Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All (2023): Season 1, Episode 2 - Episode #1.2 - full transcript
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[dog barking]
- [artist] Gotta meet the dog.
- [Sheeran] How you doing?
- This is Yodi. I'm Astrid.
- Hey. What's going on?
- Nice to meet you.
- This is my dad, John.
- Hi.
- Hello.
- [barking]
- Oh.
- What do I do?
- [Astrid] She will... Yeah.
She's never bit anyone.
- [Sheeran] Cool.
- I've had her for four years.
[Sheeran]
My first tattoo was actually in LA.
And I remember coming home,
and they thought that my life had ended.
- [Astrid chuckles]
- Then I got one more.
And then it was just… [sputters]
- [Astrid] Same.
- Yeah.
I like them now though.
It's like a visual diary.
[Sheeran] Dabs, do you want to
just write down "Dabs" and I'll get that?
He can write it down on you,
and I'll just tattoo his exact writing.
[chuckles] So I call him Dabs
because when I was younger in...
It's quite weird
'cause Lyra now calls him Grandabs.
Because she can't say "d" as well. Um.
[John]
You couldn't actually write "dad," is it?
- Yeah, I was...
- You always did a B.
- Yeah, I was always "Ebwarb."
- Mmm.
- Ebwarb.
- 'Cause I couldn't write a D.
- You were Ebwarb.
- So he's Dabs instead of Dad.
- I'll get it there.
- Okay.
- [Astrid] That's cute.
- You ought to get Mummy to do one.
- Hey, Mums.
- Hello, dear.
- How are you doing?
- Fine. How are you?
Could I get you to do me a favor?
I'm just here getting a tattoo
of Dabs's handwriting,
and I want to get a tattoo
of your handwriting.
Can you just write "Mums"
with a... with a cross
and take a picture of it
and send it to Dabs.
He's also getting a...
He's getting a face tattoo as well.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, good.
These are the ones I got here…
- Yeah.
- …ten years ago.
- Basically, my dad...
- That was three Madison Square Gardens.
And it was just after Grandad passed away.
And that was actually my inspiration
of leaving Los Angeles.
I remember being...
I'd lived in LA for, like, a year.
And I remember being at a party
and you ringing me up and saying,
"Grandad's died,"
then looking round and being like,
"No one here cares."
If I was at home,
my friends would be like,
"Come on. Let's, like," you know,
"talk about it or have a pint
or blah, blah."
But I was in this sort of environment
where it was all, surface level,
fun and happy,
but actually, underneath it all,
there's no real connection
or real love from there.
So that was...
That was the day that I moved back home.
["Lego House" playing]
That's me and the gang.
So there's, um... Nic's up top.
So you see me.
To the left and to the left, that's Nic.
You really didn't give me a chance
at school, did you?
- [laughing]
- [laughing] Guys.
[John] Uh, this is...
These are just gig tickets.
- [Sheeran] Elton John at Ipswich Town.
- [John] Yeah.
No one plays at Ipswich Town.
Maybe every six or seven years
someone will come and play,
and the whole area goes to watch them
'cause nothing ever happens here.
- [Imogen] Supported by James Blunt.
- Yeah.
Supported by James Blunt.
- That's the James Blunt ticket.
- [Imogen] Poor thing.
- From Cambridge.
- At the Junction.
Yeah. Junction. 25th of April 2005.
And now I'm the godfather
of one of his kids.
[John]
This was taken the first gig in London.
[Imogen] Edward insisted on staying
till the end of the gig.
And when we got out of the gig,
we'd been locked in for the night.
- We couldn't get the car out.
- [chuckles]
- Where did we go?
- We walked up to town.
We walked miles to try and find
a hotel we could afford.
Then we all slept in one bed.
It was very uncomfortable. [Chuckles]
From very early on we said to them,
"If you can do something
that you love as a job,
you're gonna have a fantastic life."
And he's living his dream.
- [mumbles]
- [cameraman] I'm a rock star.
[crowd cheering]
["Sing" playing]
♪ It's late in the evening
Glass on the side ♪
♪ I've been sat with you
Most of the night ♪
[crowd cheering]
♪ Ignoring everybody here ♪
♪ Wish they would disappear ♪
♪ So maybe we could get down now ♪
[crowd cheering]
[Sheeran] The Divide Tour was the peak
of where it can go in a pop career.
[crowd cheering]
[Sheeran] Can't really explain
the whirlwind that was.
I'm a solo artist.
And you go out on stage,
and you sing to 60,000 people.
You're all connected as one.
And then you sort of get off
and go into a room where it's silent,
and there's only the sound
of an air-conditioner, and it's just you.
[Sheeran]
You just end up going out on your own
and getting into really
compromising situations.
This is why I took my friends on tour.
[cameraman]
Time to get the show on the road.
[Sheeran] When Cherry wasn't there
on the tour, Nic was, and Josh was,
and Lauren was, and Zak was.
It's like constantly having your foot
in your hometown.
I swear by Nic.
I'm very, very protective of
my group of friends.
Not really many people come in and not,
and not many people leave. [Chuckles]
It's pretty much the same as it's been
for the last ten years.
Really breathe in.
- There's room for three of us.
- My mistake.
The table might fill up,
but we're all right.
Kev is pretty much my husband.
He was there on our wedding day.
He was there on our honeymoon.
He was there
on the birth of our first child.
I've spent more days with him
than with Cherry.
It was when I first met him
and he used to stay out or stay up
till 4:00 a.m. in the morning,
and me and Mark used to get up
and go golf every morning.
Now he's got kids.
He's awake at 6:00 in the morning.
- We can't do that.
- [both laugh]
I didn't have that before.
I was just out in the wilderness,
touring round the world.
It's much better to have
friends there looking out for you.
[in high voice] ♪ Oh, raise me up
So I can stand on mountains ♪
[group laughing]
[friend] That's going around
the whole stadium.
- Is it?
- [group laughing]
- ♪ Sing! ♪
- ♪ Oh ♪
[chanting]
[crowd cheering]
[group] Yeah, yeah.
- ♪ Louder!
- ♪ Oh ♪
[shouting]
I don't feel like I'm employing my friends
because they're actually doing a role
that's actually beneficial
to me and the tour.
