Ed Sheeran says he’d never heard Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ until he watched ‘Austin Powers’ amid accusations he copied the track on ‘Thinking Out Loud’

Ed Sheeran took to the stand for the first time in his copyright trial for his hit song “Thinking Out Loud.” The heirs of Ed Townsend, who cowrote Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On,” are suing Sheeran, alleging that his 2014 song has “striking similarities” to Gaye’s classic.