at Madison Square Garden

dropped two albums, 14 ep's and 24 singles

what can we say we found love when we first heard the stunning voice and

beautiful lyrics of Ed Sheeran

but a lot happened before he took his guitar and lyrics international

it's time to take it back now because this is the

evolution of Ed Sheeran

Edward Christopher Sheeran was born in Hebden Bridge a market town in Calderdale

near halifax west yorkshire baby Ed moved with his older brother Matthew and

parents John and Imogen to Framlingham in Suffolk

art ran in Eds blood, his father a lecturer and art curator and Mom a jewelry designer

after working as a culture publicist

by 4 Ed was singing his heart out in a local church choir

and also learned how to play guitar at a young age

yeah he was an impressive kid but also pretty weird, that is according to him

I was a weird kid one of the things well now what if that works for you and I was

really strange i didn't have many friends from school

stop it but the popular kids in private school and now i'm not really doing that

well it's not funny how that turns out like that

yeah it's good it's good it's good I think if you're a weird kid you grow up

to be an interesting adult

by the time he was attending Thomas mills high school

Ed was writing songs, he released his first collection of tunes Spinning Man in 2004

it could have been the influence of friend michael david rosenberg

or as you may know him now, Passenger

who he's been buddies with since she was 15

to think what the friendship would one day amount to

I like the way you work it

no diggity

I've got bag it up - bag it up now

I like the way you work it

No Diggity, Ive got to bag it up

she's got class and style and balanced by the pound

shorty never act wild, very low key on the profile

catching feelings is a no let me tell you how it go

herb's the word, spin's the verb lovers in curves so freak what ya heard

at 16, Ed dropped out and moved to London

it was an interesting time for Ed

I moved out of home at 16 and I've been on the road

for almost 10 years now I've sampled everything you need to sample

like, I'm good

while in London, he played small venues in attempts to chase a music career

do you let me be

as if I wasn't there

perfect the concept from any regrets

not another couple based on teen sex I was just like you we couldn't be torn

apart you see we were just like glue

and its you

according to Ed it was this time in London that he want to turn back time to

the first year of living in London and doing a gig doing gigs there just

because I just got out of school and the girl that most the songs are about on the record

i was with her at the time and that was just like probably one of the best years

on his route to making it big in music he even tried his hand at acting

auditioning for ITV's Britannia High

40 of you standing here

from all the best drama schools and stage school throughout the country

what we need the people that can be stars on the television stars in the pop

charts and stars in arenas

in 2010 Ed went on sbtv

down break it down thinking of making a new sound playing for sbtv for the new

crowd that's you know child seems the thumb is great now you see me do is

focus as I sing to you loud, no i cant

no I wont hush, I say the words and make you blush

which got him the attention of rapper example

you know its finger lickin and I'm gonna pass it over to example

he's gonna freestyle and he's gonna show you how he do

chicken wings they're my favorite things and I love to sing

I say chicken

chicken wing

if you give me them I will eat them tings, yo

he dropped his EP Loose Change in the same month

which ended up paying off in ways he couldn't have imagined

considering it was the EP that featured that little single we like to call the eighteen

cool girl, no phone

they say, she's in the class eighteen

stuck in her daydream

been this way since eighteen, but lately her

face seems slowly sinking, wasting

crumbling like pastries

they scream, the worst things in life come free to us

cause we're just, under the upper hand

I'll go mad for a couple grams

but she don't wanna go outside, tonight

by April that year Sheeran had bought a ticket to LA with zero contacts

and ended up staying on Jamie Foxx's couch

I didn't get off the plane and get a cab to his house though like it was, it

was a bit of a different situation I'd already lived on different people's couches

for about a month before that

and how did you guys cross paths?