It's like a fortress.
Which is really nice.
Josh has always been cool.
- He's always been the cool kid.
- [Josh chuckles]
But we did cello lessons together.
So I was like, "I know you're not cool.
I'm not cool for playing cello,
and you have lessons with me."
- And he used to call me "cello boy."
- I honestly don't remember it.
- It's scarred in my memory.
- Yeah. [Chuckles]
[Josh] I don't really know
many other global superstars,
but he definitely hasn't turned
into an asshole.
I've heard a lot of the other ones do.
[chuckles]
Nic's having a kid in December,
and all hellfire will rain down on him.
[chuckles] Can't wait.
[all counting to three in German]
- ♪ Sing!
- ♪ Oh ♪
♪ If you feel you're falling
Won't you let me know? ♪
We've sort of been
best, best friends since 16.
We would have school parties,
and it would be, like, them and Jamal.
And everyone knows him as
my best friend from London.
Just spitting bars going in.
First day I met him,
I met up with him in Acton where he lives.
Made all these funny videos en route.
I actually moved in at Jamal's that day.
I basically lived in his bedroom.
His mom thought
we were having a relationship.
[both] ♪ Pain everybody go mad ♪
♪ Raging ♪
♪ I'll start ringing up shells
Rage ♪
♪ I'll start ringing up bells
Rage ♪
♪ I'll start bringing round girls
Rage ♪
He grew up loving grime music.
I grew up loving grime music.
And although I'm from Suffolk
and he's from London,
we just feel like the same person.
♪ Yes, you know my face
Gas ♪
[both laughing]
[Sheeran]
Jamal was someone that really helped me.
[Jamal]
You wanna keep answering the questions,
so I don't hear my voice
all the time as well. Yeah?
It was kind of a breakout for me
'cause I mainly film grime and rap.
So when I filmed a folk kind of singer
who was emceeing, rapping and playing a...
Beat boxing... guitar,
it was like,
"Whoa. Who's this ginger kid?"
- Yeah.
- [all chuckle]
- [Sheeran] F64.
- [Jamal] No.
[Sheeran] My success
and his success was tied together.
Like, we came up together.
[Jamal] Good luck, brother.
You're smashing it.
[Sheeran] So I'd been playing
Shepherd's Bush Empire.
He would launch a record label with Sony.
For the next five to ten years is where
I really need to sort of amp it up a bit.
So I'm at my halfway point.
I don't even think
I've done what I've wanted to do yet.
[Sheeran] We're constantly just egging
each other on.
[Sheeran]
One of my favorite nights with Jamal
is just putting on old SBTV freestyles.
Him and me knowing all the words
and we just rapping at each other
until 4:00 a.m.
Like, I live and breathe it. I love it.
♪ Go round downtown
Mmm ♪
♪ Man, I wanna… ♪
- Cheese.
- [friend chuckles]
♪ When I run her back ♪
♪ When I travel, man
And I get the four five back ♪
♪ When I go, boy… ♪
[Sheeran] Friendship's just
this chemistry that happens.
When it's burning, you wanna hang out
every day and do all these things.
It's just about sharing everything.
- We do an F64.
- [chuckles] No, no, no.
So he's pretending. Look.
And when it ends, it's just devastating.
Tributes have been paid
from across the British music scene
to the entrepreneur Jamal Edwards,
who has died at the age of 31.
[reporter] He was the man
who helped launch the careers
of some of British music's biggest names.
His groundbreaking work
and legacy in British music
and culture will live on.
[Sheeran] Jamal died in the morning,
and I was at his mum's house at midday.
Because in Caribbean culture
they have a thing called a nine nights.
So you go to the family home
for nine days and nine nights,
then on the ninth night
they throw a big party.
I had friends in school
whose parents passed away
when they were, like, 14.
And I looked back on it,
and I'm like,
"That is when you became an adult.
I became an adult recently,
but that's when you became an adult
because grief instantly ends your youth."
The funeral was, like, 30 people,
but he knows, like, 10,000 people.
So this is the first event that
everyone can come to
and come together and remember him.
- [laughing]
- Oh.
- [Brenda] Just... I just can't. I've been...
- [Sheeran] You all right?
- Is it healing?
- Yeah. Everything okay?
- Yeah, good. I love these by the way.
- I've got one for you.
- Have you?
- I've got one for you.
- Amazing.
- Who's coming today?
Um, everything's all good?
Everything is cool? It's chilled?
He's here somewhere.
I've... I've lost my boy.
- There he is.
- [Sheeran] I saw that.
- He's here. [Chuckles]
- [guest] We stared at that for a while.
[guests chattering]
I got this... Me and Jamal,
on our 21st birthdays,
bought matching watches.
How are you? Nice to see you, man.
Good. I've literally flown back for this,
and then I fly out tomorrow.
[guest] You can never have too much.
[Jamal] That's only 50 seconds.
I can't really do more than that.
I don't know all the song.
[Jamal] It needs to be
at least a minute and 30 seconds.
Okay. Um.
♪ I'm on a bad man ting
I don't play tennis, play badminton ♪
[both laugh]
[guests chattering]
[photographer] One.
[guests chattering]
[chuckling]
Can you be gangsta with a bucket hat?
I just feel such a weird, like...
I don't know.
I know everyone should be having fun.
That's the whole point.
I feel so... just lost in there.
[Jamal] Look up.
[chuckles]
- Tell me when to look up.
- [Jamal] Aight.
- And look up.
- [both laughing]
[Jamal] What is that look?
Not liking the...
All right, do it again.
Wait, that light's off-put...
- [crewman] Too much?
- [Jamal] Yeah.
- Aight.
- Tell me when.
[Jamal] Three.
Look up.
[Jamal chuckling] Stop. You can't...
Why you laughing, bruv?
Keep a serious face. Like, there's no…
When it's down, it's gonna...
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. [Chuckles]
- Aight.
Like, this is his first birthday
that he hasn't been here.
And this is his first cookout
that he hasn't been here.
And his... You know.
He died six months ago.
It's still like very, very raw.
I'd never been to a burial.
This is the first time that,
like, you know, you're there.
Someone's singing a hymn,
then suddenly someone hands you a shovel.
