Fresh from his victory in the most recent copyright infringement case to be brought against him - this time by the heirs of the co-writer of Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On - Ed Sheeran has been demonstrating to Howard Stern how he tried to convince the jury that the chord sequence used in his song Thinking Out Loud should be “unprotectable” by playing his guitar.
In the clip above, Sheeran begins by playing and singing Thinking Out Loud, which uses the I - iii - IV - V chord progression in the key of D. He then segues directly into other songs - the likes of Van Morrison’s Have I Told You Lately, The Temptations’ My Girl and Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One - in a bid to make it clear that Let’s Get It On is far from the only other song to use it.
