Ed Sheeran takes the stage alone amid tour chaos
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What a fortnight it has been for Ed Sheeran who has found himself in the centre of one of the biggest controversies in the music industry this year, raising the question of free speech and whether politics belong on a concert stage.
Now Sheeran has said, out loud and into a microphone, what he thinks.
Opening his Loop Tour show at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on September 19, Sheeran took the stage alone. There was no support act, and no warm-up. He told the crowd the controversy surrounding his tour was about something far bigger than his music.
“I’ve had to take, and make, difficult decisions, and I am making mistakes, and I’m so, so sorry,” he said.
He told fans he had never wanted to be an activist musician, but the situation had placed him at the centre of “an important and passionate argument about freedom of speech and the most complex political issue on the planet”.
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