And then suddenly you're putting dirt
on your mate's grave,
and it's very real.
It's very, very real.
His grave is... We go past it quite a lot.
And... And it just feels so weird
that he's in amongst loads of people
that he didn't know.
Like, it's obviously a grave site.
And the person next to him...
And the person has all, like,
wreaths saying like, "dad"
or like, "sister" or "mom."
And it's just all just pure sadness.
Of... It's... It's horrible.
And I know...
I know everyone goes through it.
I know it's a common thing
you can't avoid.
But, yeah.
[device ringing]
- [Cherry] Hello. Hey.
- Hey, darling.
Ah, shit. Did I just ring
while you were putting them down?
- Yeah. Been having…
- You sound rough.
…having moments.
Yeah.
It was actually a really good turnout.
It was nice.
[sniffs] Yeah, no. Um...
Yeah. I'll see you, um, Sunday though.
[Sheeran] Love you.
[Sheeran] Bye.
[patrons chattering]
[Sheeran] Where you guys from?
- [patron] I live round the corner.
- West?
I just moved from Leicester,
to up the road.
- Yeah?
- But this lovely lady, this is my cousin.
So we decided to go out for some dinner.
And I've been telling her about this place
'cause I was like
"Ed Sheeran's been there!"
And look it's Ed Sheeran!
- [laughing]
- We've been looking at your picture.
- This is my...
- What are you doing here?
So my friend that showed me this place,
it's his birthday today.
He passed away six months ago.
- We're just...
- This is what I'm saying.
Yeah, he was February 20th,
so we're having a, like...
Just had a big party in East for him.
You having a reunion?
Yeah, but you know when it gets a lot
- and you just wanna have a moment?
- Mellow.
Welcome to the ends, bruv!
- No, but this is what...
- [server laughing]
- He's been here for years.
- [patron] Really?
Old-school.
When Jamal used to live
next to the estate, we used to live there.
When he was playing guitar, rapping.
He was the ginger guy.
[all laughing]
- Now look at this one.
- [server] No, well, it is true that one.
[Sheeran]
Everyone in Acton knows him. Everyone.
Like, this is his spot.
I don't even know how to describe it.
Like, being on my own
and being able to remember Jamal
in the spot
that he always took me to, it make...
Like, I feel like I've gone there.
I've done... To support.
Now I've come here and I feel like…
I don't know.
I, like... I miss him and I love him.
And I'm... Like, I'm here and,
like, really remember the good times.
But I have so many
great memories of Acton.
Feels great.
D, can we stop en route
and get some Hennessy?
Yeah.
- Jamal called it, "Hennessing can happen."
- [ice cubes clatter]
[crewman chuckling]
"Hennessing" can happen.
Or "Hennessing is possible."
- [security chuckles]
- [crewman] What, with apple juice?
- [security] That's right.
- [Sheeran] Yeah.
The mural that people go to
when he passed away
was actually made when he was still alive.
That's how much people appreciated him.
Like, it was all…
People were celebrating him
when he was here.
I think he liked it.
[lighter clicks]
[security] You all right? Huh?
[Sheeran] Hmm.
Let's go back home.
["Bloodstream" playing]
[crowd cheering]
I feel, like, a lot of times
in a kinda chaotic storm
where you're just trying to stay level.
Like, I hadn't really grown up
until I felt grief.
Loss, it just took over my life.
♪ I've been spinning now for time ♪
♪ Couple women by my side ♪
♪ I got sinning on my mind now ♪
♪ Sipping on red wine ♪
♪ I've been sitting here for ages ♪
♪ Ripping out the pages ♪
♪ How'd I get so faded? ♪
♪ How'd I get so faded? ♪
♪ Oh, no, no don't leave me lonely now ♪
♪ You've loved me
How'd you never learn now? ♪
♪ Ooh, colored crimson in my eyes ♪
♪ One or two could free my mind ♪
♪ Ooh, oh ♪
♪ All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line ♪
♪ All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line ♪
♪ All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line ♪
♪ All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line ♪
♪ All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line ♪
♪ All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line ♪
♪ All the voices in my mind
Calling out ♪
♪ I saw scars upon her ♪
♪ Tell me when it kicks in ♪
♪ Tell me when it kicks in ♪
[crowd cheering]
♪ I saw scars upon her ♪
♪ Tell me when it kicks in ♪
♪ Brokenhearted now ♪
[crowd cheering]
[crowd cheering]
[fan 1] Whoo!
[fan 2] Whoo!
- [crew chattering]
- [Nic] You good?
Just… kind of mad
what was yesterday and what is today.
- [Nic] Yeah.
- You know?
- [Nic] Did you think about it on stage?
- Whole time, yeah.
I was just, like...
Just trying to, like, hold it together.
[groans] Oh, man.
You kind of, like...
Obviously, it's good to be distracted
and have things,
and, like, playing to a crowd
like that is great, and...
But it's, like…
Like, at one o'clock this morning,
I was at the mural, and…
Yeah. It's just… kind of weird.
I was thinking, "I don't want to cry
in front of 78,000 people."
Um. And I found myself
really close at times.
Um.
Yeah.
It's just mad
it's just straight back to it.
Fly home.
Go and do something really intense,
and then straight back to…
The show must go on.
I still feel so much love
from that side of the industry
that Jamal introduced me into,
especially in the grime scene.
Every single person in the UK industry,
of any note, from Dave…
- Thanks so much.
- [crowd cheering]
- …to Stormzy…
- This one means so much to me.
…he was part of their journey.
Jamal is so intertwined
with everyone's stories
that you can't not keep the memory alive.
I had Fire boy
who couldn't come on tonight's tour...
Last night at Wembley Stadium.
This is the biggest ticketed show
I have ever done in England.
And what better way to celebrate it
than to bring out Big Mike.
Cheese.
- Glasgow!
- [crowd cheering]
Stormzy!
Which is mad
because you can do a Wembley anyway.
Me and Stormzy first met in 2015.
I guess over the years
it's just turned into
a real bond of love,
friendship, brotherhood.
He was there
the day after Jamal passed away.
He drove to my house
and came and comforted me.
A lot of the time when I do it,
because of the in-ears...
[Sheeran] That's what I'm saying.
At the end of one of the songs,
just take it out.
