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Ed Sheeran

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Ed Sheeran: +

Review by John Lewis, Metro, 11 September 2011

SINGER/SONGWRITER Ed Sheeran is a 20-year-old Prince Harry lookalike from Suffolk who somehow straddles the worlds of folksy MOR and hip hop. ...

Ed Sheeran: +

Review by Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, 12 September 2011

HAVING SEEN his debut single, the haunting picture of a teenage drug-addict prostitute that was 'The A Team', hit number three earlier this year, Sheeran ...

Ed Sheeran: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Live Review by David Bennun, Mail On Sunday, October 2011

A FOUNDING MYTH of modern music has Robert Johnson, that most occult and eerie of early bluesmen, meeting the Devil at a Mississippi crossroads one ...

Ed Sheeran: Mercury Lounge, NYC

Live Review by Iman Lababedi, RockNYC, 2 February 2012

WHAT'S WITH Ed Sheeran and homelessness? The subject provides two short stories and three songs during his second set ever in the US at Mercury ...

And another thing: Miserable songs

Comment by David Hepworth, The Word, August 2012

Writing miserable songs doesn't make you deep, boys and girls ...

"I miss my friends and family, and Nandos": Mild-mannered Ed Sheeran's feet are firmly on the ground

Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 12 October 2012

In the era of autotuned idols, the appeal of a unflashy young man and his heartfelt songs obviously strikes a universal chord ...

Ed Sheeran: iTunes festival, Roundhouse, London ****

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 30 September 2014

Choirmaster builds to a climax... but keeps his shirt on. The multimillion-selling star stretches English self-deprecation to the limits while creating a whole band's worth of ...

Picture this: The love affair between rockers and the lens

Book Review by James Medd, New Statesman, 16 October 2014

Jimmy Page: Jimmy Page (Genesis) Marianne Faithfull: Marianne Faithfull – A Life on Record  (Rizzoli) Chris Stein: Negative – Me, Blondie and the Advent ...

Ed Sheeran is shit

Comment by Everett True, Music That I Like, March 2017

ED SHEERAN is shit. Do not believe the crowd. ...

Ed Sheeran: O2 Arena, London

Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 2 May 2017

His rapping may be workmanlike, his music sentimental, and his wardrobe straight outta Oxfam, but Sheeran's phenomenal rise is justified: he's great live ...

Ed Sheeran: No. 6 Collaborations (Atlantic)

Review by Caroline Sullivan, Metro, 15 July 2019

OTHERWISE known as Pop's Insanely Successful Mr Average, Ed Sheeran rouses many people to eye-rolling disbelief: four albums in, how can Ginger Ordinaire still be ...

Khalid: The O2, London

Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 18 September 2019

Khalid gets an Ed start as Ginger One joins in ...

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