Pharrell Williams: We didn't py Marv Gaye song for "Blurred L" - CBS News

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• PHARRELL WILLIAMS TALKS GAY MARRIAGE ON 'ELLEN'
• PHARRELL WILLIAMS BACKS GAY MARRIAGE: ‘EQUALY FOR EVERYBODY’
• ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'
• PHARRELL, ELLEN ADDRS KIM BURRELL'S ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS
• PHARRELL WILLIAMS AND ROB THICKE TO PAY $7.4M TO MARV GAYE'S FAY OVER BLURRED L
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HE HAS BEEN PART OF THE FAMO PRODUCTN DUO THE NEPTUN AND -FOUND AND SANG LEAD VOLS FOR THE ALT-ROCK/HIP-HOP BAND N.E.R.D. WILLIAMS ALSO PRODUCED SONGS FOR SOME OF THE BIGGT MIC STARS, CLUDG NELLY, JAY-Z, BRNEY SPEARS, BTA RHYM, P. DIDDY, SNOOP DOGG, NO DOUBT, USHER AND LIMP BIZK. HE’S WRTEN SR AND SONGS FOR MOVI, CLUDG THE ANIMATED DPIBLE ME AND S SEQUELS. HIS SONG “HAPPY,” WRTEN FOR DPIBLE ME 2, WAS A TOP BILLBOARD HOT 100 CHART H FOR 10 STRAIGHT WEEKS AND WAS NOMATED FOR AN AMY AWARD FOR BT ORIGAL SONG. “THAT SONG WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN THE SAME SONG IF HAD BEEN FOR MY ALBUM,” HE SAID, “BUT BEE WAS FOR AN ANIMATN, THE ONLY THG I ULD DO WAS TO PUT PURE EMOTN TO —MAKE A SONG FOR A MAN JT WALKG DOWN THE STREET WH PURE HAPPS BEE HE FELL LOVE FOR THE FIRST TIME.” IN 2014, TIME MAGAZE NAMED HIM ONE OF THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE THE WORLD.EARLY YEARSPHARRELL WILLIAMS WAS BORN ON APRIL 5, 1973, TO PARENTS PHAROAH WILLIAMS AND CAROLE RANDALL WILLIAMS VIRGIA BEACH, VIRGIA. HE TOLD VANY FAIR THAT HIS EARLY FLUENC WERE “HIP-HOP, HAIR BAND MIC AND GNGE.”A PERCSNIST FOR HIS HIGH SCHOOL BAND, HE MET SAXOPHONIST CHAD HUGO AT BAND MP, AND THE TWO BEME IENDS THROUGH MIC, FORMG A BAND LLED THE NEPTUN. MIC PRODUCER TEDDY RILEY SIGNED THEM, AND THE NEPTUN EVENTUALLY BEME A PRODUCTN TEAM. IN 1994, THEY PRODUCED THE SONG “TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT” ON BLACKSTREET’S BUT ALBUM.N.E.R.D AND PRODUCTN CREDSTHE NEPTUN PRODUCED SONGS SUCH AS “STEAL AWAY” BY MARY J. BLIGE, “DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT” BY SNOOP DOGG AND “ROCK YOUR BODY” BY JT TIMBERLAKE. THEY WERE DUCTED TO THE SONGWRERS HALL OF FAME 2022. WILLIAMS, HUGO AND DMMER SHAY HALEY FORMED THE BAND N.E.R.D, WHICH RELEASED S FIRST ALBUM, IN SEARCH OF…, 2001, FOLLOWED BY FLY OR DIE (2004), SEEG SOUNDS (2008) AND NOTHG (2010). THE BAND RNED 2017 WH THE ALBUM NO_ONE EVER REALLY DI, WHICH TOOK A MORE POLIL STANCE THAN THEIR PREV WORK.WILLIAMS WON A GRAMMY 2003 FOR PRODUCG TIMBERLAKE’S FIRST SOLO ALBUM, JTIFIED. TIMBERLAKE PRAISED THE PRODUCER, WRG A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAMS, “WHEN I CID TO WORK ON MY FIRST SOLO ALBUM 2002, PHARRELL WAS THE FIRST MICIAN I SPOKE TO. I WAS 21 AND READY TO SAY SOMETHG TO THE WORLD. BUT I NEED SOMEONE TO HELP ME TRANSLATE EXACTLY WHAT THAT SOMETHG WAS. I KNEW OM OUR FIRST NVERSATN THAT HE WAS THAT PERSON… HE MA ME