Ed Sheeran’s very first and rare demo has been put up for auction at £10,000.
The love songs were written by a 13-year-old Ed and we’re going to have to take out a loan to get our hands on this one.
The 29-year-old only made around 20 copies of the album, which he called Spinning Man.
However, 19 of the copies are in his possession as he previously confessed he didn’t want anyone to ‘get hold of a copy.’
One demo has been discovered in a drawer where it had been ‘forgotten’ for years.
The Shape of You singer was staying with family – while making money by busking – and gave a copy of it to a friend of the relatives.
‘My brother put it in a drawer and forgot about it,’ the friends’ brother, Kevin – who did not want to give his surname – told the PA news agency.
‘At the time Ed Sheeran was this just this wee, ginger-haired busker and he thought nothing of it. He didn’t realise he would go on to be one of the world’s biggest pop stars.’
The star, who is currently taking a break from the limelight, wrote in his book, Ed Sheeran: A Visual Journey, that he wrote the songs when he had his heart broken for the first time.
‘In 2004, I made my very first album, Spinning Man, named after a picture that my dad had,’ he explained.
‘I burnt the CDs myself and made the covers. There were 14 songs, and they were all songs that rhymed. One lyric went: “I’m a typical average teen if you know what I mean”.
‘There are probably 20 copies of Spinning Man in existence, and I have 19 of them. I don’t want anyone else to get hold of a copy.’
The majority of the tracks were written about a girl named Claire, who was his ‘first love.’
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