- That's what I was gonna tell you.
- Watch and listen.
Just hear the screams.
Grateful, man.
Grateful to have a brother like this
who does five Wembleys
and you get to prance in and just,
"Now I've come for the ride."
[Sheeran] When you gonna put on yours?
I wanna do this once.
That once, and then...
- That's what I said. [Chuckles]
- What's this one? What's this here?
- Twelfth.
- [whispers] Fucking hell.
[Sheeran] There's not any fake bullshit.
He would be as big as he is without me.
I would be as big as I am without him.
But when we come together it's magical.
Like, you would want to
bottle something like that up
and every now and then just open it.
- [crowd cheering]
- That was, aah.
Very big crowd, hey?
- [chuckling]
- [stagehand] Watch above there.
- Oh, shit.
- Watch your head there.
[Sheeran] Now, Wembley.
This February, sadly we lost
a very important person in music
who was also my best friend,
Jamal Edwards.
You would know him as SBTV,
but he was a fantastic, fantastic man.
I would not be on this stage
were it not for him. This one's for Jamal.
["Take Me Back to London" playing]
Now, London…
- [screaming]
- Whoo!
This needs no introduction.
Make some noise!
[cheering intensifies]
Hey!
♪ Jet plane headed up to the sky
Spread wings in the clouds getting high ♪
Whoop. Whoop.
♪ We ain't hit a rave in a while ♪
♪ So take me back to London-don-don ♪
♪ I do deals but I never get twanged
Moves that ain't ever been planned ♪
♪ Know goons that were never in gangs
Where I'm from, chat shit get banged ♪
♪ Where I'm from
Chat shit, let the 12-gauge rip ♪
♪ Yeah, it's sick how it fits in my hand ♪
♪ I don't mix with the glitz and the glam
Or these stupid pricks on the gram ♪
- ♪ It's that time ♪
- ♪ Whoo ♪
- ♪ Big Mike and Teddy are on grime ♪
- ♪ Whoo ♪
♪ I wanna try new things
They just want me to sing ♪
♪ 'Cause nobody thinks I write rhymes ♪
♪ Now I'm back in the bits with my guy
Give me a packet of crisps with my pint ♪
♪ I hit my friends up ♪
♪ Go straight to the pub
'Cause I haven't been home in time ♪
- ♪ Bass high, middle night, ceiling low ♪
- ♪ Ceiling low ♪
♪ Sweat brow drippin' down
When in Rome ♪
- ♪ Whoo, whoo ♪
- ♪ No town does it quite like my home ♪
♪ So take me back to London-don ♪
[crowd cheering]
I've been in the industry now for a very,
very long time.
Honest to God, hand on heart,
this man is such a wonderful human being.
He's… [chuckles]
Like, aside from... aside from music,
he's been there for me
in some of the darkest times of my life.
And I'm so honored to know him
and bring him on stage for you guys.
Wembley, one more time,
make some noise for Stormzy!
[crowd cheering]
Jamal's favorite quote is,
"The goal is not to live forever,
it's to create something that will."
That's Jamal's legacy.
It's not SBTV.
And it's not Stormzy becoming
the biggest rapper in England.
And it's not me making
a career out of myself.
Jamal's legacy is
basically empowering young kids
to be able to be whatever they wanna be.
Because all he did was get a camera,
start filming his mates
and put it on YouTube when he was 14.
Self-belief every day, all day.
That's... That's... I can't say it enough.
[Sheeran] I don't want my legacy to be
"Shape of You."
I don't want my legacy to be "Perfect."
Like, I would love for my legacy to be
essentially saying to kids,
"Just do what you want to do."
[residents chattering]
[Sheeran] Kids in Ipswich, which is not,
like, a glamorous place at all.
But I want kids in Ipswich to be like,
"Ed's from Ipswich. I'm from Ipswich.
I can do it too."
- [pedestrian, indistinct]
- Huh?
About to play a show at the town hall.
You wanna come?
- Fantastic, thank you.
- Just here for free.
- That'll be a pleasure.
- Come on down.
- Wow. We saw you early in the year.
- Yeah?
- For free?
- Yeah. Whereabouts?
- Wembley.
- Amazing. Thanks for coming.
[crowd chattering]
- [crowd member 1] Come on, Ed.
- How you doing?
- All right. Is that on?
- [crowd cheering]
How you guys doing?
First gig on the,
uh, High Street in a while.
- Good to be back.
- [crowd cheers]
♪ When your legs don't work
Like they used to before ♪
[crowd whistles, cheers]
♪ And I can't sweep you off of your feet ♪
♪ Will your mouth still remember
The taste of my love? ♪
♪ Will your eyes still smile
From your cheeks? ♪
♪ People fall in love in mysterious ways ♪
♪ Maybe it's all part of a plan ♪
♪ I'll just keep on making
The same mistakes ♪
♪ Hoping that you'll understand ♪
♪ But, baby, now ♪
[crowd member 2] Whoo!
♪ Take me into your loving arms ♪
♪ Ay, yeah… ♪
I never got into music being like,
"I wanna sell out Wembley Stadium."
I'd seen people do gigs and get paid £50
or people do weddings and get paid £200.
I knew it was possible.
♪ Thinking out loud… ♪
If I was just making a living doing music,
I'd be just as happy.
Because you're just doing
the thing you love.
♪ Where we are ♪
[crowd cheering, applauding]
To the hot dog man that's leaving,
I love you!
- [crowd chuckles, cheering]
- You're the man.
And that's actually
the key to happiness I think.
[crowd chattering]
I have a question. Is that your guitar?
- If I give you this guitar after this…
- [crowd cheering]
And this... And this speaker,
will you pro...
- How old are you?
- Ten.
Ten. So I started playing guitar at 11,
and I couldn't play guitar before that.
If I give you this, you promise...
You make him practice every day?
- Every day. Every day.
- [crowd cheering]
[indistinct chatter]
[crowd cheering]
[crowd chattering]
[Sheeran] Major, major life things happen,
and you just have to remember that
the day will end.
And there will be another day.
And that day will end.
Music's always been like therapy to me.
It was a way for me to get
my thoughts and feelings down as a kid.
- [crewman] Bye-bye.
- [Sheeran] See you later.
