Changing times: Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran is currently Britain’s biggest music success story.
His album X has sold more than a million copies in the UK alone, he’s up for four Brit Awards and three Grammys and is playing three huge Wembley Stadium gigs this summer.
Oh and the Yorkshire-born chart-topper is also mates with Taylor Swift, Elton Johnand half the celebrity world.
Not bad for a someone who began, in his own words, as “a really geeky ginger kid with spectacles and a massive guitar”.
Here in an exclusive extract from his new book Ed Sheeran: A Visual Journey, the 23-year-old singer-songwriter reveals how he made it to the top after an early life as a school truant and sleeping on the London Underground...
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Mum and Dad made sure they stimulated us rather than leaving us to our own devices.
For years we didn’t have terrestrial TV in our house.
We didn’t even have a TV licence because my mum didn’t want us to be sat in front of the TV all the time.
Instead, we’d watch one video a day – maybe Blackadder or Pingu – then go off and do something else, like draw, paint or play music.
We didn’t own a video games console and I honestly think that was one of the best things my mum never did.
So all the time that my friends were playing Grand Theft Auto, I was sat there practising the guitar over and over and over again.
To this day, I don’t know what to do on an Xbox or a PlayStation.
The times are a changing
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