FEARLS, AND I’VE RRIED THAT WH ME THE RT OF MY LIFE.”IN 2004, WILLIAMS WON A GRAMMY FOR PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSIL, WHICH HE PPED OFF BY PLAYG DMS AT THE GRAMMYS A QUARTET FEATURG STG, DAVE MATTHEWS AND VCE GILL A VER TRIBUTE OF THE BEATL’ CLASSIC “I SAW HER STANDG THERE.” IN 2010, HE WAS NAMED BILLBOARD’S PRODUCER OF THE DE. THE DAFT PUNK SONG “GET LUCKY,” WHICH WILLIAMS SANG ON AND -WROTE, WON THE GRAMMY FOR BT POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE AND RERD OF THE YEAR 2014.HE -WROTE AND PRODUCED ROB THICKE’S 2013 H SONG “BLURRED L,” BUT TWO YEARS LATER, A LOS ANGEL JURY FOUND THE SONG HAD GED ON THE PYRIGHT OF THE 1977 SONG "GOT TO GIVE IT UP” BY MARV GAYE. THE JURY AWARD $7.3 LN TO GAYE’S TATE, WHICH WAS LATER RCED TO AROUND $5 LN.MOVIWILLIAMS HAS ALSO BEEN ACTIVE TV AND MOVI. IN ADDN TO HIS WORK ON THE DPIBLE ME FILMS, HE LLABORATED ON THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THE 2014 MOVIE THE AMAZG SPIR-MAN 2. HE -PRODUCED THE MOVIE HIDN FIGUR, EARNG HIM AN OSR NOMATN 2017. WILLIAMS WAS A NARRATOR THE 2018 ANIMATED MOVIE THE GRCH AND APPEARED THE 2015 FILMS ENTOURAGE AND PCH PERFECT 2. AND OM 2014 TO 2016, HE WAS A ACH ON “THE VOICE,” THE REALY TV SGG PETN.IN DISNEY’S 2019 REMAKE OF THE LN KG, WILLIAMS PRODUCED FIVE SONGS. AND FOR NETFLIX’S THE BLACK GODFATHER, HE AND HUGO -WROTE AND -PRODUCED A SONG LLED "LETTER TO MY GODFATHER.”FASHN IN AND OTHER WORKIN 2005, ESQUIRE NAMED WILLIAMS THE WORLD’S BT-DRSED MAN, PRAISG HIM FOR "JECTG DRSED-UP LUXURY TO HIP-HOP STYLE." HE TOLD THE PUBLITN, "IT'S ABOUT FORT AND FLOW. IT'S NEVER ABOUT WHETHER I'M THE BT-DRSED GUY THE ROOM. I NEVER GO, 'OH, I'M KILL' EM TONIGHT!' THGS JT NEED TO F NATURALLY. FASHN'S MORE ABOUT FEEL THAN SCIENCE."ALONG WH JAPANE MIC PRODUCER NIGO WILLIAMS, HE STARTED THE CLOTHG L BILLNAIRE BOYS CLUB AND ICE CREAM. WILLIAMS IS ALSO ACTIVE THE HOSPALY BS WH SWAN, AN DOOR/OUTDOOR RTRANT MIAMI, AND THE GOODTIME HOTEL MIAMI BEACH.IN 2019, WILLIAMS LNCHED A MULTI-DAY MIC FTIVAL HIS HOMETOWN OF VIRGIA BEACH LLED SOMETHG THE WATER (SITW). HE MOVED THE EVENT TO WASHGTON, D.C. 2022, UPSET WH VIRGIA BEACH’S RPONSE TO THE FATAL SHOOTG OF HIS , DONOVAN LYNCH, BY POLICE 2021. BUT NOVEMBER 2022, WILLIAMS SAID THE FTIVAL WOULD RETURN TO HIS HOMETOWN 2023, EXPLAG, “I NEED TO E BACK HOME. THERE IS A PERVASIVE FEELG BY ALMOST EVERYONE THAT THE FTIVAL BELONGS VIRGIA BEACH, AND THE TIME IS RIGHT TO BRG BACK.”WILLIAMS STARTED A NONPROF 2008 LLED ONE HAND TO ANOTHER, AIMED AT HELPG UNRSERVED YOUTH WH TNAL TOOLS NEED FOR FUTURE SUCCS.WIFE AND CHILDRENWILLIAMS IS MARRIED TO HELEN LASICHANH. THEY HAVE FOUR CHILDREN, CLUDG {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
• PHARRELL, ELLEN DEGENER ADDRS KIM BURRELL’S ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS
• PHARRELL WILLIAMS: WE DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE SONG FOR "BLURRED L"
• PHARRELL WILLIAMS DENI MARV GAYE’S FAY’S ACCATNS OF PERJURY

