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Ed Sheeran: Mercury Lounge, NYC

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 Lounge – not to mention 'Little Lady', about the lengths people are forced to go to in order not to be homeless, or even the 20-year-old singer-songwriter-rapper's breakthrough hit 'The A Team' (about a homeless woman).

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