And it works.
Really works.
---
[dog barking]
- [artist] Gotta meet the dog.
- [Sheeran] How you doing?
- This is Yodi. I'm Astrid.
- Hey. What's going on?
- Nice to meet you.
- This is my dad, John.
- Hi.
- Hello.
- [barking]
- Oh.
- What do I do?
- [Astrid] She will... Yeah.
She's never bit anyone.
- [Sheeran] Cool.
- I've had her for four years.
[Sheeran]
My first tattoo was actually in LA.
And I remember coming home,
and they thought that my life had ended.
- [Astrid chuckles]
- Then I got one more.
And then it was just… [sputters]
- [Astrid] Same.
- Yeah.
I like them now though.
It's like a visual diary.
[Sheeran] Dabs, do you want to
just write down "Dabs" and I'll get that?
He can write it down on you,
and I'll just tattoo his exact writing.
[chuckles] So I call him Dabs
because when I was younger in...
It's quite weird
'cause Lyra now calls him Grandabs.
Because she can't say "d" as well. Um.
[John]
You couldn't actually write "dad," is it?
- Yeah, I was...
- You always did a B.
- Yeah, I was always "Ebwarb."
- Mmm.
- Ebwarb.
- 'Cause I couldn't write a D.
- You were Ebwarb.
- So he's Dabs instead of Dad.
- I'll get it there.
- Okay.
- [Astrid] That's cute.
- You ought to get Mummy to do one.
- Hey, Mums.
- Hello, dear.
- How are you doing?
- Fine. How are you?
Could I get you to do me a favor?
I'm just here getting a tattoo
of Dabs's handwriting,
and I want to get a tattoo
of your handwriting.
Can you just write "Mums"
with a... with a cross
and take a picture of it
and send it to Dabs.
He's also getting a...
He's getting a face tattoo as well.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, good.
These are the ones I got here…
- Yeah.
- …ten years ago.
- Basically, my dad...
- That was three Madison Square Gardens.
And it was just after Grandad passed away.
And that was actually my inspiration
of leaving Los Angeles.
I remember being...
I'd lived in LA for, like, a year.
And I remember being at a party
and you ringing me up and saying,
"Grandad's died,"
then looking round and being like,
"No one here cares."
If I was at home,
my friends would be like,
"Come on. Let's, like," you know,
"talk about it or have a pint
or blah, blah."
But I was in this sort of environment
where it was all, surface level,
fun and happy,
but actually, underneath it all,
there's no real connection
or real love from there.
So that was...
That was the day that I moved back home.
["Lego House" playing]
That's me and the gang.
So there's, um... Nic's up top.
So you see me.
To the left and to the left, that's Nic.
You really didn't give me a chance
at school, did you?
- [laughing]
- [laughing] Guys.
[John] Uh, this is...
These are just gig tickets.
- [Sheeran] Elton John at Ipswich Town.
- [John] Yeah.
No one plays at Ipswich Town.
Maybe every six or seven years
someone will come and play,
and the whole area goes to watch them
'cause nothing ever happens here.
- [Imogen] Supported by James Blunt.
- Yeah.
Supported by James Blunt.
- That's the James Blunt ticket.
- [Imogen] Poor thing.
- From Cambridge.
- At the Junction.
Yeah. Junction. 25th of April 2005.
And now I'm the godfather
of one of his kids.
[John]
This was taken the first gig in London.
[Imogen] Edward insisted on staying
till the end of the gig.
And when we got out of the gig,
we'd been locked in for the night.
- We couldn't get the car out.
- [chuckles]
- Where did we go?
- We walked up to town.
We walked miles to try and find
a hotel we could afford.
Then we all slept in one bed.
It was very uncomfortable. [Chuckles]
From very early on we said to them,
"If you can do something
that you love as a job,
you're gonna have a fantastic life."
And he's living his dream.
- [mumbles]
- [cameraman] I'm a rock star.
[crowd cheering]
["Sing" playing]
♪ It's late in the evening
Glass on the side ♪
♪ I've been sat with you
Most of the night ♪
[crowd cheering]
♪ Ignoring everybody here ♪
♪ Wish they would disappear ♪
♪ So maybe we could get down now ♪
[crowd cheering]
[Sheeran] The Divide Tour was the peak
of where it can go in a pop career.
[crowd cheering]
[Sheeran] Can't really explain
the whirlwind that was.
I'm a solo artist.
And you go out on stage,
and you sing to 60,000 people.
You're all connected as one.
And then you sort of get off
and go into a room where it's silent,
and there's only the sound
of an air-conditioner, and it's just you.
[Sheeran]
You just end up going out on your own
and getting into really
compromising situations.
This is why I took my friends on tour.
[cameraman]
Time to get the show on the road.
[Sheeran] When Cherry wasn't there
on the tour, Nic was, and Josh was,
and Lauren was, and Zak was.
It's like constantly having your foot
in your hometown.
I swear by Nic.
I'm very, very protective of
my group of friends.
Not really many people come in and not,
and not many people leave. [Chuckles]
It's pretty much the same as it's been
for the last ten years.
Really breathe in.
- There's room for three of us.
- My mistake.
The table might fill up,
but we're all right.
Kev is pretty much my husband.
He was there on our wedding day.
He was there on our honeymoon.
He was there
on the birth of our first child.
I've spent more days with him
than with Cherry.
It was when I first met him
and he used to stay out or stay up
till 4:00 a.m. in the morning,
and me and Mark used to get up
and go golf every morning.
Now he's got kids.
He's awake at 6:00 in the morning.
- We can't do that.
- [both laugh]
I didn't have that before.
I was just out in the wilderness,
touring round the world.
It's much better to have
friends there looking out for you.
[in high voice] ♪ Oh, raise me up
So I can stand on mountains ♪
[group laughing]
[friend] That's going around
the whole stadium.
- Is it?
- [group laughing]
- ♪ Sing! ♪
- ♪ Oh ♪
[chanting]
[crowd cheering]
[group] Yeah, yeah.
- ♪ Louder!
- ♪ Oh ♪
[shouting]
I don't feel like I'm employing my friends
because they're actually doing a role
that's actually beneficial
to me and the tour.
It's like a fortress.