PHARRELL WILLIAMS TALKS GAY MARRIAGE ON 'ELLEN'

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PHARRELL WILLIAMS BACKS GAY MARRIAGE: ‘EQUALY FOR EVERYBODY’

Is Pharrell Williams Gay? Pharrell Williams has voiced his support of gay marriage. Around 300 upl married the state last month, after the ban on gay marriage was lifted, only for to be put back place a few days later.

Sexualy - Gay or Nay. Correct our wiki/b - is he not gay or straight or of different herage? Rob Thicke, Pharrell Williams to pay $5 ln to Marv Gaye tate for 'Blurred L'The five-year legal battle has end wh a verdict favor of Mart Gaye's tate, who sued claimg "Blurred L" pied Gaye's "Got To Give It Up"Sger Pharrell Williams and sger Rob Thicke perform together Fayetteville, Arkansas, on June 6, Wilkg / Rters fileDec.

13, 2018, 8:24 PM UTCThe long drawn-out pyright battle over Rob Thicke’s 2013 song “Blurred L” has end after a judge orred Thicke and Pharrell Williams to pay almost $5 ln to Marv Gaye’s tate the se’s fal lg. Members of Gaye’s fay sued Thicke and Williams, along wh rapper and featured artist on the song, T. I., 2013 for pyright gement of Gaye’s 1977 h song “Got to Give It Up.

ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'

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The urt orred Thicke and Williams to pay Gaye’s tate more than $7 ln dollars, an amount that was later rced to $5. 6 lg, a judge the Central District of California reaffirmed the March lg, clarg Thicke, Williams, and More Water From Nazareth Publishg mt pay Gaye’s tate $2.

PHARRELL, ELLEN ADDRS KIM BURRELL'S ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS

76 ln dollars, while Williams and his publishg pany mt each pay Gaye’s tat separate rewards of $357, 630.

PHARRELL WILLIAMS AND ROB THICKE TO PAY $7.4M TO MARV GAYE'S FAY OVER BLURRED L

Was cleared of any liabily March, a cisn upheld this last and fal Gaye tate was also reward half of the song’s nng royalti om after the urt’s origal judgment date, and tert of 0. In 2016, more than 200 micians, cludg Jennifer Hudson and Hans Zimmer, filed an amic brief support of Thicke and Williams appeal, claimg the verdict would be “very dangero” to the mic the Gaye fay first filed their lawsu, other high-profile artists like Lana Del Rey and Mark Ronson have been siarly KslenBen Kslen is a reporter for NBC News.

Thursday's episo of The Ellen Show is a b different than origally sger Kim Burrell was origally schled to perform a song om the Hidn Figur soundtrack wh Pharrell Williams on the talk show, but her appearance was nceled after a vio of Burrell makg anti-gay statements at Hoton's Love & Liberty Fellowship Church went viral. In the vio Burrell lls homosexualy "perverted. "(Burrell) ma a statement, and she said some very not nice thgs about homosexuals, so I didn't feel that was good of me to have her on the show to give her a platform after she's sayg thgs about me, " the host explaed, before turng to Pharrell.

"Frank Ocean's mom wants to remove Kim Burrell om his album“Whenever you hear some sort of hate speech and you feel like don’t perta to you bee you may not have anythg to do wh that, all you got to do is put the word black that sentence, or put gay that sentence, or put transgenr that sentence, or put whe that sentence and all of the sudn starts to make sense to you, ” he ntued. A jury award Marv Gaye’s children nearly $7. 4m on Tuday after termg sgers Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams pied their father’s mic to create Blurred L, the biggt h song of Gaye’s dghter Nona Gaye wept as the verdict was beg read and was hugged by her attorney, Richard Bch.

