in what s expected to be one of the biggest all british heavyweight fights in boxing history. now on bbc news, musician ed sheeran speaks exclusively about his shape of you copyright lawsuit. # so you can keep me # inside the pocket of your ripped jeans.#. ed sheeran faced claims that his 2015 song photograph was strikingly similar to the song amazing by x factor winner matt cardle. sheeran settled out of court without admitting any guilt. by the time he d become the uk s leading male recording artist, he d released three of the top ten best selling albums of the last decade in the uk. # i m in love with your body.#. and his 2017 song shape of you, co written with his regular songwriting partnersjohnny mcdaid and steve mac, remains the most streamed song on spotify ever, with over three billion streams to date. but the song led to another lawsuit for sheeran. this time, the grime artist sami chokri claimed that sheeran had borrowed a refrain from chokri s song 0h why for shap
yeah, you described it as like rocket science, only more complicated. yeah, well. that s going to follow you around forever. yeah, sometimes you say something and then, you know, time machine and all. # i m in love with your body #. i m in love with your body.#. but the making of that song, tell me if i m wrong, but it was like an hour and a half, is that right? it was a relatively short period of one day. yeah. and i think a lot of what the case boiled down to with this is not people not believing that i could write a song in an hour and a half. but what i wanted to say is, like, i work every day at my craft, every day to be able to do a song in an hour and a half, and we write multiple songs. we actually bookended the case with two studio sessions with me, johnny and steve, where we just wrote as many songs as possible. in the first day, we did five and the last day we did three, and those are not uncommon days for us.
around how creative it is, how kinetic it is, and dynamic, and it isn t that prescriptive. so when we get to show that, then people are able to have an insight into how unique creation might happen. yeah, you described it as like rocket science only more complicated. yeah, well. that s going to follow you around forever. yeah, sometimes you say something and then, you know, time machine and all. # i m in love with your body.#. but the making of that song, tell me if i m wrong, but it was like an hour and a half, is that right? it was a relatively short period of one day. yeah. and i think a lot of what the case boiled down to with this is people not believing that i could write a song in an hour and a half. but what i wanted to say is, like, i work every day at my craft, every day to be able to do a song in an hour and a half, and we write multiple songs. we actually bookended the case with two studio sessions with me, johnny and steve, where we just
yeah, sometimes you say something and then, you know, time machine and all. # i m in love with your body.#. but the making of that song, tell me if i m wrong, but it was like an hour and a half, is that right? it was a relatively short period of one day. yeah. and i think a lot of a lot of what the case boiled down to with this is not people not believing that i could write a song in an hour and a half. but what i wanted to say is, like, i work every day at my craft, every day to be able to do a song in an hour and a half, and we write multiple songs. we actually bookended the case with two studio sessions with me, johnny and steve, where we just wrote as many songs as possible. in the first day, we did five and the last day we did three, and those are not uncommon days for us. it would actually be a weird day if we just wrote one. like, that would be an odd day. and i think, you know, you ve done you ve said you ve worked at newsnight for 30 years and you can you contacted us about th