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.
One of the parties suing Ed Sheeran over allegations he ripped off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ has filed a new lawsuit accusing Ed Sheeran of, well, ripping off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’.
Why sue twice over the same song-theft claim? Well, to see if a sneaky trick can overcome a copyright technicality that could scupper their chances of winning lawsuit number one.Back in 2016 the heirs of ‘Let’s Get It On’ co-writer Ed Townsend sued Sheeran through the US courts over allegations that he had ripped off the “melody, harmony and rhythm compositions” of the Gaye classic on his 2014 record ‘Thinking Out Loud’.
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