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Has Ed Sheeran Ripped Off Live Side-Project with Blow

by Paul Cashmere on July 9, 2019

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Ed Sheeran’s new song ‘Blow’ sounds remarkably like Live side-project The Gracious Few’s ‘Honest Man’.

The Gracious Few was three members of Live, Chad Taylor, Patrick Delheimer and Chad Gracey with two members of Candlebox, Kevin Martin and Sean Henney.

Sheeran created his “new” song ‘Blow’ with Chris Stapleton and Bruno Mars. It sounds blatantly ripped off from the 2010 The Gracious Few song ‘Honest Man’.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s93NCuXt7x4



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2-e9BZZtTM

In 2018 Sheeran found himself in a similar legal predicament over Aussie Jasmine Rae’s ‘When I Found You’ and his ‘The Rest of our Life’. Rae’s songwriters Sean Carey and Beau Golden cited an almost note for note rip-off of their song. The case was settled out of court in November 2018 for an undisclosed amount.

Sheeran has also faced plagiarism charges from the estate of Marvin Gaye for similarities for his ‘Thinking Out Loud’ and Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ and for copying Matt Cardle’s Amazing’ for his our ‘Photograph’.

http://www.noise11.com/news/has-ed-sheeran...h-blow-20190709

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It does sound really similar. Also was the rif in Believe.

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Kevin Martin talking about this:

http://www.943theshark.com/2019/07/11/excl...from-candlebox/

EXCLUSIVE – Orlando chats with Kevin Martin from Candlebox!
Posted on July 11, 2019 at 8:45 am

In an almost bizarre turn of events, pop superstar Ed Sheeran is accused of ripping off a song by the Candlebox/Live offshoot band “The Gracious Few” by using a guitar riff for his song “Blow” that appears to be very similar to a the The Gracious Few song “Honest Man”.

Orlando speaks with Candlebox lead singer Kevin Martin to talk about the irony, his opinion on whether the riff is identical and who Kevin thinks came up with the “Blow” version of the guitar riff.

Kevin says TGF sold 20,000 copies of their album.