At the tender age of 26, Ed Sheeran has accomplished things that most artists could only dream of. It was only a few weeks ago, that the ginger-haired singer was closing Glastonbury Festival on the Pyramid Stage in front of at least 100,000 people.
While he's sold millions, upon millions of albums, won several music awards and even received an MBE, it hasn't been an easy life for the man who grew up in Suffolk.
That's why he's decided to put all his highs and lows into a biopic. We've seen the likes of 50 Cent (Get Rich or Die Trying), Eminem (8 Mile), Tupac Shakur (All Eyez On Me) and Notorious BIG (Notorious) be immortalised on the big-screen, so it will be interesting to see how producers tell his story.
Before he became an international legend, selling out stadiums left, right and centre, he sang in a local church at the age of four in Framlingham. He also learned how to play the guitar and started writing down lyrics while he was in primary and high school.
His dad, John, took him to several live concerts while he was young, which reportedly inspired him to get into music. Sheeran started recording music when he was just 13 and moved to London four years later to have a crack at the industry.
But despite releasing to collections of work You Need Me and the Loose Change EP, times were tough. He told Capital FM: "I didn't have anywhere to live for much of 2008 and the whole of 2009 and 2010, but somehow I made it work. I knew where I could get a bed at a certain time of night and I knew who I could call at any time to get a floor to sleep on. Being sociable helped. Drinking helped.
"I spent a week catching up on sleep on Circle Line trains. I'd go out and play a gig, wait until 5am when the underground opened, sleep on the Circle Line until 12, go to a session - and then repeat. It wasn't that bad. It's not like I was sleeping rough on the cold streets."
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That EP contained the track 'The A Team' which most fans would recognise as his first major hit. Following that, Sheeran went from strength to strength, releasing three albums named after mathematic symbols, + (Plus), × (Multiply) and more recently ÷ (Divide).
He's told Q Magazine: "I want to have an 8 Mile moment, but 8 Mile meets Notting Hill. Not gritty like Detroit but, like, Ipswich. I've got loads of songs about Ipswich that haven't come out so I could make a soundtrack."
He added that he's keen to do something similar to the critically acclaimed film Once, but cast a bunch of unknown actors, and do it with a small budget.
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