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Elton: "Ed Sheeran will have a career as long as mine"
Friday, May 22 2015

Elton John praised Ed Sheeran during the Ivor Novello Awards ceremony in London on May 21, 2015, declaring that the singer-songwriter will have a lengthy career.

Sheeran was at the show to collect the prestigious Songwriter of the Year award, after the success of his chart-topping album and its two number one singles "Sing" and "Thinking Out Loud".

"I have a vested interest in him becasue my company manages him," Elton told the crowd when introducing Sheeran. "He's a delight to work with becasue he has so much enthusiasm for what he does. He loves to embrace other artists, and is always collaborating with other people. Whenever I speak to people when they start out, I say to them, 'Please enjoy it. It's a really special time. For five or six years you will be doing no wrong, and then someone else will come along and you'll find your feet'.

"But this boy next to me will have a career - if he wants to - as long as mine. I am quite confident about that. I hope he doesn't get into half the trouble I got into, and he'd have to marry a man and a woman! But he is an exceptionally wonderful person and an immense talent. We should all be proud of him."

Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran has revealed he regularly receives hilarious emails from Sir Elton John - and he once got caught in an embarrassing situation at US customs when a few contained dodgy videos. "The worst email he ever sent me was, I got to customs in New York once and I had 17 new emails from him and I was like, something must be important. And they were all video attachments, and I downloaded the first one, and yeah - it was good. And I was at customs and it's pretty hard to get in to America anyway without those sort of videos. It happens quite a lot."

But The A Team singer said he had had an even more bizarre encounter at the ceremony in London on May 21, 2015. He said: "To tell you a weirder thing, I went to ACM college for about a month when I was 18 and some dude from ACM just came up to me and told me I'd overpaid my student fee and he gave me 200 quid. So that was a nice surprise and now I've got 200 quid," he laughed, brandishing a wad of cash.

Clean Bandit, Hozier, Black Sabbath and Annie Lennox were among the other big winners at the 60th Ivor Novello Awards, which took place at London's Grosvenor House.

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