03/03/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Jon Richardson... And Angela

Scanlon. Tonight we are joined by one of the biggest stars on the

planet. He released his third album,

'Divide' and tonight performing twice, it's the unand only, Ed

Sheeran! # When I was six years

old I broke my leg # I was running from my

brother and his friends # Tasted the sweet perfume

of the mountain grass I rolled down # Made friends and lost

them through the years # Driving at 90

down those country lanes # And I miss the way

you make me feel, and it's real # When we watched the sunset over

the castle on the hill # Fifteen years old and smoking

hand rolled cigarettes # Running from the law

through the backfields # Had my first kiss

on a Friday night, # I don't reckon I did it

right # And buy cheap spirits

and drink them straight # Me and my friends have not thrown

up in so long, # Driving at 90

down those country lanes # And I miss the way

you make me feel, # When we watched the sunset over

# One's just barely getting by

# And I can't wait to go home

# I still remember these old country lanes

# When we did not know the answers,

# And I miss the way you make me feel, it's real

# When we watched the sunset over the castle on the hill

APPLAUSE. Absolutely wonderful. Still to come a world exclusive,

when the man performs his new single single 'Supermarket Flowers'.

At a school in Essex, there's beenen unusual delivery. We're trying to

use this beast to create some real high art. And I'm not talking about

the pretentious kind! These are living photographs, pictures formed

by vast crowds of soldiers, photographed from a tower. Created

in America in 1917, they were shot by Essex-born photographer, Arthur

Mole. He had moved to America to join a religious community and his

first pictures had sacred themes. But the talent was spotted by the

military who wanted to show off strength and unity during the war.

Although in the States no-one has heard of his birthplace of L Bexton.

Well, we are putting that right. I have teamed up with photographer

Carl Taylor to create a living photograph of himself in his home

town. This is a real challenge.

Mole used up to 30,000 people for his photographs, we have 650

students from Bexley College. If they is what they are like today, I

wonder what they are like tomorrow! But that's the least of our worries,

to take the living photo, Carl will be over 50 feet high.

We are trying to use Arthur Mole's original technique. This is how he

may have done it on the back of his glass screen. Remember this was 100

years ago. We don't have the same. We have a modern camera but I'm

going to use the small acer tape which I insert to my camera, so I

can see the image that we need on the ground, so the technique will be

very similar. Wow. Great. Great. Before we get

started there is time for a quick art lesson. As the images recede in

the distance, they get smaller! What is clever about what he did is that

the Statue of Liberty doesn't get smaller from the base to the tip of

the torch, it would have been about half a mile. There are 17 people at

the base but in the torch alone, there are 12,000 people! We've only

got 650. But it take as whole day to mark out the image on the ground. By

the time we're ready, the weather is threatening to ruin everything.

It's getting a bit windy, if this starts swaying around we are heading

back down. Let's roll! Come in, come in. One,

two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Come on, we need more of you.

Lots more! Come on! Puff yourself in there.

I hope we've got enough kids! Keep coming! This is where most of the

kids are used up in the hair. In the stretched perspective from where we

see it, it looks a short distance but on the ground it's a long

distance. A century ago, most techniques

showed the might of America's army, today it's unioning an entire

school. Three, two, one, cheese!

ALL SPEAK AT ONCE Cheese! Fantastic! I think we did

it, Adebanji, I think we've nailed it.

Our living photo of Arthur Mole, no longer forgotten about in Lexton.

Give yourselves another round of applause! It's quiet in the studio!

Can with you get a round of applause for Ed Sheeran, please! He's inside!

Ed, it's been a big day. We have something very, very special for

you. Do you want to do the honour, Jon?

Yes. Now, you sang a song, 'Lego House'. We are a fan. Angela has

nothing to do last evening. Wow, did you do that? I may or may

not have done it! That's incredible. That is over 4,000 pieces in there.

Can I keep that?! Yes, it's yours! You can keep it later. We were

afraid you could smash it. You are interested in art, right? Yes.

You designed the album art cover in Damien Hirst' studio.

Yeah, there you go. There was one day I was trying to think what to do

for an album cover. I knew I wanted it bright blue. I had been there and

visited it before. I had seen he had the huge spinning machine for his

spin paintings. So I, he luckily, allowed me to go there. We got

dressed up in the jump suits and he just gave me loads of blue paint

buckets and I just lobbed them. He let you loose in his studio? Yep.