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HE HAS BEEN PART OF THE FAMO PRODUCTN DUO THE NEPTUN AND -FOUND AND SANG LEAD VOLS FOR THE ALT-ROCK/HIP-HOP BAND N.E.R.D. WILLIAMS ALSO PRODUCED SONGS FOR SOME OF THE BIGGT MIC STARS, CLUDG NELLY, JAY-Z, BRNEY SPEARS, BTA RHYM, P. DIDDY, SNOOP DOGG, NO DOUBT, USHER AND LIMP BIZK. HE’S WRTEN SR AND SONGS FOR MOVI, CLUDG THE ANIMATED DPIBLE ME AND S SEQUELS. HIS SONG “HAPPY,” WRTEN FOR DPIBLE ME 2, WAS A TOP BILLBOARD HOT 100 CHART H FOR 10 STRAIGHT WEEKS AND WAS NOMATED FOR AN AMY AWARD FOR BT ORIGAL SONG. “THAT SONG WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN THE SAME SONG IF HAD BEEN FOR MY ALBUM,” HE SAID, “BUT BEE WAS FOR AN ANIMATN, THE ONLY THG I ULD DO WAS TO PUT PURE EMOTN TO —MAKE A SONG FOR A MAN JT WALKG DOWN THE STREET WH PURE HAPPS BEE HE FELL LOVE FOR THE FIRST TIME.” IN 2014, TIME MAGAZE NAMED HIM ONE OF THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE THE WORLD.EARLY YEARSPHARRELL WILLIAMS WAS BORN ON APRIL 5, 1973, TO PARENTS PHAROAH WILLIAMS AND CAROLE RANDALL WILLIAMS VIRGIA BEACH, VIRGIA. HE TOLD VANY FAIR THAT HIS EARLY FLUENC WERE “HIP-HOP, HAIR BAND MIC AND GNGE.”A PERCSNIST FOR HIS HIGH SCHOOL BAND, HE MET SAXOPHONIST CHAD HUGO AT BAND MP, AND THE TWO BEME IENDS THROUGH MIC, FORMG A BAND LLED THE NEPTUN. MIC PRODUCER TEDDY RILEY SIGNED THEM, AND THE NEPTUN EVENTUALLY BEME A PRODUCTN TEAM. IN 1994, THEY PRODUCED THE SONG “TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT” ON BLACKSTREET’S BUT ALBUM.N.E.R.D AND PRODUCTN CREDSTHE NEPTUN PRODUCED SONGS SUCH AS “STEAL AWAY” BY MARY J. BLIGE, “DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT” BY SNOOP DOGG AND “ROCK YOUR BODY” BY JT TIMBERLAKE. THEY WERE DUCTED TO THE SONGWRERS HALL OF FAME 2022. WILLIAMS, HUGO AND DMMER SHAY HALEY FORMED THE BAND N.E.R.D, WHICH RELEASED S FIRST ALBUM, IN SEARCH OF…, 2001, FOLLOWED BY FLY OR DIE (2004), SEEG SOUNDS (2008) AND NOTHG (2010). THE BAND RNED 2017 WH THE ALBUM NO_ONE EVER REALLY DI, WHICH TOOK A MORE POLIL STANCE THAN THEIR PREV WORK.WILLIAMS WON A GRAMMY 2003 FOR PRODUCG TIMBERLAKE’S FIRST SOLO ALBUM, JTIFIED. TIMBERLAKE PRAISED THE PRODUCER, WRG A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAMS, “WHEN I CID TO WORK ON MY FIRST SOLO ALBUM 2002, PHARRELL WAS THE FIRST MICIAN I SPOKE TO. I WAS 21 AND READY TO SAY SOMETHG TO THE WORLD. BUT I NEED SOMEONE TO HELP ME TRANSLATE EXACTLY WHAT THAT SOMETHG WAS. I KNEW OM OUR FIRST NVERSATN THAT HE WAS THAT PERSON… HE MA ME FEARLS, AND I’VE RRIED THAT WH ME THE RT OF MY LIFE.”IN 2004, WILLIAMS WON A GRAMMY FOR PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSIL, WHICH