Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011. It topped the UK and Australian charts, reached number five in the US, and has since been certified eight-times platinum in the UK.
The album contains the single "The A Team", which earned him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where he performed the song with Elton John.
Ed Sheeran demo CD sells for £8000
completemusicupdate.comAn “ultra rare” Ed Sheeran demo CD has sold at auction for £8000. Just 21 copies of the album, recorded when Sheeran was thirteen, are known to exist.
And nineteen of those have previously been bought up by Sheeran himself in a bid to suppress the record.Titled ‘Spinning Man’, the CD was the first lot in a music memorabilia auction held by the Essex-based Stacey’s Auctioneers yesterday, with the auction house anticipating a sale somewhere between £5000 and £8000.Recorded in December 2004 and January 2005, the fourteen song collection was one of a number of self-released records put out by Sheeran prior to him signing with Warner’s Atlantic Records in 2011.Although Sheeran has gone to great effort to try to ensure that no one ever hears ‘Spinning Man’, this is not the first time a copy has gone up for sale.In 2020, a copy was sold for £50,000.
This despite the fact that Sheeran’s representatives insisted that particular copy was “officially counterfeit”. That was down to the title being handwritten on the CD itself, rather than appearing on a sticker, as was the case on the other 20 copies.In his 2014 book ‘Ed Sheeran: A Visual Journey’, the musician wrote: “There are probably 20 copies of ‘Spinning Man’ in existence, and I have nineteen of them.
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