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 & ED TOWNSEND“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
• JURY FDS THAT ED SHEERAN DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC 'LET'S GET IT ON'
• ‘LET’S GET IT ON’: MARV GAYE’S ROMANTIC SOUL LANDMARK
• ‘LET’S GET IT ON’: MARV GAYE’S ROMANTIC SOUL LANDMARK

LET’S GET IT ONMARV GAYETRACK 1 ON LET’S GET IT ON PRODUCED BYMARV GAYE & ED TOWNSEND“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. 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. Marv Gaye pletely changed the lyrics (and meang) to the song after meetg Janis Hunter, the woman who would bee his send wife.

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The song helped cement Gaye's reputatn as one of the greatt sgers of baby-makg mic. Song wrg creds on the song went to both Gaye and Townsend.

"Let's Get It On" was the tle track of Gaye's 1973 album. " He wrote wh Gaye aga on songs for Marv's 1978 album Here, My song has appeared a variety of TV shows, movi and mercials, often for ic effect to imply an imment romantic enunter. Facebook (MarvGaye).

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

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.

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 .

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

I listened to a lot of Marv Gaye and Motown rerds.

When Marv Gaye ma his mic, he evoked this feelg that would reach have the artists said about the song? ‘Marv Gaye’ is the first rerd that I ever wrote California, which is sane, bee did so well, and I never thought that would happen. ’ And I was jt like, ‘Let’s Marv Gaye and get on.

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

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CredsAssistant Mixg EngeersRerd AtAtlantic Studs, Los Angel, CARelease DateFebary 10, 2015Marv Gaye InterpolatnsView Marv Gaye samplTags. 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.

“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.

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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. Let's Get It On is an R&B song by Marv Gaye, released on Augt 28th 1973 the album Let's Get It On (Deluxe Edn). That was the challenge facg Motown matro Marv Gaye after his What’s Gog On op was released 1971.

But stead of sufferg a seemgly evable letdown unr the weight of all that prsure, Gaye leveled up aga to make back-to-back classics.

The album mak s timate tentns clear om the first not of the ttosterone-charged tle track, as Gaye on strong wh a swag and swerve unheard his earlier Motown material. But jt like What’s Gog On, Let’s Get It On—over s ncise, hive 32 mut—was a soul symphony bigger than any one song, as Gaye had evolved om a sgl mache at Motown’s h factory to a visnary album artist producg his own work (here, wh Ed Townsend).

But as much as Let’s Get It On is about, well, gettg on, tracks such as “If I Should Die Tonight” and the closer “Jt to Keep You Satisfied” reveal a raw romanticism and naked vulnerabily that would make Gaye the voice of “sensive people wh so much to give.