Ed Sheeran gets musical with a New York jury amid copyright lawsuit

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Ed Sheeran sang a few lyrics from one of his songs and played a few chords on a guitar in a packed New York courtroom on Thursday, with a jury deciding on whether the song violates the copyrights of Marvin Gaye’s soul classic Let’s Get It On.

Sheeran was an hour into testimony in Manhattan federal court when his lawyer, Ilene Farkas, pressed him to tell how he came to write Thinking Out Loud a decade ago.