The idea has since snowballed significantly, with whole companies now founded on the invention. The bonds did, however, mature and were cashed in by their owners. The plan almost tanked, due to timing - shortly after Bowie made off with his haul, the music industry descended into the Wild West of the digital era, meaning the 10-year vesting period of the bonds saw the royalties they contained drop precipitously, to possibly their lowest point ever. Pullman is the creator of the well-known-to-some 'Bowie Bonds,' a financial invention (which Pullman says he trademarked) that turned the royalties from 287 of his songs into 10-year bonds, which were sold for a total of $55 million. SAS is owned by David Pullman, who is no stranger to the music business. It's not the first suit filed against a modern hit accused of copying a song by Gaye: Robin Thicke and Pharrell's song 'Blurred Lines' was the subject of another lawsuit, over its supposed similarity to Gaye's 1977 hit 'Got to Give It Up.' Thicke and Pharrell lost that case (and $5.3 million through its judgement) in a ruling that many considered controversial - the pair's appeal, which was largely denied, drew support from over 200 musicians. Many listeners will not recognize that Frank Sinatra sang 'My Way' in D major, while Elvis Presley sang that song in C major it is clearly the same song despite the difference in key.' This track is sometimes incorrectly labeled 'Sunshine,' a piece which later became a section of 'Matilda Mother.' One Floyd prosopography claims that this recording is over fifteen minutes in length.

listeners will hear the two progressions as functionally equivalent. The songs first 90 seconds of the recording is available on various bootlegs. The new suit includes detailed explanations of music theory in order to explain the songs' supposed similarities - 'In Gaye's song, this chord progression within the backing pattern occurs in the key of E flat, and in Sheeran's song the progression occurs in D major.

Marvin Gaye in All Saint's Road, London in 1976.

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