The 100 best London songs
No. 100: ‘The City’ – Ed Sheeran (2011)
Watch Ed Sheeran perform ‘The City’
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‘The City’ – Ed Sheeran (2011)
"This town is alive, With lights that blind keep me awake..."Despite not looking old enough to have left the Scouts let alone the bosom of his family, dubstep-folkie Sheeran (according to this song, at least) is a streetwise character with a cynic's eye for the pleasures and pitfalls of the big city which he credits with informing, inspiring and ultimately improving his music. Nice work, London.
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Nina Nesbitt
Tue Mar 12 2013, Islington Assembly HallPrecocious 18-year-old singing talent, who's half-Scottish half-Swedish and was discovered and ch...
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