A musicologist testified that Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” and Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” “sound very, very similar” in the copyright infringement trial against Sheeran.
However, the testimony was overshadowed in part when Kathryn Townsend Griffin — the daughter of the late “Let’s Get It On” co-writer Ed Townsend, whose estate is suing Sheeran — collapsed in court during the defense’s cross-examination of music expert Dr. Alexander Stewart, a witness for the plaintiff.
On the stand, Stewart told the court that the two songs share a similar chord progression and “have the same harmonic rhythm” when it comes to the verses, choruses, and interlude,Using a computer-generated version of “Let’s Get It On” to compare to the sheet music of “Thinking Out Loud,” Stewart testified that the two songs shared a 70-percent “musical value,” although Sheeran’s defense pushed back on the sheet music that Stewart used to conduct his test, arguing that it was altered.
Minutes into the defense’s questioning of Stewart, Townsend Griffin suffered her medical emergency, with members of both the plaintiffs’ and defense team helping her out of the courtroom. Townsend Griffin was then transported to a New York hospital. Court resumed after a 15-minute break, though members of Townsend Griffin’s family were not in attendance. Cross-examination of Stewart will continue Thursday. Sheeran, whowhen called by the plaintiffs, is expected to testify in his own defense later in the week.
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