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Post by Admin on Mar 9, 2022 14:28:06 GMT
Ed Sheeran appears at the High Court on a legal dispute over Shape Of You | 5 News 3,009 views • Mar 9, 2022 • ► Have you subscribed to 5 News?: bit.ly/5NewsSub ► Of all the venues Ed Sheeran has played, today's surely had to be the most unusual. Dressed in shirt and tie, the pop megastar regularly burst into song, for the benefit of those present at the High Court. He's been explaining his songwriting technique, on the second day of a a legal dispute over his hit Shape of You. It's claimed he ripped off part of another track.
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Post by Admin on Mar 10, 2022 2:11:49 GMT
Snow Patrol's Johnny McDaid has described the idea of stealing other people's work as "abhorrent", during the copyright trial over a song he wrote with Ed Sheeran. Sheeran, McDaid and co-writer Steve Mac have been accused of taking "particular lines and phrases" for the song Shape Of You from a track called Oh Why, by an artist called Sami Switch. In written evidence, McDaid said he could not recall ever hearing Oh Why "in any way" and was unaware of Sami Switch before the legal case began. The musician is more well-known to the public as Johnny McDaid, but in the court papers he is named as John. He has written hits for Pink, BTS, Alicia Keys and Rag'n'Bone Man, added that he would never take credit for another writer's work. Oh Why was written by Ross O'Donoghue and Sami Switch, under his real name Sami Chokri, in 2015. The pair claim that Sheeran stole their hook for the post-chorus of Shape Of You, changing the lyrics to "oh I, oh I, oh I".
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Post by Admin on Mar 10, 2022 22:15:52 GMT
Ed Sheeran has serenaded London's High Court in an attempt to prove he did not copy portions of his 2017 hit Shape of You from another artist. The star is accused of lifting his song's "Oh I, oh I, oh I" hook from Sami Chokri's 2015 single Oh Why. In court, he sang elements of Nina Simone's Feeling Good and Blackstreet's No Diggity to illustrate how the melody is commonplace in pop music. "If you put them all in the same key, they'll sound the same," he explained. Sheeran denies having heard Mr Chokri's song and rejected the suggestion that friends might have played it to him before he wrote Shape of You in October 2016. His upbeat pop track became 2017's best-selling single and remains the most-played song of all time on Spotify. Lawyers for the pair played the court excerpts from the Shape of You recording sessions as they built their case. In one recording, Sheeran could be heard saying he needed to change the "oh I" melody because it was "a bit close to the bone". "We thought it was a bit too close to a song called No Diggity by Blackstreet," the star told the court. "I said that... we should change it." Andrew Sutcliffe QC, representing Mr Chokri and Mr O'Donoghue, asked: "It was a phrase you already had in your head after listening to the chorus of Sam's song, wasn't it?" "No," Sheeran replied. The singer was also accused of being an "obsessive music squirrel" who consumed music "voraciously" and would have been aware of Mr Chokri's music. "I'm a music fan, I like music, I listen to music," Sheeran said. But he insisted he had "disappeared for the whole year" in 2016 and was "not plugged in" to the UK music scene. Asked whether his final melody bore a similarity to Chokri's song, he added: "Fundamentally, yes. They are based around the minor pentatonic scale [and] they both have vowels in them."
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Post by Admin on Mar 11, 2022 21:08:55 GMT
Ed Sheeran - Leave Your Life (Radio 2 Piano Room) 14,826 views Mar 9, 2022 Hear more of this on BBC Sounds -
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Post by Admin on Mar 16, 2022 20:18:03 GMT
Ed Sheeran "belittled" a songwriter who accused him of stealing one of his songs, London's High Court has heard. Sami Chokri says he was hurt by the tone of Sheeran's lawyers' emails after he noticed similarities between his song Oh Why and Sheeran's Shape Of You. "I feel like I've been robbed by someone I respect, or respected," he told the court. "This is years of a cloud over my head. All I heard and read was emails belittling me and my questions." He continued: "All I wanted to do was ask for an explanation. If I'd had one we wouldn't have had to go through with this rubbish." He later called the trial "the most horrible few weeks of my life". ' eyes' "I was a passenger in my girlfriend's car and Shape Of You came on the radio," he wrote. "She and I were both shocked to hear the similarities. Mr Chokri later put out a Facebook post saying, "Anyone else think Ed Sheeran's new song Shape Of You chorus sounds familiar ?" "I had lots of responses," he said, including one from Sheeran's friend Jamal Edwards featuring the " eyes" emoji - which was later deleted. "I thought maybe he had played a part in showing [my song] to Ed," Mr Chokri told the court. "I had no reason to ever consider it coming to circumstances like these." Before his death last month, Mr Edwards gave a written statement in which he denied playing Oh Why to Sheeran. "Even if I was sent a copy, I did not share it with Ed," he wrote. "I respect what Jamal says," Mr Chokri responded in court, "but I also believe that Jamal would share music with Ed Sheeran."
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