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Ed Sheeran surprises sibling super fans as he makes Azizam comeback
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Apr 5, 2025
Ed Sheeran joins Heart's Mark Wright and Olly Murs aboard the Azizam bus! Ed talks about his brand new single and even manages to surprise two very cute super fans. #edsheeran #azizam #ollymurs _ Subscribe for regular entertainment! http://bit.ly/1qyfc2T Watch videos in full + exclusives here: https://thisisheart.co/heartglobalplayer Honest Celebrity Interviews: https://thisisheart.co/honestinterviews Music Artists: https://thisisheart.co/3YVm8wN Film and TV Stars: https://thisisheart.co/filmandtv _ We're the UK's biggest commercial radio brand creating memorable moments with the most recognised names in entertainment!
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Oh, how are you guys
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Hi. Oh my God. Will you remember this for the rest of your life
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Definitely. We are joined by two lucky young special heart listeners, Pearl and Ray
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Morning guys. Morning. Morning. Talk right into that mic. How are you doing
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Good. So tell us all about your love for Ed Sheeran and why is he your favourite
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Ed Sheeran's my favourite because I just love Castle on the Hill
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Love Castle on the Hill? I love Castle on the Hill. That's my favourite one. And what have you got in your hand right now
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You've got some photos, right? Yeah, we've got some pictures for him. Oh, amazing
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They're really good. So that's a castle on a hill there for one of your sons. You've got shivers
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You've got a picture of Ed. We've even got an egg shearing over there. We've got a potato
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A potato? You've drawn Ed Shearing as a potato? Yes. You guys
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Well, listen, if you could ask any question. Another potato. Yeah, another potato
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So, Ray, if you could ask any question to Ed Shearing, what would the question be
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What's your favourite kaya? Favourite kaya? I think it's pink today. How are you guys
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Hi. Oh my God. What's going on? Good. You having a good day
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Yeah. Enjoying being on the bus? They being nice? Yeah. Yeah? What are these
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Oh, it's Castle on the Hill. Awesome. Thank you. They've made some pictures for you, Ed. Potato
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Thank you. I love it. Potato. Egg Shearer. Let's go. What's with the potato thing, Ray
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What's the story behind that? I like it. You like potatoes? I do like potatoes, yeah. Do you like potatoes
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Yes. Yeah? Why did you draw a potato? Thank you. Why did you draw? Thank you. Right
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Why potato? I don't draw a potato. I don't know it to be a potato
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Amazing. Love it. Thank you. Did you know you was going to see Ed this morning? No, I didn't. No
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Why are you so corncum? I mean, he is like your favourite hero
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And you're just so like, oh, Ed, how are you doing? Because we're buds, isn't it? Oh, nice
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His little laugh. How old are you guys? I'm seven, post nine
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Is it mad that like, you know, you've been doing this, what 10 years now 10 plus years to have fans that weren even born when you first came out Yeah yeah it really but it always that how you know you kind of when I doing gigs and I see people bring their kids I like that the like next generation coming through
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So it's, when that stops, you know, you're kind of like, it's like that, there's kids
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in the audience, that's another 10 years, cha-ching, cha-ching. It's more just, it's more just knowing that kids are like excited by the music, like the
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music that i my dad listened to that i was a fan of i'm still like listening to it now if that
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makes sense like i love elton john i love i love listening to it and that came from like my dad
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taking me to a concert when i was younger etc etc do you know i had my wife and uh my wife and i
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were talking the other day about like artists and you know like celine dion and share the greats and
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we were saying like who of our generation is going to be like because obviously our mums and dads
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you should listen to them and pass them down to us who of our generation is going to like be round
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for our kids and we mentioned yourself obviously Adele and people like that
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Olly Murs of course as well I think it's all based on like
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what records mean to people because me and my wife put on the Kooks first
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album the other day and I was like this is honestly one of my favourite albums ever
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and I think it's what the records mean to you at the time
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and bringing back memories and stuff so I think any artist can be
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that as long as the record's important to them what was it like meeting Ed Sheeran guys
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It was really fun. Yeah, thanks, guys. Thanks for my pictures as well. I really loved it
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Will you remember this for the rest of your life? Definitely. Ed, talk to us about that new song
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and where does the title come from? It is a language called Farsi
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and it means my dear in Farsi, and it was basically the producer that I was working with
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Ilya, is Persian, and whilst we were making music, he was like, let's make something within the Persian culture
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and it was just fun exploring something completely new. like it's rare this far into my career
