'I'd be an idiot to do that': Ed Sheeran takes the stand in copyright infringement trial
Ed Sheeran insisted he'd be "an idiot" to perform a mash up of 'Thinking Out Loud' and Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get it On' if he'd ripped off the latter song. The 32-year-old singer took the stand in a New York federal court on Tuesday (25.04.23) to defend himself in the copyright infringement case brought by the heirs of late songwriter Ed Townsend, who co-wrote the classic soul hit, and insisted the 2014 concert footage of him singing the two tracks was not the "smoking gun" that the lawyers of Kathryn Griffin Townsend claimed it to be. He said: "You could go from 'Let it Be' to 'No Woman, No Cr...