Old phone

Yesterday I wrote about how Ed Sheeran stopped using his phone back in 2015. There’s a second half to that story he told at the concert. A few years ago, Ed was sued over “Thinking Out Loud.” The family of Marvin Gaye’s co-writer accused him of copying the feel of an old hit – “Let’s Get It On.” He talked about what it’s like to live through something like that said something true about court cases. You lose when you lose, and you also lose when you win, because of everything the fight takes out of you along the way. His ran for the better part of a decade. He decided to fight it because the claim was that he’d copied a chord progression. And you cannot own a chord progression. They’re the building blocks of songs, used in hundreds of them, free for everyone to reach for. It mattered so much to him that he said he’d have walked away from music for good if he’d lost. And, to make his point, he played many songs before and after “Let’s Get It On” that all use the same chord to the grand…