The 25-year-old UK superstar tells the BBC his new material was recorded on the Queen Mary 2 on a voyage between New York and Southampton in southern England. The studio was built in a freezer room and dismantled when he left.
“I got the Queen Mary 2 boat [TradeWinds’ style is ‘ship’, Ed,but we’ll overlook it just this once] and built a studio in that because Benny [US record producer Benny Blanco], who made the album, refuses to fly,” Sheeran explained.
“And my biggest market in the world is in the Philippines, and every staff member on the boat was Filipino, so I just had a wave of people come to my room every five minutes asking for selfies, so I spent my whole time taking pictures with Filipino people.”
And how did he find the hospitality onboard? “We weren’t allowed to eat because you have to have a suit,” he lamented. “You have to wear a dinner jacket to eat.”
We bet Mick Jagger never had to put up with this sort of thing...
