Lawyer claims to have ‘smoking gun proof’ Ed Sheeran copied Marvin Gaye song

Sheeran, 32, looked on as his lawyer, Ilene Farkas, said Sheeran and a co-writer, Amy Wadge, wrote their song independently and did not steal from Townsend and Gaye.

Ed Sheeran walks into Manhattan federal court on Tuesday (Brittainy Newman/AP)

There is “smoking gun proof” Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud violates the copyright of Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On, jurors have been told at the start of a civil trial.

The claim was made in New York on Tuesday by Ben Crump, lawyer for the heirs of Ed Townsend, who co-wrote Gaye’s soul classic.