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Ed Sherran is an artist that plays stadiums with just guitar and loop pedal.
im amazed and impressed.thought i better check his music out.
well it didnt do anything for me.
i must be wrong as he`s huge.
your thoughts?
Heard he is a real nice guy. Not into his music if the kids like it that's okay. I guess it's a sign of getting older and going into decay when new things come my way it just shows I was born on the wrong day. Remembering we are now the oldies whose ears are tuned differently.
I loved his appearance in the film Yeasterday. I can take his music or leave it, all music these days sounds the same anyway.
Ed does a lot of work for charities, big donor to cancer research.
as far as his music - he has some real nice songs (31 top 10 hits) , and some album fillers, just as all the rest do.
His new album however called " Subtract" came out this past May - and it was different. His wife Cherry had a cancerous tumor develop while pregnant - and they could do nothing about til after the child was born. All went well, they welcomed a baby girl (Jupiter) and then had the tumor removed and she was cleared of cancer - but had to undergo some weeks of radiation - she is cancer free. 
He also had one of his best friends, Jamal Edwards, die unexpectedly (cocaine and alcohol mix)at the age of 31.
He said it changed him - he threw out over a hundred songs that he had written too choose from for the album - he said ....
"For the first time I'm not trying to craft an album people will like, I'm merely putting something out that's honest and true to where I am in my adult life.
"It's opening the trapdoor into my soul." "I wrote without thought of what the songs would be, I just wrote whatever tumbled out. And in just over a week, I replaced a decade's worth of work with my deepest, darkest thoughts. ( he went into depression for weeks)
he said " this album was written against "a backdrop of grief and hope".
one other thing ....
He found out that a young woman with downs syndrome was getting married in the USA and he was touring near that city.
He surprised her and her husband at the wedding reception and played " Thinking Out Loud" for her - took some pictures with her and her family - - and then left.
The album Subtract has become one of the fastest selling albums ever.
I do like him better than the rest though due to his compassion and personality.
Jim
oh sorry guys it was his music that i dont like, as much as ive tried.
as a person he seems a nice guy.
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