British singer Ed Sheeran has been recorded singing a song in the New York neighborhood of Soho, in southern Manhattan, where the artist was acquitted the day before by a jury of having partially plagiarized the progression of his song "Thinking Out Loud" of chords of the song "Let´s get it on", by Marvin Gaye.
"Can I sing you a song before I go?", the UK artist is heard saying, standing on a parked vehicle, before performing one of his songs accompanied by his guitar.
Sheeran had been sued by the estate of Ed Townsend, co-author of the Marvin Gaye song, in a lawsuit dating back to 2017, in which Sheeran even said that he would retire from music if the plaintiffs won the case.
During the two weeks that the trial lasted, Ed Sheeran took a guitar to interpret before the jury the song that was the subject of controversy, in a privileged acoustic performance with which he apparently managed to convince them that there had been no copy in the "chord progression". .
Walking out of court, Ed Sheeran read a written statement in which he proclaimed that he feels "just a guy with a guitar who loves to write music for people to enjoy", adding: "I am not and I will never allow myself be a piggy bank (piggy bank) that anyone comes to shake".
Sheeran is about to release his new album and begin a US tour as part of his "Mathematics" world tour, which he skipped including a stop in New York.
It plans to offer twenty concerts in the United States and Canada between May 6 (Arlington, Texas) and September 23 (Inglewood, California), with two forays into Canada, on June 17 (Toronto) and September 2. (Vancouver) to promote his album "=",
Sheeran included "Thinking Out Loud" on his "X" album, which has sold millions of copies.
The singer already won another similar trial in the United Kingdom in March last year for violation of "copyright" in his song "Shape of you".
On his Twitter account, the singer wrote last year: "The coincidence is bound to happen. If 60,000 songs are posted on Spotify every day, that's 22 million songs a year. There are only 12 notes available."
