Thursday, rejectg allegatns by the heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye’s -wrer on the 1973 h. Marv Gaye performs “Let’s Get It On” on “Soul Tra” 1974.

Weavg Between SongsSheeran ttified that ’s easy to weave between songs and that he was spired to create Thkg Out Loud by discsns wh Wadge, who wasn’t named as a More: Ed Sheeran Sgs to Jury to Rebut Claim He Copied Marv GayeHis lawyer Ilene Farkas argued that the songs have very different melodi and lyrics and that the siar chord progrsns are found many other popular songs om bands like the Beach Boys and the Beatl.

ED SHEERAN CLEARED OF MIMICKG MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON’

He cricized the expert wns for the Townsends, Alexanr Stewart, a milogist who ttified for the More: Ed Sheeran ‘Insulted’ by Claims Marv Gaye Copyright TrialSheeran, who was ocsnally bative on the stand, showed particular tratn wh Stewart’s opn that Thkg Out Loud pied Let’s Get It On. Sheeran still fac two other lawsus allegg gement of Let’s Get It On, brought by a pany that bought royalty rights to Gaye’s se is Griff v. Sheeran, 17-cv-05221, US District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan) More: Ed Sheeran Deni ‘Smokg Gun’ Claim He Copied Marv Gaye Song(Adds remarks, ttimony and ntext throughout, startg fourth paragraph.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTEd Sheeran Ws Copyright Case Over Marv Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’The pop star was acced of pyg the 1973 classic for his 2014 h “Thkg Out Loud.

Sheeran had created his song “Thkg Out Loud” penntly and did not py Marv Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On. Rosenfeld/Getty ImagA feral jury found on Thursday that the pop sger Ed Sheeran did not py Marv Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On” for his 2014 h “Thkg Out Loud, ” the mic dtry’s hight-profile pyright se two weeks a downtown Manhattan urtroom, Mr. Wadge observed among elrs their two tracks share a siar synpated chord pattern that the fay of Ed Townsend, Gaye’s -wrer, which filed the su, lled the “heart” of “Let’s Get It On.

ED SHEERAN WS COPYRIGHT CASE OVER MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON’

”“Thkg Out Loud”Ed Sheeran“Let’s Get It On”Marv GayeThe se, which was filed 2017 and had been layed part by the ronavis panmic, volved qutns of origaly pop mic that have been tted a seri of recent s, stokg fears among micians that the le between spiratn and plagiarism was beg a 2015 cisn that shook the bs, Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams’s song “Blurred L” was found to have ged Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up. On “Let’s Get It On, ” that notatn was meant that the jury never heard Gaye’s origal rerdg, which went to No. “This is a w for all songwrers, cludg the next Ed Townsend and the next Marv Gaye, ” said Jennifer Jenks, a law profsor at De who specializ mic pyright.

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

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 18 of the New York edn wh the headle: Sheeran H Didn’t Copy Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On, ’ Jury Fds. Marv Gaye Top Songs the Charts. The song was performed by Marv Gaye.

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

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.

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.

‘LET’S GET IT ON’ SGLE: MARV GAYE’S SENSUAL SOUL GROOVE

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.

DID ED SHEERAN H PILFER MARV GAYE CLASSIC? TRIAL TO TELL

Unfortunately, the album lacks the warmth and inty of the Marv Gaye-Tammi Terrell and Nick Ashford-Valerie Simpson llaboratns, although the latter’s fluence domat the sgg. Acrdg to -producer/-wrer Ed Townsend, Marv Gaye's "Let's Get It On" started out as an anti-dg song.

Walker, Eddie "Bongo" Brown, and Gaye on piano.

FLIGHT FACILI RELEASE REMIX OF MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON’

While workg on the lead vols, Townsend had Gaye improvise lyrics over the chos. The Let's Get It On album stayed at number one R&B for 11 weeks, went to number one pop, and yield "Come Get to This, " "Distant Lover" (a popular live versn was on his Marv Gaye Live at the London Palladium LP), and "You Sure Love to Ball. Every Great Motown H of Marv Gaye.

