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Free Ed Sheeran! Songwriters Explain Why the 'Let's Get It On' Case Was a Near-Disaster

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The Rules Have Changed

In advance of it, like Tom Petty, I went to them with my co-writer and we said, we have been told that this has a familiar vibe to what it is. So at the time, he was like, if I were you, I would go and approach the Nina Simone estate and talk about it with them before you put the record out. Instantly, we got an email back. We're 50%, thank you. And they went, cool, done. No one ever would have thought about that in 1978. The rules have changed. But also, Ed's just got off because the main part of the defense was the guys who wrote Let's Get It On took

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