through the sirius XM radio show i met his manager when i played his venue the fox hole

his manager was like come on the show

so I did the show and then he gave me his email and yeah

there was some dodgyness as well

involving some other people so i had to escape that which is why i went to his house

it was with his 2011 EP number 5 collaborations project that caught the eye

of his future manager Elton John the EP gained him massive mainstream success

without any promotion or label selling over seven thousand copies in its first

week

reaching number two on itunes three months after the EP's release over 1,000

fans turned up to ed's free show at the bar fly in camden town

he signed with Asylum Records a month later

in September of that year

Ed dropped his debut album Plus, which debuted at number one on the UK albums

chart and sold over 100,000 copies

Ed also dropped his tune off the record The A Team as a single

it's since been certified platinum six times in the UK and landed him the

Ivor Novello Award for Best Song musically and lyrically

it was also 2011's best-selling debut single with over 800,000 copies

a year later he accepted the brit award for best british male solo artist and

british breakthrough act

I didn't think I'd get this one so i just want to thank you

let me see if I remember my family who are here tonight my friends my fans every single

promoter that's ever booked me

every single label

I know every single radio DJ that's ever played me and my label

I'm really bad at this thank you

it was all uphill for him since then going on

to appear on taylor swift's red tour after recording everything has changed

with the pop star for the album

in 2014 Ed dropped his sophomore Multiply

we're sensing a math theme here

which nabbed the number one spot in the UK and the US

how did he do it all?

I've always had an ethos of just working at harder

than anyone else that I admire and respect and trying to portray

and be nice

my dad always told me to choose someone you admire and work harder than them

and be nicer and so when I signed to atlantic records

I saw that James Blunt had sold 10 million records of Back to Bedlam and so I said to

Atlantic Records i want his diary of that year and so I took the diary of

everything he'd done that year and we doubled it so we took did everything he

did plus twice as much work as hard

yeah and we ended up selling half as much but then on this record we sold more

it was in 2015 that multiply earned Ed the honor of brit award for

album of the year

the same year he accepted the Ivor Novello Award for songwriter of the year

thank you so much for this

I was really worried about this album and making it took a long time to make

and to be happy with it and I didn't expect this

of course he also has a few grammys under his belt winning 2 for his single thinking out loud

you know that song makes you cry every single time

so honey now

take me into your lovin arms

kiss me under the light of a thousand stars

place your hand on my beating heart

thinking out loud

maybe we found love right where we are

the best part about all the success? the independence

really excited about it, like the best thing about having successful albums off your own

back is you start to get less and less people giving you an input of what you

have to do like on my first record

there was a lot of people telling me what they thought i should do

and I would listen to them because it's my first record and I don't know what to do

but now I've got to a point where I've done so many things off my own back that

I'm now allowed to do whatever I want to do which is nice because there's no

there's no one telling you what songs to put on your album

Ed is also a known songwriter for other acts most notably he's written a handful

of songs for boy band One Direction including their ballad Moments

so we asked the band when we interviewed them a month ago just out of the blue

who would be the sixth member of One Direction and they were adamant about

having you as a member of One Direction - I'm thinking red-haired man - so am I

let's go with him

do you guys know Ed Sheeran? he's a big artists in in the

UK at the moment

Ginger guy just stands there him and a guitar and he's got one of the best voices you'll ever hear

there's also that little ditty Love Yourself he wrote for Justin Bieber

that being said no one can cover songs quite like Ed

give all you got

just hit the spot, get my girls

get your boys, gonna make some noise

gonna get rowdy, gonna get a little unruly

get it fired up and, hurry

want to get dirty it's about time, but I came to start the party, sweat drippin over my body

dancing, getting just a little, naughty

want to get dirty, it's about time for my arrival

he's performed with Beyonce, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, and more

what can we say he's the whole package which is why it makes sense that he set

up his own label gingerbread man records in 2015

so far he signed Jamie Lawson and Foy Vance you know you know you know what

you know what it's like you have a playlist given to you that is full of music that is good

in it's own right but you are not necessarily a fan of

if someone said to you you can choose these people are on radio it's quite a cool

thing so for me to be able to take an act that I love take it in here and then

you play it and I hear it on radio

that's awesome because i'm hearing stuff that im a fan of on the radio

the same year Ed famously performed three sold-out concerts at wembley

stadium in london while on his world tour

the concert was filmed an aired as an hour special on NBC and was released as

a concert movie

Ed is also extremely charitable he's raised money for give it up for 125

raised funds to help street sex workers and regularly gives bags of cloths to local

charities in Suffolk his home county

it's no wonder why everyone wants to live in a lego house with the ginger

Jesus charitable wise beyond his years and always blessing us with tear

inducing relatable music ed Sheeran is one of a kind honors topping charts and

selling out massive stadiums armed with his guitar

there's nothing that Ed can't do

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