Anthology: The Bt of Marv Gaye. Marv Gaye’s ’70s ncept albums spanned wound tak on socpolil ncerns (What’s Gog On), the llapse of his own first marriage (Here, My Dear), and the ep heat of sex and romance celebrated on Let’s Get It On.

Gaye, of urse, ma sctn the rerd’s center, but hardly s only subject.

ED SHEERAN EXPECTED TO TTIFY PYRIGHT TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE'S 'LET’S GET IT ON'

Even the tle track, ed endlsly by media as a cue for unbridled sexs, has s philosophil bent (“Sce we got to be here, let’s live”) and a blurred le between love for a woman and the “sanctified” feel of the church Gaye was raised .

THE NUMBER ON: MARV GAYE’S “LET’S GET IT ON”

Marv Gaye 'Let's Get It On' artwork - Courty: UMG. Marv Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” h the top to bee the send of his three US pop chart-toppers, and got listeners hot unr the llar wh s subject matter. ” A week later, Gaye was replaced at the top by Helen Reddy’s “Delta Dawn.

ED SHEERAN WHISPERS ‘THANK YOU’ TO JURY AFTER NCLUS THAT HE DIDN’T STEAL MARV GAYE’S CLASSIC ‘LET’S GET IT ON’

The song was wrten and produced by Gaye wh Ed Townsend, who would later ntend that his ial ia wh the lyric was not about sex, but about overg addictn, and gettg on wh the bs of life.

But Gaye was pretty clear-cut about the subject matter on the sleeve not of the Let’s Get It On album, which reached No. ” The ssns, rerd at Motown’s Hsville Wt Studs March 1973, featured such celebrated players as horn men Plas Johnson and Ernie Watts and the Csars’ duo of Joe Sample and Wilton Felr, as well as Gaye himself on piano.

Townsend, who had known Gaye through the 1960s, wrote the ler not for the 2001 luxe edn of the album: “I have been blsed to work wh many great volists my reer, but none que like Marv Gaye. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe pop star was found not liable for pyg Marv Gaye’s 1973 classic for his own “Thkg Out Loud” the mic dtry’s hight-profile pyright se Sheeran spoke to reporters outsi a Manhattan urthoe after a jury found that he and a -wrer had not pied a Marv Gaye song for his own “Thkg Out Loud. Rosenfeld/Getty ImagThe mic world turned s ey to a feral urthoe Manhattan over the last two weeks, where Ed Sheeran fend himself agast an accatn that his 2014 h “Thkg Out Loud” pied om Marv Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On.

After the shock of the “Blurred L” verdict 2015, which Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams were orred to pay more than $5 ln to Gaye’s fay — a se that many experts felt was wrongly cid — Led Zeppel prevailed a su volvg “Stairway to Heaven, ” sendg the pendulum back to a more ntral posn. Stanton, stipulated they were not protected by platiffs (the fay of Gaye’s -wrer, Ed Townsend) need to prove that the batn of those elements — their “selectn and arrangement” — was origal enough to warrant protectn. Although “Thkg Out Loud” was played a number of tim, jurors never heard Marv Gaye’s beloved, luxurly sung rerdg of “Let’s Get It On.

” Stewart’s hypothis that Sheeran had mimicked some of Gaye’s melodi, Ferrara said, was, “to be perfectly hont, absurd. Facebook (MarvGaye).

Marv Pentz Gay, Jr. NEW YORK (AP) — Openg statements were set to occur Tuday after a jury was chosen 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 h 2014 tune has “strikg siari” to “Let’s Get It On” and “overt mon elements” that vlate their lawsu filed 2017 has fally ma to a trial that is expected to last up to two weeks the Manhattan feral urtroom of 95-year-old Judge Louis L. Over the remblance of their 2013 h “Blurred L” to Gaye’s 1977 “Got to Give Up.