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...At the time, Williams warned that the verdict would “handicap” musicians. Williams and Thicke were ordered to pay $5mn to Gaye’s estate, as well as ongoing royalties....
...Thursday will be an important moment for Hafize Gaye Erkan, Turkey’s new central bank chief, when she announces the country’s next interest rate move. It could be one of the bank’s biggest-ever pivots....
...On Boxing Day of 1973, the day of Christmas jumper-wearing and tired wind-down, Warner Bros decided to release William Friedkin’s The Exorcist to the American public....
...Its makers, Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, were judged to have copied the feel or groove of a song by Marvin Gaye (him again) — a looser definition of plagiarism....
...The Gaye family was awarded $5m and half of future royalties....
...Even so, the police will somehow amass a database of fans of “I Shot The Sheriff”, and Pampers will contact everyone listening to Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On”....
...The repertoire was soul-derived — from Marvin Gaye and Prince to Pharrell Williams and James Brown, with “We Are Family” as an encore-winning set closer....
...It enables Williams to pack in a huge amount of exposition, as the sisters step out of the action between scenes to narrate their (often conflicting) accounts of their lives with Gaye; at the same time it...
...Indian landscapes by Thomas and William Daniell share wall space with Japanese medieval drawings, though paintings by Maya predominate....
...Last year’s US court decision awarding the estate of soul singer Marvin Gaye $7.4m (reduced to $5.3m) in a copyright infringement case against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, makers of the worldwide...
...Neither Messrs Williams nor Thicke denied being inspired by Marvin Gaye....
...A federal court in Los Angeles ordered Mr Williams and the singer Robin Thicke to pay damages of $7.3m to the Gaye estate after studying the two songs....
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...liberally from the late Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up” and awarded his survivors more than $7m....
..."The verdict handicaps any creator out there who is making something that might be inspired by something else," said Williams. (FT) It's a big day for The Guardian, which names its new editor today....
...“The verdict handicaps any creator out there who is making something that might be inspired by something else,” said Williams. (FT) It’s a big day for The Guardian, which names its new editor today....
...For example, one of Newman’s mash-ups blends Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” with roots reggae from Johnny Osbourne. Some DJs throw dozens of tracks into a mix. Others extend the practice to videos....
...“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”, Andy Williams tells Americans …every holiday season. Our stocking of festive sentiment is stuffed with song....
...As a teenager, she won a talent contest and was asked by William “Mickey” Stevenson, a producer and songwriter for Hitsville USA, as Motown’s studio was known, to audition....
...Veteran crooner Andy Williams, who has just turned 80, had a “new” top 30 hit with “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of The Year” in the employ of Marks & Spencer....
...“I remember Andy Williams ringing me up in the early 1970s....
...The record label, which owns the largest catalogue of songs in the world, including Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”, said that “as part of its objective to optimise its balance sheet, the...
...Rhoden makes no bones about his theatre leanings in choreographing these 16 Marvin Gaye songs, intended to be a full evening work at some time in the future....
...Urban renaissance is now in full swing, for which the former mayor Tony Williams deserves much credit....
...On the one hand, we love those things that deliver immediate sensory reward, and demand little self-analysis: glossy Hollywood thrillers with George Clooney; the great Romantic ballets; Marvin Gaye songs...
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