The news follow each other and are not alike for the British singer Ed Sheeran.
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The musician announced Monday the dates of his very first North American tour in five years. And Montreal is not on the program.
In fact, the only Canadian stops on the “Mathematical Tour” (so nicknamed for its unpronounceable title, + – = ÷ x Turn) will be Toronto and Vancouver. Ed Sheeran will be at the Rogers Center in Toronto on June 17, 2023. For the occasion, he will be accompanied on stage by Dylan and Rosa Linn. He will take the stage at BC Place in Vancouver on September 2, along with Maisie Peters and Khalid.
Other tour dates include Philadelphia (June 3), East Rutherford, New Jersey (June 10), Foxborough, Massachusetts (1er July) and Las Vegas (September 9).
Again accused of plagiarism
On the other hand, the singer will find himself again in court in a case of plagiarism. This time, he is criticized for being a little too inspired by the play Let’s Get It On by Marvin Gaye for his song Thinking Out Loud.
The heirs of co-author Ed Townsend filed a plagiarism suit against the British star in 2016. New York District Senior Judge Louis Stanton decided last Thursday to bring Ed Sheeran to justice. The date of the hearing, scheduled for Manhattan court, has not yet been disclosed.
The plaintiffs are seeking $100 million in damages from the singer. According to the BBC, the heirs believe that Sheeran borrowed from Marvin Gaye’s 1973 play, “its melody, rhythms, harmonies, drums, bass line, chorus, tempo, syncopation and looping. All without permission or credit.
This is not Ed Sheeran’s first plagiarism trial. Recently he was accused of copying part of the melody of the song oh why by Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue for his success Shape of You. In June, however, the British courts ruled in favor of Sheeran, awarding him a large sum (1.4 million Canadian dollars) in damages.