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Ed Sheeran hit, Marvin Gaye classic soul of copyright trial

Jury selection and opening statements are set to begin in a trial that mashes up Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” with Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.”

The Independent UK

Nintendo's most elusive JRPG might never come West because of Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines

We're still paying the price for Blurred Lines

GamesRadar

Blood and Honey: In Defence of the Winnie-the-Pooh Slasher Flick

Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s horror film might ruin your childhood, but it’s a win for creative freedom

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Death? Bill Nighy will worry about that later

LOS ANGELES — Bill Nighy handed me a cassette mixtape many years ago titled "Ooh Baby Ooh," a nod to the chorus of a Lou Reed rocker that was not among the 20 songs on the cassette, though there was plenty of Lou and Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield and…

Los Angeles Times

Barrett Strong: the Motown hitmaker was modest almost to a fault

Though he was quick to credit others’ contributions, Strong’s songwriting was absolutely critical to the label that remade American pop music

The Guardian - UK

Motown legend and Temptations songwriter Barrett Strong dead at 81

His writing credits included I Heard It Through the Grapevine for Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight & the Pips, the Undisputed Truth’s ‘Smiling Faces Sometimes’, ‘War’ for Edwin Starr

Daily Mirror

Rolling Stone hails Aretha Franklin as greatest singer of all time

DETROIT — Rolling Stone ranks Aretha Franklin No. 1 in its list of the "greatest singers of all time" on Sunday.

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Jan Gaye, second wife of Motown legend Marvin Gaye, is dead at 66

LOS ANGELES — Janis Hunter Gaye, the second wife of Motown legend Marvin Gaye and mother of two of his children, has died, her family said in a statement. She was 66.

Los Angeles Times

Marvin Gaye’s wife Janis Hunter Gaye dies aged 66

The singer’s wife passed away not long after the re-release of his What’s Going On album

Evening Standard

Janis Hunter Gaye: Wife of Motown singer Marvin Gaye dies at 66

Marvin Gaye wrote his 1974 song ‘Jan’ about Janis Hunter Gaye

The Independent UK

Marvin Gaye's wife Janis Hunter dies age 66 after inspiring icon's album

Music legend Marvin Gaye's second wife Janis Hunter Gaye died on Saturday at her home on Rhode Island, her family have said

Daily Mirror

Santa Claus is coming to frown! Why the best Christmas songs are sad and slow

Who says festive numbers have to be merry? Marvin Gaye’s prisoner-of-war lament is a touching treat – while Prince’s track about a guy getting over a yuletide death with banana daiquiris is the jewel of the genre

The Guardian - UK

Television Q&A: Where is the agent who's missing in action on 'FBI'?

You have questions. I have some answers.

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Harry Styles at the United Center in Chicago was a night between him and his fans

CHICAGO — On the third night of Harry Styles’ six-night residency in Chicago, as the British pop star, promising actor and spiritual scion of Mick Jagger took the stage, the United Center rattled, buzzed, seemed to implode in a white-hot screech of 23,000 screams. Every generation or so this happens.…

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The Independent UK

Ed Sheeran’s request for US copyright lawsuit to be dismissed is denied

The British musician faces accusations that parts of his track Thinking Out Loud were taken from the 1973 hit Let’s Get It On by Marvin Gaye.

The Guardian - UK

Ed Sheeran to stand trial in US over Let’s Get It On copyright complaint

Singer accused of copying his 2014 hit song Thinking Out Loud from Marvin Gaye classic

Evening Standard

Ed Sheeran faces copyright trial over claims he copied Marvin Gaye song Let’s Get It On

Six months ago Sheeran was cleared of copying for his hit song Shape Of You at a trial in London

The Guardian - UK

Spare a thought for us arachnophobes this autumn

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Lamont Dozier, Motown co-songwriter and producer of hits such as ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’ and ‘Heatwave,’ dead at 81

From 1963 to 1967, Dozier and brothers Brian and Eddie Holland crafted more than 25 top 10 songs.

The Independent UK

Motown songwriter-producer Lamont Dozier dead at 81

Motown songwriter-producer Lamont Dozier has died at age 81

The Independent UK

Martha Stewart mourns loss of six peacocks ‘devoured’ by coyotes

The 80-year-old previously had more than 20 peacocks on her farm

Salon

Six of Martha Stewart's peacocks killed

"Any solutions for getting rid of six large and aggressive coyotes who have expensive tastes?" Stewart asked

The Guardian - AU

Make breakfast with me: Amina Elshafei’s morning playlist

The MasterChef alumna talks us through some of the incredible multicultural meals she whips up every morning - and the songs she listens to as she cooks

Asharq Al-Awsat

After Sensational Trial, Johnny Depp Releases an Album

Fresh off his highly publicized, controversial defamation suit, actor Johnny Depp sought to show his creative career was back on track Friday, releasing an album with English rocker Jeff Beck. The 13-track album "18" on which Depp sings and plays guitar features mainly covers, and so far it has been…

Tribune News Service

Former A&R head Mickey Stevenson on Motown: It was a 'spiritual' movement

DETROIT — Reflecting on a legendary career with Motown Records that included finding some of its most iconic talent and shaping its sound, William "Mickey" Stevenson, its former A&R head, believes it was nothing short of a "spiritual movement."

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