With his confessional new album –(pronouncedSubtract), on the way, Ed Sheeran opened up like never before in his cover-story interviews with senior writer Brian Hiatt, which took place over a week in Auckland, New Zealand. Some highlights follow, or read the whole cover story here. Now that Sheeran has completed …
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