Ed Sheeran Remembers Jamal Edwards | The Jonathan Ross Show

okay so I had the new album here ladies and gentlemen do you know what I I don't I don't even have this you have the vinyl that I don't even have that's the new album okay um that is I think that's you want to cover yeah that is the title of the album it's in keeping with the mathematical signal and this one is now it's not minus this is subtract subtract yeah subtract okay how much longer you're going to stick with the uh mathematical you must be wanting it no this is it I was always it was meant to be plus then subtract but I kept pushing this one back just because it was um I don't know in my mind subtract was like this perfect acoustic album and I knew it was always going to be low-fi and I guess that kind of scared me in a way because I wanted to make it perfect and I some stuff happened to me at beginning of last year and I wrote this album whilst that was happening and then I sort of put the other one to the side and now that this is subtracted it's kind of happened in like a backwards way so look I know you mentioned you've been through some stuff and I know you have had and everyone's going through stuff we were talking totally yeah yeah totally but I know you have been through a lot of kind of like big emotional things in your life and some of the some of the tracks on the album are colored by that informed by that inspired by that uh what which ones do you feel comfortable talking about which things I know I know one was that was the far too young a friend of yours died yeah yeah I just fit you know I feel like and this is the one thing about having adult stuff happen to you is you realize that everyone else is going through exactly the same thing and I didn't really talk to anyone about it and it's only through doing like the Rolling Stone interview and the documentary coming out that all the news is coming out and the amount of people that are coming out to me who are going through the same thing and you just never you never know what is going on in someone's day but you said before the show I thought it was fascinating you're talking about how how you felt sometimes on stage and how alone you sometimes felt yeah and it wasn't until you had an interview with no I watched Robbie Williams uh he did like a documentary on TV and uh you know his rise to fame obviously he was in take that but his solo career I felt was quite similar to me just in terms of trajectory and the venues that he was doing and what the albums were doing and how big it got and how isolated it got and how like he had a problem with his weight and he had a problem with drugs and he had a problem with alcohol and I was watching this thing being like Oh man he's gone through exactly what I've just gone through and I emailed him um and I said your documentary made me feel less isolated and he was like ironically that email just made me feel less likely so it's just I think it's just good to talk about things not just pop start to pop star but person to person Elton helped you out didn't you I know he helped lobby as well didn't he well Alex was just he's done every everything hasn't he good and bad so like he's yeah he's he's definitely he's someone with a a wealth of uh experience no matter what you do no matter how bad the thing is and probably in high heels in it though yeah it's definitely but he's a a wonderful man because he does share that to help people doesn't he totally and and and normalizes it you know he normalizes these things and yeah I find I find out and they're fantastic person and uh yeah I'm honored to be in his sphere yeah he's a lovely man um so let's go back if I may I want to go back to this young man who died because I know how close you are he kind of helped chuckling the other days his name was Jamal wasn't he he was very well known online yeah um and you'd known him since when when did you first meet him when I first moved to London really we uh he I was sort of like this struggling up and coming musician wanting anyone to take me seriously and no one was taking me seriously because I was like fat like scraggly Ginger hair I had a tiny guitar and I used to rap and beatbox and everyone's kind of saw me as a joke and Jamal put me on his channel which at the time on on YouTube which at the time was like the coolest channel to be on and as soon as he put me on uh everything starts falling into place my manager found me my record label like started getting in touch and I was living at his at the time with the first day we met I just I didn't have anywhere to live and I just moved in at his and we just did all these like I probably did like 20 videos for him that year of like different songs and stuff and then it blew up and we sort of just carried that on um I mean the day that the day that he passed away we were meant to be shooting a music video how old was he when he died 31. well that's too young and when was the last time before his death you spoke to him four hours probably wow yeah did it was it after his death was that why it's about you to go into therapy it was like it was it was a bunch of stuff from my my wife had a sort of a health scare complication and then Jamal died and then I went straight into a court case and then I had another friend die whilst whilst in the court case and uh I just I don't know I've never really I've always had like ups and downs in my career and I've always been it's the it's the English thing in it just keep calm carrying don't talk about it yeah and also like I don't know I feel like therapy in America is far more accepted whereas here like no one really talks about it and I did I just felt ashamed even thinking about going to do it and then I we just had a really really low three months and my wife talked me into going into therapy and I started doing it and I realized it's not like a button that you press where you're like I'm automatically okay but it definitely helps and I would recommend if anyone's having like real loads like just speaking to someone who is paid to hear you out and normalize it and be like it's okay to think like that it's just good to talk get it out and have someone listen who can help you make sense yeah because before I would just not talk to anyone and just keep it all bottled up and I think that's when you get lower and lower and lower that is not well it's a great thing to hear though isn't it because it's a really useful thing and in particular I think I know it sounds weird but young men in particular seem to buy up and so for a young man to tell other young men to do that I think it's a very important thing foreign

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Length: 6min 1sec (361 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 01 2023