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Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/arts/music/ed-sheeran-marvin-gaye-copyright-trial-verdict.html?unlocked_article_code=fw3o20mOPUXLDozxMap5yQui3rq75
by shagie 4y ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/arts/music/ed-sheeran-marvin-gaye-copyright-trial-verdict.html?unlocked_article_code=fw3o20mOPUXLDozxMap5yQui3rq75ZZiS_lVlO3W6T8FpE1vFkA9mL-vFggpXT1xzwS1jkN2cbJFeVprgPLpZZZIyWUytCVI3rKCrAjqp3ntab0yP_Cwe3sBTrZwE7e_XUQ0S02JyZet2zH_Z9MAGpngVBEVZNcEjnVcCV7AQifHovMFxP7ZXNTWJPPfTO70x2IZCV7vAp_Huwg6nZ9WwIwapyQm0x675VKOw0u-rEYJLzKMGEkluHPYRYACw00j8Wc57G7cXrkRthleNX558W5lqZ9EowlBbO1I3oTf1LI4VcorU-fcdPjMWiMBJhlQRyUbiphYfhfbWExJl8DsYWBkT5ru4-jEHLYiXeHuzFwPXqcXffpYTZWn8Q&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/arts/music/ed-sheeran-mar...
My favorite part from it:
> “We have spent the last eight years talking about two songs with dramatically different lyrics, melodies and four chords which are also different and used by songwriters every day, all over the world,” Mr. Sheeran continued. “These chords are common building blocks which were used to create music long before ‘Let’s Get It On’ was written and will be used to make music long after we are all gone.”
From a different article about the trial: https://www.newser.com/story/334575/ed-sheeran-sings-plays-guitar-in-court.html https://www.newser.com/story/334575/ed-sheeran-sings-plays-g...
> Before Sheeran’s Thursday testimony, his defense played a video of Australian comedy band Axis of Awesome performing a medley of dozens of songs with the same four chords.
The video: https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I
- x0x0 4y agoThat youtube video from Axis of Comedy is amazing; they go through 38 songs from bands as diverse as Journey, Elton John, U2, the Beatles, Bob Marley, Green Day, Aqua, and Beyonce.
- Maursault 4y ago> That youtube video from Axis of Comedy is amazing; they go through 38 songs from bands as diverse as Journey, Elton John, U2, the Beatles, Bob Marley, Green Day, Aqua, and Beyonce. What's amazing is how they somehow failed to identify the original piece and its composer, i.e. Canon in D Major, P 37, by Johann Pachelbel.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Af372EQLck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Af372EQLck
- wodenokoto 4y agoI thought you’d link to pachelbel’s rant, which is a funny standup music rant about how the canon is everywhere https://youtu.be/uxC1fPE1QEE https://youtu.be/uxC1fPE1QEE
- cafard 4y agoPeter Schickele once invented the classical music station WTWP--Wall-to-Wall Pachelbel.
- shagie 4y agoHeh... PDQ Bach album. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTWP_Classical_Talkity-Talk_Radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTWP_Classical_Talkity-Talk_Ra... > Towards the middle of the repeat of the Canon, Blondie suffers a nervous breakdown, being the result of an overdose of Pachebel. It's available via Streaming: Amazon https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BLXWCHQS https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BLXWCHQS Apple Music https://music.apple.com/us/album/p-d-q-bach-classical-wtwp-talkity-talk-radio/1653876253 https://music.apple.com/us/album/p-d-q-bach-classical-wtwp-t... Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/5gLmlAeNfrfzJJffMbdM3V?si=aiKEvpwcTFCmFK_A16GQ5A https://open.spotify.com/album/5gLmlAeNfrfzJJffMbdM3V?si=aiK... (And a YouTube channel with it: https://youtu.be/x6qbIGJwuqw https://youtu.be/x6qbIGJwuqw )
- tshaddox 4y agoCanon in D is a rather different chord progression that is twice as long as the I–V–vi–IV and is quite divergent after the first 3 chords which the progressions have in common.
- shagie 4y agoDigging a bit, there a number of different recordings of them playing in different situations and the song does involve. The start and the end are the same, but the middle changes. https://youtu.be/_rvmf6YlyNE https://youtu.be/_rvmf6YlyNE and https://youtu.be/Z0IUdjMcEmo https://youtu.be/Z0IUdjMcEmo being two examples.