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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’.

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[Pingfah]

It's similar, and while Honest Man is a good song, it's not a standout riff, it's pretty generic rock stuff that you could easily imagine someone else coming up with without having copied it.

In any case I don't believe artists should sue each other over this stuff. If a whole song is obviously stolen that's one thing, but imagine if every blues artist, or every painter or writer sued everytime somebody used their stuff as the inspiration for a new piece of art. We wouldn't have a rock scene at all if musicians had historically behaved like that.

[Merica]

It's similar, and while Honest Man is a good song, it's not a standout riff, it's pretty generic rock stuff that you could easily imagine someone else coming up with without having copied it.

In any case I don't believe artists should sue each other over this stuff. If a whole song is obviously stolen that's one thing, but imagine if every blues artist, or every painter or writer sued everytime somebody used their stuff as the inspiration for a new piece of art. We wouldn't have a rock scene at all if musicians had historically behaved like that.

Must admit I've always thought that the Honest Man riff sounds like the kind of thing someone who's just starting out on guitar would come up with.

[Costakoui]

Must admit I've always thought that the Honest Man riff sounds like the kind of thing someone who's just starting out on guitar would come up with.

Ok, then the rock music should be full of this same riff. I have not listened to any other songs which have this riff except Honest Man and Blow.

[LiveForNow]

Ok, then the rock music should be full of this same riff. I have not listened to any other songs which have this riff except Honest Man and Blow.

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