Ed Sheeran Instagram – This is gonna be my final thing I release for a while, certainly my final collab for a very long time it’s time to knuckle down into the next big album mode. But what a fitting way, by stopping with one of my favourite artists of all time. I’ve been a fan of @foyvance since my early teens, I used to go watch him with my dad and wait til after to talk to him. He used to end his shows back then with this song Guiding light, but he never released it. When I got successful I met him as an equal and we jammed in Dublin after a show, I asked him to come on tour with me, and he did for a few years. We ended up writing together on Multiply with songs like Tenerife Sea and Afire Love. It was kinda a dream come true to be working with an artist I adored so much. I always asked him why he had never released Guiding Light, as it was my favourite song of his, and one day we sung it together at the Ryman in Nashville in 2013, this is a video from the day we sung it together for the first time then, that I found this morning. Afterwards he said he’d record it, but could I sing it with him. So we recorded it and released it, and later I got to sign him to Gingerbread Man and make these wonderful albums with him. So 10 years on he’s done a new version, this time with @eltonjohn, @keithurban and myself. It’s beautiful, the amazing Johnny McDaid produced it, and I hope you love it. Out now on all platforms, look out for the music video! See you sometime next year when we press Play again on pop, and have a good holiday season x