Off Topic Ed Sheeran vs Marvin Gaye

Anybody else think this song is bugger-all like Marvin Gaye's Let's Get it On?

I'm not a big Ed Sheeran fan but I just cannot hear the grounds for this legal case.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46754883

 

I thought Ed Sheeran v Marvin Gaye was a comparison. To which the answer is no contest.

Why the writers of the Turtles She'd Rather Be With Me writers of Born With Smile On My Face is a mystery.
Pissed myself laughing in a pub in Leeds in the 1960s when the Turtles came on and a Leeds fan said "listen to that, those ****s have nicked our song". He seemed to think that la, la, la,la, la we're gonna win the Football League, la, la, la...was a Leeds original.
Almost as good as the outrage on the FC forum a few years back about Wigan picking "their song. "Their" song being the one that begins " Oh me lads you should have seen their faces..." and ends with "to see the FC aces.

 

Same here.

 

I was always a bit fan of Them from the first time I heard them. But always though this album track of theirs bore a bit of resemblance to the Animals single.

 

See what you mean but when you think that most pop songs consist of probably no more than 3 or 4 chords it's hardly surprising some similarities crop up from time to time but it's a sorry state of affairs when it descends into squalid multi-million dollar legal feuds.

 

The riff is exactly the same. The song itself is completely different.

 

Think of how many who have used this riff off a favourite of mine.

 

There's something, but it's not Noel Gallagher levels of obvious.

Nowt wrong.

 

To me Oasis were more of a feel of the Beatles than actually copying them.

 

The Beatles Taxman = The Jam Start
Elvis Costello Oliver's Army = Abba Dancing Queen. The list is endless.

There's nothing wrong with pinching a riff, absolutely everyone does it.

I suppose it just comes down to whether the owners of the original copyright want to be **** or not.

 

Agreed. If anyone thinks making the records Oasis made is easy.

Well go ahead and try it

 

Intro of this by Paul Heaton and Jackie Abbott always reminded me of The Liquidator.

 

The Sex Pistols said they copied an ABBA Riff.

Eric Clapton was an admirer of the lead guitarist of the Lovin' Spoonful, one of my favourite bands and said he nicked a riff off him for one of their songs. I have albums of the Cream and Lovin' Spoonful with both tracks on and to be honest never made a connection. My ear for music obviously as good as Claoton's. Or anything else as far as music goes.

 

Some think the Beatles weren't very good and made simple records anyone could have done. I wonder why don't give it a try and make a fortune selling hundreds of millions of records which are still played over 50 years later.

 

Exactly

 

True, but he lifted stuff from various different artists other than The Beatles - T.Rex, The New Seekers, Neil Innes, The Faces, Herb Alpert, The La's, Gary Glitter, Stevie Wonder among others.

 

This is my favourite.

Led Zeppelin, Who'll lotta love.

The Small Faces, You need loving.

Muddy Waters, You need love.

Check em out, they're all the same song.

The Song Remains the Same

 

As I said in another post last week, Oasis have reason to be grateful to this lot. The bloke who founded Creation records was a big fan and named it after them. He signed Oasis as he thought they were similar.(Can't see it myself, mind).
One of the best double sides ever in my opinion. First guitarist to use a violin bow on a guitar. Saw them the night I left college as they were the headline act. Nearly every local band member turned up to see them.
Itonically the singer of this hip band made the most money from co-writing credits with the ultra cool Herbie Flowers who played the iconic bass on Lou Reed's Walk On The Wild Side, for Clive Dunn's "Grandad".