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.
Ed Townsend estate withdraws from Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’ plagiarism case
nme.comEd Sheeran plagiarism lawsuit that was first filed in 2016 and was seemingly put to rest in May with Sheeran being awarded the victory.In May, Sheeran was declared not guilty of plagiarism in a case filed by heirs of Ed Townsend in 2016 over the estate’s claims that the ‘Thinking Out Loud’ singer copied Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’.Following the verdict, Townsend’s heirs announced their intent to appeal for a re-trial.
Now, however, it has been revealed according to court documents that the estate has withdrawn its appeal, making it such that it will be unable to refile the case at a later date, giving Ed Sheeran a definitive win in the case.Reuters has also confirmed the withdrawal, with Ed Sheeran’s lawyer Ilene Farkas telling the publication that Townsend’s estate “recognized that an appeal would end up with the verdict being affirmed but also with them being exposed to legal fees and costs, and wisely withdrew.”Sheeran told reporters outside court in May following the verdict: “I am obviously very happy with the outcome of the case and it looks like I am not having to retire from my day job after all.
But at the same time I’m unbelievably frustrated that baseless claims like this are allowed to go to court at all.”Following the verdict in May, Sheeran released his latest album, ‘-‘ (“subtract”).
The album scored a three-star review from Nick Levine for NME. Levine wrote: “Most of ‘-’ is doggedly one-paced, an often drawback of Dessner’s mellow production stylings.
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