Which is really nice.
Josh has always been cool.
- He's always been the cool kid.
- [Josh chuckles]
But we did cello lessons together.
So I was like, "I know you're not cool.
I'm not cool for playing cello,
and you have lessons with me."
- And he used to call me "cello boy."
- I honestly don't remember it.
- It's scarred in my memory.
- Yeah. [Chuckles]
[Josh] I don't really know
many other global superstars,
but he definitely hasn't turned
into an asshole.
I've heard a lot of the other ones do.
[chuckles]
Nic's having a kid in December,
and all hellfire will rain down on him.
[chuckles] Can't wait.
[all counting to three in German]
- ♪ Sing!
- ♪ Oh ♪
♪ If you feel you're falling
Won't you let me know? ♪
We've sort of been
best, best friends since 16.
We would have school parties,
and it would be, like, them and Jamal.
And everyone knows him as
my best friend from London.
Just spitting bars going in.
First day I met him,
I met up with him in Acton where he lives.
Made all these funny videos en route.
I actually moved in at Jamal's that day.
I basically lived in his bedroom.
His mom thought
we were having a relationship.
[both] ♪ Pain everybody go mad ♪
♪ Raging ♪
♪ I'll start ringing up shells
Rage ♪
♪ I'll start ringing up bells
Rage ♪
♪ I'll start bringing round girls
Rage ♪
He grew up loving grime music.
I grew up loving grime music.
And although I'm from Suffolk
and he's from London,
we just feel like the same person.
♪ Yes, you know my face
Gas ♪
[both laughing]
[Sheeran]
Jamal was someone that really helped me.
[Jamal]
You wanna keep answering the questions,
so I don't hear my voice
all the time as well. Yeah?
It was kind of a breakout for me
'cause I mainly film grime and rap.
So when I filmed a folk kind of singer
who was emceeing, rapping and playing a...
Beat boxing... guitar,
it was like,
"Whoa. Who's this ginger kid?"
- Yeah.
- [all chuckle]
- [Sheeran] F64.
- [Jamal] No.
[Sheeran] My success
and his success was tied together.
Like, we came up together.
[Jamal] Good luck, brother.
You're smashing it.
[Sheeran] So I'd been playing
Shepherd's Bush Empire.
He would launch a record label with Sony.
For the next five to ten years is where
I really need to sort of amp it up a bit.
So I'm at my halfway point.
I don't even think
I've done what I've wanted to do yet.
[Sheeran] We're constantly just egging
each other on.
[Sheeran]
One of my favorite nights with Jamal
is just putting on old SBTV freestyles.
Him and me knowing all the words
and we just rapping at each other
until 4:00 a.m.
Like, I live and breathe it. I love it.
♪ Go round downtown
Mmm ♪
♪ Man, I wanna… ♪
- Cheese.
- [friend chuckles]
♪ When I run her back ♪
♪ When I travel, man
And I get the four five back ♪
♪ When I go, boy… ♪
[Sheeran] Friendship's just
this chemistry that happens.
When it's burning, you wanna hang out
every day and do all these things.
It's just about sharing everything.
- We do an F64.
- [chuckles] No, no, no.
So he's pretending. Look.
And when it ends, it's just devastating.
Tributes have been paid
from across the British music scene
to the entrepreneur Jamal Edwards,
who has died at the age of 31.
[reporter] He was the man
who helped launch the careers
of some of British music's biggest names.
His groundbreaking work
and legacy in British music
and culture will live on.
[Sheeran] Jamal died in the morning,
and I was at his mum's house at midday.
Because in Caribbean culture
they have a thing called a nine nights.
So you go to the family home
for nine days and nine nights,
then on the ninth night
they throw a big party.
I had friends in school
whose parents passed away
when they were, like, 14.
And I looked back on it,
and I'm like,
"That is when you became an adult.
I became an adult recently,
but that's when you became an adult
because grief instantly ends your youth."
The funeral was, like, 30 people,
but he knows, like, 10,000 people.
So this is the first event that
everyone can come to
and come together and remember him.
- [laughing]
- Oh.
- [Brenda] Just... I just can't. I've been...
- [Sheeran] You all right?
- Is it healing?
- Yeah. Everything okay?
- Yeah, good. I love these by the way.
- I've got one for you.
- Have you?
- I've got one for you.
- Amazing.
- Who's coming today?
Um, everything's all good?
Everything is cool? It's chilled?
He's here somewhere.
I've... I've lost my boy.
- There he is.
- [Sheeran] I saw that.
- He's here. [Chuckles]
- [guest] We stared at that for a while.
[guests chattering]
I got this... Me and Jamal,
on our 21st birthdays,
bought matching watches.
How are you? Nice to see you, man.
Good. I've literally flown back for this,
and then I fly out tomorrow.
[guest] You can never have too much.
[Jamal] That's only 50 seconds.
I can't really do more than that.
I don't know all the song.
[Jamal] It needs to be
at least a minute and 30 seconds.
Okay. Um.
♪ I'm on a bad man ting
I don't play tennis, play badminton ♪
[both laugh]
[guests chattering]
[photographer] One.
[guests chattering]
[chuckling]
Can you be gangsta with a bucket hat?
I just feel such a weird, like...
I don't know.
I know everyone should be having fun.
That's the whole point.
I feel so... just lost in there.
[Jamal] Look up.
[chuckles]
- Tell me when to look up.
- [Jamal] Aight.
- And look up.
- [both laughing]
[Jamal] What is that look?
Not liking the...
All right, do it again.
Wait, that light's off-put...
- [crewman] Too much?
- [Jamal] Yeah.
- Aight.
- Tell me when.
[Jamal] Three.
Look up.
[Jamal chuckling] Stop. You can't...
Why you laughing, bruv?
Keep a serious face. Like, there's no…
When it's down, it's gonna...
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. [Chuckles]
- Aight.
Like, this is his first birthday
that he hasn't been here.
And this is his first cookout
that he hasn't been here.
And his... You know.
He died six months ago.
It's still like very, very raw.
I'd never been to a burial.
This is the first time that,
like, you know, you're there.
Someone's singing a hymn,
then suddenly someone hands you a shovel.
And then suddenly you're putting dirt
on your mate's grave,
and it's very real.