HE PPED OFF BY PLAYG DMS AT THE GRAMMYS A QUARTET FEATURG STG, DAVE MATTHEWS AND VCE GILL A VER TRIBUTE OF THE BEATL’ CLASSIC “I SAW HER STANDG THERE.” IN 2010, HE WAS NAMED BILLBOARD’S PRODUCER OF THE DE. THE DAFT PUNK SONG “GET LUCKY,” WHICH WILLIAMS SANG ON AND -WROTE, WON THE GRAMMY FOR BT POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE AND RERD OF THE YEAR 2014.HE -WROTE AND PRODUCED ROB THICKE’S 2013 H SONG “BLURRED L,” BUT TWO YEARS LATER, A LOS ANGEL JURY FOUND THE SONG HAD GED ON THE PYRIGHT OF THE 1977 SONG "GOT TO GIVE IT UP” BY MARV GAYE. THE JURY AWARD $7.3 LN TO GAYE’S TATE, WHICH WAS LATER RCED TO AROUND $5 LN.MOVIWILLIAMS HAS ALSO BEEN ACTIVE TV AND MOVI. IN ADDN TO HIS WORK ON THE DPIBLE ME FILMS, HE LLABORATED ON THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THE 2014 MOVIE THE AMAZG SPIR-MAN 2. HE -PRODUCED THE MOVIE HIDN FIGUR, EARNG HIM AN OSR NOMATN 2017. WILLIAMS WAS A NARRATOR THE 2018 ANIMATED MOVIE THE GRCH AND APPEARED THE 2015 FILMS ENTOURAGE AND PCH PERFECT 2. AND OM 2014 TO 2016, HE WAS A ACH ON “THE VOICE,” THE REALY TV SGG PETN.IN DISNEY’S 2019 REMAKE OF THE LN KG, WILLIAMS PRODUCED FIVE SONGS. AND FOR NETFLIX’S THE BLACK GODFATHER, HE AND HUGO -WROTE AND -PRODUCED A SONG LLED "LETTER TO MY GODFATHER.”FASHN IN AND OTHER WORKIN 2005, ESQUIRE NAMED WILLIAMS THE WORLD’S BT-DRSED MAN, PRAISG HIM FOR "JECTG DRSED-UP LUXURY TO HIP-HOP STYLE." HE TOLD THE PUBLITN, "IT'S ABOUT FORT AND FLOW. IT'S NEVER ABOUT WHETHER I'M THE BT-DRSED GUY THE ROOM. I NEVER GO, 'OH, I'M KILL' EM TONIGHT!' THGS JT NEED TO F NATURALLY. FASHN'S MORE ABOUT FEEL THAN SCIENCE."ALONG WH JAPANE MIC PRODUCER NIGO WILLIAMS, HE STARTED THE CLOTHG L BILLNAIRE BOYS CLUB AND ICE CREAM. WILLIAMS IS ALSO ACTIVE THE HOSPALY BS WH SWAN, AN DOOR/OUTDOOR RTRANT MIAMI, AND THE GOODTIME HOTEL MIAMI BEACH.IN 2019, WILLIAMS LNCHED A MULTI-DAY MIC FTIVAL HIS HOMETOWN OF VIRGIA BEACH LLED SOMETHG THE WATER (SITW). HE MOVED THE EVENT TO WASHGTON, D.C. 2022, UPSET WH VIRGIA BEACH’S RPONSE TO THE FATAL SHOOTG OF HIS , DONOVAN LYNCH, BY POLICE 2021. BUT NOVEMBER 2022, WILLIAMS SAID THE FTIVAL WOULD RETURN TO HIS HOMETOWN 2023, EXPLAG, “I NEED TO E BACK HOME. THERE IS A PERVASIVE FEELG BY ALMOST EVERYONE THAT THE FTIVAL BELONGS VIRGIA BEACH, AND THE TIME IS RIGHT TO BRG BACK.”WILLIAMS STARTED A NONPROF 2008 LLED ONE HAND TO ANOTHER, AIMED AT HELPG UNRSERVED YOUTH WH TNAL TOOLS NEED FOR FUTURE SUCCS.WIFE AND CHILDRENWILLIAMS IS MARRIED TO HELEN LASICHANH. 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“Right now, I feel ee, ” Nona Gaye said after the verdict.

