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"Let's Get It On" is a hit song by soul artist Marvin Gaye released on June 15, 1973 by Tamla Records. The song is dominated by a sensual and romantic mood, which is complemented by a funky sound, for which the band The Funk Brothers is responsible. The song "Let's Get It On" on comes from the artist's album of the same name and is undoubtedly one of the most famous in the singer's entire oeuvre. Thanks to its sexual nature, the song has gained a lot of popularity, and Gaye himself has been considered a sex symbol.
The song was written by Marvin Gaye and producer Ed Townsend, who had been released from alcohol rehab moments earlier and wrote it under the influence of strong religious experiences. Marvin Gaye changed some of the words, which consequently led to the fact that the song is about love and desire that exists between two people in love. "Let's Get It On" remains to this day one of the most popular singles by Motown Records and Gaye himself. On September 8, 1973, the song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Pop Singles and Billboard Soul Singles charts. Within the first two weeks of its presence on radio stations, more than two million copies of the release were sold.
On August 10, 2016, the family of one of the authors, Ed Townsend, sued Eda Sheerana for plagiarism. They believed that his song "Thinking Out Loud" was melodically, harmonically and rhythmically similar, while the drum composition itself was strikingly similar. The case was dismissed in 2017, but two years later Ed Sheeran was sued again, but this time by the owners of part of the song's copyright, for similar reasons. He was demanded to pay damages of 100 million US.