It's very, very real.
His grave is... We go past it quite a lot.
And... And it just feels so weird
that he's in amongst loads of people
that he didn't know.
Like, it's obviously a grave site.
And the person next to him...
And the person has all, like,
wreaths saying like, "dad"
or like, "sister" or "mom."
And it's just all just pure sadness.
Of... It's... It's horrible.
And I know...
I know everyone goes through it.
I know it's a common thing
you can't avoid.
But, yeah.
[device ringing]
- [Cherry] Hello. Hey.
- Hey, darling.
Ah, shit. Did I just ring
while you were putting them down?
- Yeah. Been having…
- You sound rough.
…having moments.
Yeah.
It was actually a really good turnout.
It was nice.
[sniffs] Yeah, no. Um...
Yeah. I'll see you, um, Sunday though.
[Sheeran] Love you.
[Sheeran] Bye.
[patrons chattering]
[Sheeran] Where you guys from?
- [patron] I live round the corner.
- West?
I just moved from Leicester,
to up the road.
- Yeah?
- But this lovely lady, this is my cousin.
So we decided to go out for some dinner.
And I've been telling her about this place
'cause I was like
"Ed Sheeran's been there!"
And look it's Ed Sheeran!
- [laughing]
- We've been looking at your picture.
- This is my...
- What are you doing here?
So my friend that showed me this place,
it's his birthday today.
He passed away six months ago.
- We're just...
- This is what I'm saying.
Yeah, he was February 20th,
so we're having a, like...
Just had a big party in East for him.
You having a reunion?
Yeah, but you know when it gets a lot
- and you just wanna have a moment?
- Mellow.
Welcome to the ends, bruv!
- No, but this is what...
- [server laughing]
- He's been here for years.
- [patron] Really?
Old-school.
When Jamal used to live
next to the estate, we used to live there.
When he was playing guitar, rapping.
He was the ginger guy.
[all laughing]
- Now look at this one.
- [server] No, well, it is true that one.
[Sheeran]
Everyone in Acton knows him. Everyone.
Like, this is his spot.
I don't even know how to describe it.
Like, being on my own
and being able to remember Jamal
in the spot
that he always took me to, it make...
Like, I feel like I've gone there.
I've done... To support.
Now I've come here and I feel like…
I don't know.
I, like... I miss him and I love him.
And I'm... Like, I'm here and,
like, really remember the good times.
But I have so many
great memories of Acton.
Feels great.
D, can we stop en route
and get some Hennessy?
Yeah.
- Jamal called it, "Hennessing can happen."
- [ice cubes clatter]
[crewman chuckling]
"Hennessing" can happen.
Or "Hennessing is possible."
- [security chuckles]
- [crewman] What, with apple juice?
- [security] That's right.
- [Sheeran] Yeah.
The mural that people go to
when he passed away
was actually made when he was still alive.
That's how much people appreciated him.
Like, it was all…
People were celebrating him
when he was here.
I think he liked it.
[lighter clicks]
[security] You all right? Huh?
[Sheeran] Hmm.
Let's go back home.
["Bloodstream" playing]
[crowd cheering]
I feel, like, a lot of times
in a kinda chaotic storm
where you're just trying to stay level.
Like, I hadn't really grown up
until I felt grief.
Loss, it just took over my life.
♪ I've been spinning now for time ♪
♪ Couple women by my side ♪
♪ I got sinning on my mind now ♪
♪ Sipping on red wine ♪
♪ I've been sitting here for ages ♪
♪ Ripping out the pages ♪
♪ How'd I get so faded? ♪
♪ How'd I get so faded? ♪
♪ Oh, no, no don't leave me lonely now ♪
♪ You've loved me
How'd you never learn now? ♪
♪ Ooh, colored crimson in my eyes ♪
♪ One or two could free my mind ♪
♪ Ooh, oh ♪
♪ All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line ♪
♪ All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line ♪
♪ All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line ♪
♪ All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line ♪
♪ All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line ♪
♪ All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line ♪
♪ All the voices in my mind
Calling out ♪
♪ I saw scars upon her ♪
♪ Tell me when it kicks in ♪
♪ Tell me when it kicks in ♪
[crowd cheering]
♪ I saw scars upon her ♪
♪ Tell me when it kicks in ♪
♪ Brokenhearted now ♪
[crowd cheering]
[crowd cheering]
[fan 1] Whoo!
[fan 2] Whoo!
- [crew chattering]
- [Nic] You good?
Just… kind of mad
what was yesterday and what is today.
- [Nic] Yeah.
- You know?
- [Nic] Did you think about it on stage?
- Whole time, yeah.
I was just, like...
Just trying to, like, hold it together.
[groans] Oh, man.
You kind of, like...
Obviously, it's good to be distracted
and have things,
and, like, playing to a crowd
like that is great, and...
But it's, like…
Like, at one o'clock this morning,
I was at the mural, and…
Yeah. It's just… kind of weird.
I was thinking, "I don't want to cry
in front of 78,000 people."
Um. And I found myself
really close at times.
Um.
Yeah.
It's just mad
it's just straight back to it.
Fly home.
Go and do something really intense,
and then straight back to…
The show must go on.
I still feel so much love
from that side of the industry
that Jamal introduced me into,
especially in the grime scene.
Every single person in the UK industry,
of any note, from Dave…
- Thanks so much.
- [crowd cheering]
- …to Stormzy…
- This one means so much to me.
…he was part of their journey.
Jamal is so intertwined
with everyone's stories
that you can't not keep the memory alive.
I had Fire boy
who couldn't come on tonight's tour...
Last night at Wembley Stadium.
This is the biggest ticketed show
I have ever done in England.
And what better way to celebrate it
than to bring out Big Mike.
Cheese.
- Glasgow!
- [crowd cheering]
Stormzy!
Which is mad
because you can do a Wembley anyway.
Me and Stormzy first met in 2015.
I guess over the years
it's just turned into
a real bond of love,
friendship, brotherhood.
He was there
the day after Jamal passed away.
He drove to my house
and came and comforted me.
A lot of the time when I do it,
because of the in-ears...
[Sheeran] That's what I'm saying.
At the end of one of the songs,
just take it out.
- That's what I was gonna tell you.