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to be excited by something that I haven't done before. And it felt really new and fresh
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and everyone that I played it to, it's one of those ones where you don't really know how people are gonna react
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And everyone that I played it to was like, wow, that's different. And I think that all I kind of looking for at the moment is What does it mean What the meaning behind it It means my dear my love It uh it like a term of endearment really incredible how often do you do that just write songs off the
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cuff you said they use with a producer who's persian oh let's write a song about you know how how often do you do that just off the cuff just think of something you know what i'm gonna
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write a song of that i think it has to always be natural i think i couldn't have made this song
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had i not been in the studio with with ilia but i think that yeah you kind of react to where where
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you are at the time who you're talking to what's going on in your life what's going it's it's it
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all is just a flow and i would say like largely there's a lot of songs that get left to the side
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you write a lot of songs and most of them sort of get left in the uh i don't know lost and found i
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guess and and uh but yeah i i would say i try and write every single week and if i get a song a month
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i'm happy how long how long have you had the song for when did you write it i wrote it 2023 on the
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USA tour. Yeah, and to be honest, I've sat on most of this record
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for about two years to really, really get this all right. I want to get the rollout
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and release and it's been a long time since I've done pop properly
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and I just wanted to do it properly and get it planned
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Ed, I mean, most people do know this and they should know that you write songs
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for yourself, obviously, and also so many legends. You've written for Taylor Swift
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Justin Bieber. Me. Brianna me why'd you keep saying me well because Ed's wrote a song with me
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well actually wrote a song for me he hasn't written a song for me yeah we did moves yeah we did moves
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yeah featuring Snoop Dogg exactly that's why it was an absolute dream
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that was honestly one of the coolest things hearing Snoop Dogg on that song it was wasn't it
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yeah yeah yeah cost a lot of money but we got him in years Ed do you think about
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do you look at artists and think you know what I'd love to write a song for them yeah I mean sometimes
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sometimes you're just in a room with them and you're writing it with them
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and it's their story and stuff but often it's like finding it's great inspiration
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in the studio being like we're going to write a song there's like a list
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of people to like pitch for it's usually like these like big artists in America and it like so and so is looking for a song and then you like okay what would we want them to sound like on this record so that sometimes quite fun sometimes the songs that I end up singing myself
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end up from doing that basically well they were supposed to be
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another artist song and then you just think I'm going to sing it sometimes yeah sometimes
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like even like even like Shivers started off as like a Bieber idea you know like it's there's
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it's good sometimes to have someone else in mind because you then don't overthink it
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I feel like I overthink the lyrics of my songs a lot. And sometimes songs just need to free flow
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On this album coming up, is there any collaborations that we can expect or have you got some surprises
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There's definitely surprises. I try not to do any collaborations on the actual record records
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But yeah, I worked a lot with this Indian singer called Arijit Singh
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who is really good and really wonderful. Basically, he lives in the middle of nowhere in India
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It's like a three-hour flight and then a five-and-a-half-hour drive. And I was in India with my dad, and he was like
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well, if you want the vocals, you have to come to me. I love that. And it was like this pilgrimage with my dad
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where we basically travelled for an entire day to his village. You and your dad
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Yeah, and then he drove us around on mopeds around his village. It was a really fun day
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So, yeah, that was a good one. What I love about you, Ed, before we go, I mean, Ollie and myself are the same
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We're so close to our families. You're such a family man, aren't you? How important is it to keep that family life separate from what you do
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go back home, shut that door and be with the loved ones? I think it's so important, yeah
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I've switched my working day because music is very fluid and you could start studio at 8 p.m. and finish at 8 a.m. sort of thing
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but I've got a strict working day of 9 to 5, so I can live a relatively normal life
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And I think that that's made a huge difference of just like, I feel like I'm a working dad, go to work at nine, come back at five and live life normally, you know
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Amazing. Ed Sheeran, we love having you on the show. Thank you. Thank you so much for joining us
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Nice one, guys. It's been a pleasure. Ed Sheeran, everyone. Yeah, hey. On Hot
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