From the witness stand, Sheeran used his guitar to perform a "mashup" of acoustic renditions of songs by other artists, including Nina Simone, Bill Withers, Blackstreet and Van Morrison, as well as some of his own. The demonstration intended to show how Sheeran can easily transition between ...
s heirsallegedthat Sheeran had copied elements of the older song for use in “Thinking Out Loud,” which Sheeran denied. During the 2023 trial, he and his defense noted that the similarchord progressionin both songs was common and found in many other songs, including some that predated “...
Was so fun finding so many artists to make remixes of it, one of my fav things I did in 20227. I wanted to make this playlist of songs that almost didn’t make it coz its fun to tell stories around songs. I often find songs become big and people like them, but they have their...
Ed Sheeran talks about writing songs for One Direction, but admits that he would have to work with them one-on-one, not as a group.
(To this day, the Pogues' version of the song is the walk-on music for Salford City FC.) But the 1949 folk song is associated with many Irish artists, including The Dubliners and U2, and it's especially poignant to listen to this year after the death of Pogues' frontman Shane Mac...
This song had uncanny timing. Artists JP Saxe and Julia Michaels released this song in Oct. 2019, just six months before the pandemic hit — when the world certainly changed. The song is about an estranged former couple who wonders if the other would still check on them in a life or dea...
The Compton-born rapper (who was born Kendrick Lamar Duckworth) wasn't always championed as King Kendrick. In hip-hop, artists have to earn that moniker, and Lamar's enthroning occurred in 2013 when he delivered anow-infamous verseon Big Sean's "Control." ...
Ed Sheeran is a beloved singer-songwriter, but there was a time he wasn't feeling all that loved at all. It was when he was dating singer Ellie Goulding, who was apparently also spending time with One Direction's Niall Horan. Sheeran was clearly quite displeased when he wrote lyrics...
This wasJohn Denver’s only hit in the UK, as most of his other famous tracks had been covered by other artists. It was written as an ode to Denver’s wife at the time, Annie Martell Denver, and he wrote it in in about ten-and-a-half minutes on a ski lift to the top of Ajax...
"I know I should have thought twice before I kissed her" in the opening, you know you're in for a sleigh ride like none other. It's therefore no surprise thatCyndi Lauperand Swedish rock band the Hives' unconventional Christmas duel describes many marital hiccups that might make some ...