- Watch and listen.
Just hear the screams.
Grateful, man.
Grateful to have a brother like this
who does five Wembleys
and you get to prance in and just,
"Now I've come for the ride."
[Sheeran] When you gonna put on yours?
I wanna do this once.
That once, and then...
- That's what I said. [Chuckles]
- What's this one? What's this here?
- Twelfth.
- [whispers] Fucking hell.
[Sheeran] There's not any fake bullshit.
He would be as big as he is without me.
I would be as big as I am without him.
But when we come together it's magical.
Like, you would want to
bottle something like that up
and every now and then just open it.
- [crowd cheering]
- That was, aah.
Very big crowd, hey?
- [chuckling]
- [stagehand] Watch above there.
- Oh, shit.
- Watch your head there.
[Sheeran] Now, Wembley.
This February, sadly we lost
a very important person in music
who was also my best friend,
Jamal Edwards.
You would know him as SBTV,
but he was a fantastic, fantastic man.
I would not be on this stage
were it not for him. This one's for Jamal.
["Take Me Back to London" playing]
Now, London…
- [screaming]
- Whoo!
This needs no introduction.
Make some noise!
[cheering intensifies]
Hey!
♪ Jet plane headed up to the sky
Spread wings in the clouds getting high ♪
Whoop. Whoop.
♪ We ain't hit a rave in a while ♪
♪ So take me back to London-don-don ♪
♪ I do deals but I never get twanged
Moves that ain't ever been planned ♪
♪ Know goons that were never in gangs
Where I'm from, chat shit get banged ♪
♪ Where I'm from
Chat shit, let the 12-gauge rip ♪
♪ Yeah, it's sick how it fits in my hand ♪
♪ I don't mix with the glitz and the glam
Or these stupid pricks on the gram ♪
- ♪ It's that time ♪
- ♪ Whoo ♪
- ♪ Big Mike and Teddy are on grime ♪
- ♪ Whoo ♪
♪ I wanna try new things
They just want me to sing ♪
♪ 'Cause nobody thinks I write rhymes ♪
♪ Now I'm back in the bits with my guy
Give me a packet of crisps with my pint ♪
♪ I hit my friends up ♪
♪ Go straight to the pub
'Cause I haven't been home in time ♪
- ♪ Bass high, middle night, ceiling low ♪
- ♪ Ceiling low ♪
♪ Sweat brow drippin' down
When in Rome ♪
- ♪ Whoo, whoo ♪
- ♪ No town does it quite like my home ♪
♪ So take me back to London-don ♪
[crowd cheering]
I've been in the industry now for a very,
very long time.
Honest to God, hand on heart,
this man is such a wonderful human being.
He's… [chuckles]
Like, aside from... aside from music,
he's been there for me
in some of the darkest times of my life.
And I'm so honored to know him
and bring him on stage for you guys.
Wembley, one more time,
make some noise for Stormzy!
[crowd cheering]
Jamal's favorite quote is,
"The goal is not to live forever,
it's to create something that will."
That's Jamal's legacy.
It's not SBTV.
And it's not Stormzy becoming
the biggest rapper in England.
And it's not me making
a career out of myself.
Jamal's legacy is
basically empowering young kids
to be able to be whatever they wanna be.
Because all he did was get a camera,
start filming his mates
and put it on YouTube when he was 14.
Self-belief every day, all day.
That's... That's... I can't say it enough.
[Sheeran] I don't want my legacy to be
"Shape of You."
I don't want my legacy to be "Perfect."
Like, I would love for my legacy to be
essentially saying to kids,
"Just do what you want to do."
[residents chattering]
[Sheeran] Kids in Ipswich, which is not,
like, a glamorous place at all.
But I want kids in Ipswich to be like,
"Ed's from Ipswich. I'm from Ipswich.
I can do it too."
- [pedestrian, indistinct]
- Huh?
About to play a show at the town hall.
You wanna come?
- Fantastic, thank you.
- Just here for free.
- That'll be a pleasure.
- Come on down.
- Wow. We saw you early in the year.
- Yeah?
- For free?
- Yeah. Whereabouts?
- Wembley.
- Amazing. Thanks for coming.
[crowd chattering]
- [crowd member 1] Come on, Ed.
- How you doing?
- All right. Is that on?
- [crowd cheering]
How you guys doing?
First gig on the,
uh, High Street in a while.
- Good to be back.
- [crowd cheers]
♪ When your legs don't work
Like they used to before ♪
[crowd whistles, cheers]
♪ And I can't sweep you off of your feet ♪
♪ Will your mouth still remember
The taste of my love? ♪
♪ Will your eyes still smile
From your cheeks? ♪
♪ People fall in love in mysterious ways ♪
♪ Maybe it's all part of a plan ♪
♪ I'll just keep on making
The same mistakes ♪
♪ Hoping that you'll understand ♪
♪ But, baby, now ♪
[crowd member 2] Whoo!
♪ Take me into your loving arms ♪
♪ Ay, yeah… ♪
I never got into music being like,
"I wanna sell out Wembley Stadium."
I'd seen people do gigs and get paid £50
or people do weddings and get paid £200.
I knew it was possible.
♪ Thinking out loud… ♪
If I was just making a living doing music,
I'd be just as happy.
Because you're just doing
the thing you love.
♪ Where we are ♪
[crowd cheering, applauding]
To the hot dog man that's leaving,
I love you!
- [crowd chuckles, cheering]
- You're the man.
And that's actually
the key to happiness I think.
[crowd chattering]
I have a question. Is that your guitar?
- If I give you this guitar after this…
- [crowd cheering]
And this... And this speaker,
will you pro...
- How old are you?
- Ten.
Ten. So I started playing guitar at 11,
and I couldn't play guitar before that.
If I give you this, you promise...
You make him practice every day?
- Every day. Every day.
- [crowd cheering]
[indistinct chatter]
[crowd cheering]
[crowd chattering]
[Sheeran] Major, major life things happen,
and you just have to remember that
the day will end.
And there will be another day.
And that day will end.
Music's always been like therapy to me.
It was a way for me to get
my thoughts and feelings down as a kid.
- [crewman] Bye-bye.
- [Sheeran] See you later.
And it works.
Really works.