”The verdict uld tarnish the legacy of Williams, a reliable h-maker who has won Grammy awards and appears on NBC’s mic petn show The attorney for Thicke and Williams has said a cisn favor of Gaye’s heirs uld have a chillg effect on micians who try to emulate an era or another artist’s Gay’ lawyer brand Williams and Thicke liars who went beyond tryg to emulate the sound of Gaye’s late-1970s mic and pied the R&B legend’s h Got to Give It Up outright.

“They fought this fight spe every odd beg agast them, ” Bch said of the Gaye fay outsi told jurors he didn’t wre Blurred L, which Williams ttified he crafted about an hour mid-2012.

PHARRELL, ELLEN DEGENER ADDRS KIM BURRELL’S ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS

Williams told jurors that Gaye’s mic was part of the soundtrack of his youth. But the seven-time Grammy wner said he didn’t e any of to create Blurred ’s children – Nona, Frankie and Marv Gaye III – sued the sgers 2013 and were prent when the verdict was verdict may face years of appeals. It earned a Grammy nomatn and ted Williams and Thicke lns of se was a stggle between two of mic’s biggt nam: Williams has sold more than 100m rerds worldwi durg his reer as a sger-producer, and Gaye performed hs such as Sexual Healg and How Sweet It Is (To be Loved by You) rema closg arguments, Bch acced Thicke and Williams of lyg about how the song was created.

He told jurors they uld award Gaye’s children lns of dollars if they termed the pyright to Got to Give It Up was Kg, lead attorney for Williams and Thicke, told the panel that a verdict favor of the Gaye fay would have a chillg effect on micians who were tryg to recreate a genre or homage to another artist’s nied there were any substantial siari between Blurred L and the sheet mic Gaye submted to obta pyright protectn. Williams, 41, also signed a document statg he didn’t e any other artists’ work the mic and would be rponsible if a succsful pyright claim was ttified he wasn’t prent when the song was wrten, spe receivg trial foced on tailed analys of chords and not both Blurred L and Got to Give It repeatedly heard the upbeat song Blurred L and saw snippets of s mic vio, but Gaye’s mic was reprented durg the trial a ls polished form. Jurors did not hear Got to Give It Up as Gaye rerd , but rather a versn created based solely on sheet mic submted to ga pyright versn lacked many of the elements – cludg Gaye’s voice – that helped make the song a h 1977.

PHARRELL WILLIAMS: WE DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE SONG FOR "BLURRED L"

Bch risively lled the versn ed urt a “Frankenste-like monster” that didn’t accurately reprent Gaye’s expert for the Gaye fay said there were eight distct elements om Got to Give It Up that were ed Blurred L, but an expert for Williams and Thicke nied those siari died April 1984, leavg his children the pyrights to his siar are Blurred L and Got to Give Up?

PHARRELL WILLIAMS DENI MARV GAYE’S FAY’S ACCATNS OF PERJURY

The Daft Punk song “Get Lucky, ” which Williams sang on and -wrote, won the Grammy for bt pop duo/group performance and Rerd of the Year -wrote and produced Rob Thicke’s 2013 h song “Blurred L, ” but two years later, a Los Angel jury found the song had ged on the pyright of the 1977 song "Got to Give It Up” by Marv Gaye. 3 ln to Gaye’s tate, which was later rced to around $5 ln. Instead, Williams and DeGener addrsed the ntroversy that sparked when a vio of Burrell makg homophobic statements went viral.

Burrell, also a preacher at Hoton’s Love & Liberty Fellowship Church, lled homosexualy “perverted” and an embarrassment to the church a two-mute-long vio leaked earlier this week. LOS ANGELES -- Pharrell Williams told a jury Wednday that he was tryg to evoke the feel of Marv Gaye's mic but did not py the late sger's work when he crafted the 2013 h "Blurred L.

"Williams said he grew up listeng to Gaye's mic and was faiar wh his song "Got to Give It Up, " but did not e as a basis for "Blurred L, " which was a h for him and llaborators Rob Thicke and T.