Ed Sheeran tells sweet story about his first EVER performance

Ed Sheeran is known for his Number 1 selling songs and albums, and selling out arenas around the world, but it wasn't always that way. Joining us backstage at Hits Live Liverpool, the 'Beautiful People' singer told us a sweet story about his first school performance.

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Speaking to Fleur, James and Matt, Ed revealed his first ever performance was when he was 11-years-old, at school. "It was 'Layla', Derek and the Dominos, but it was the Eric Clapton acoustic unplugged version," Ed reminisced.

"I was 11 and it was the school talent show and me and my best mate, Dan, had rehearsed it. He played piano, and they couldn't put the piano on stage. So, it was like all the way over there. So, we started playing and no one could hear Dan. So, then they just went, 'Let's just cut him out.'

"Which I'm sorry Dan. So, I remember being really nervous about going on stage, crying to my dad before I went in school. 'I don't want to do it'."

Despite being nervous, Ed went ahead with the performance and when it was over, he said, "I suddenly got this buzz of like, oh I could do something. So that was like my first time."

And if you want to know what happened to Dan, take a look at the video interview above. It's a happy ending. 😊

Now take a look at the on stage photos from Hits Live Liverpool:

Ed joined us at Hits Live Liverpool where he performed his biggest hits, alongside a sold out line-up of artists including The Script, Mimi Webb, Mabel, Becky Hill, Joel Corry, Tom Grennan and Ella Henderson.

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