Ed Sheeran had to turn down a boozy night out with The Rolling Stones because he’d been partying too hard.
Ed Sheeran turned down a post-show drink with The Rolling Stones because he was exhausted from non-stop partying
The 34-year-old pop star opened for the rock ‘n’ roll legends at the Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City on their 2015 Zip Code Tour, and when hell-raising guitarist Keith Richards invited him to join the band for a nightcap, he refused because he’d already been burning the candle at both ends.
He recounted to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1: “I was grey. I used to smoke then as well. And I look at it now, I really take care of my voice now. And back then I would smoke, drink, stay up all night, be in the studio for 12 hours a day, then do a three-hour show and then go and do it again. I remember what was funny about that run of shows. We had those three Hollywood Bowl shows that I just went out, out, out, out, out. And then I opened up for The Stones and I remember Keith Richards being like, ‘Hey man, we’re going for a drink afterwards.’ And me just being like … I was like, ‘I physically f***** can’t, man. I got to go to bed.’ And I look back at that and I’m like, he just thinks I can’t hang and I could have hung.”
Ed has overhauled his lifestyle since then and vowed to quit drugs in the wake of the death of his best friend Jamal Edwards.
The Bad Habits hitmaker was so shattered by the February 2022 passing of music producer Jamal – who died aged 31 after a cardiac arrest brought on by cocaine and alcohol – he decided to never to “touch [drugs] again”.
He told Rolling Stone: “I would never, ever, ever touch anything again, because that’s how Jamal died.
“And that’s just disrespectful to his memory to even,…
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