Ben Crump and Keisha Rice — representing the heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye’s credited co-writer on “Let’s Get It On” — alternately called the video “a smoking gun” and “a confession” in an opening statement and subsequent examination of Sheeran.

Source: https://variety.com/2023/music/news/ed-sheeran-copyright-trial-takes-stand-thinking-out-loud-lets-get-it-on-1235595013/

Gaye’s music reaches into the deepest recesses of the human experience, touching the parts of us that are too often left to languish in silence.

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In fact, in Rolling Stone’s“The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,” Mitchell’s “Blue”is ranked at 30 and Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” at sixth — another Black artist whom Wenner deemed simply too inarticulate to be included as a master of the craft.

Source: https://dailyfreepress.com/2023/10/02/what-constitutes-a-master-dont-ask-jann-wenner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-constitutes-a-master-dont-ask-jann-wenner

The heirs said in a court filing that they received 22% of the writer’s share of Gaye’s song from Townsend.

Source: https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/502507/us-jury-sides-with-ed-sheeran-in-lets-get-it-on-copyright-trial