I got covered in paint and he sent them to me. He was really sweet.

When you said that he used them for his spin paintings, I'm assuming he

does not just "lob" paint?! Well, his are more planned.

And he drew a tattoo as well? He drew a shark. I got it tattooed.

Where is it? On the ribs. So you get a tattoo to mark key

events in your life. That is exciting. The first album in three

years. I have had the 'Divide' tattoo since

2011. Just under the watch. Sorry, what

was the question before that? You have 12 songs from three years, how

does it come about? Lots of whittling down. Every time I thought

that the album was done, I would leave it a bit. Then came back and

realised I could do better. So I kept adding and taking away.

A lot of maths! Smart! It got to the point where had someone not just

taken the album and put it out, I could have done that forever. I

didn't know when the album was done. So So someone took it.

Who tells you? Time! I said I wanted to release it on the 1st of January.

So it had to happen. But I had Castle On The Hill recorded and done

for about two years. We never thought it would be a single.

Right, and Multily, your last album, sold 14 million coppice, you had a

target this time, is that right? It was ten.

You exceeded that. You did millions! Right! I reckon this time... I would

like my main target to break France. It was the last market. I never

really broke it on Plus or Multiply. It is just starting on this record.

So I would throve break France. Why why Why is that? They have a big

domestic artists. So 90% is French artists or you are competing with

Rihanna, Justin Bieber. So the business side of things you

have to take seriously? I spend a lot of time creatively creating

something. I don't let business get involved in that. I make what I am

happy with. But in my mind I'm like, why not have the whole world hear

it. It is like a dirty word to say that I check statistics and figures,

people might say that is not real. But it is about the music, so why

not want the whole world to hear it. I don't understand why someone would

make an album and then just say, cool.

Stick it in the glove compartment! It makes sense.

And you managed to make the album without a phone, that is what blue

my mind. And Thinking Out Loud.

The most popular wedding dance ever. On the first record, the A Team was

such a big song. I thought I would never write a bigger song. There was

a cloud over me. Then I shattered that. It was possible. So Thinking

Out Loud was bigger than anyone thought it would be. I thought with

this song, I think it is better, bigger.

Which is the song you are talking about? It is called Perfect.

It feels perfect to you? Yeah. That was the first song I wrote for the

album. The first song I finished for it. My brother composed the strings.

That was the first time we worked together. He is a classical

composer. We asked you to get in touch and

tell us the stories behind your first dance. As always, you didn't

disappoint. As our whole wedding was movie

themed, the only dance we could do was the dance from Dirty cap

dancing. This happened about ten years ago, no-one was learning to

dance for first dances. Learning to dance was daunting. It

took us about six months. Six months.

We put it on YouTube so our friends in America could see.

The next morning I'm going to work and there's a girl sitting next to

me and suddenly there is a huge photograph of you and me... It was a

full page. I asked her to swap newspapers, she

asked why... Because, that was me! That began months and months of

newspapers, magazines, from all around the world. And my friend rang

and then I was like, they want to fly us out to do Oprah Winfrey. I

remember walking out and chatting to opera, and she asked us to do the

dance. We were dancing and the audience

clapping along and then they started to go mad. I am thinking we are not

that good. Then I saw Patrick Swayze asking to cut in.

I am taken over with Patrick. And I shouted let's do the lift. So he did

the lift with me. We met at uni.

Nick became ill Christmas 2013. . He was rushed to hospital. We

realised he had lost his sight. They said it was cancer.

I remember visiting Nick at the hospital and hearing a song on the

radio, and linking the song to us, thinking we were perfect

imperfections. We got a dance teacher to help us out.

When we were practicing, the farmer drove past and stopped. Saying it

was really nice to see young people dancing like in the olden days.

Oh, my God! I think the first dance for us was

symbolic because it was the first time our friends and family had seen

us do something normal since Nick became ill. I wasn't a leading Nick,

the roles had reversed, Nick was being a gentleman and leading his

lady. We had an Irish theme running

through the wedding and Dominik came up with the idea of having a bit of

an Irish jig. Off I went teaching two left feet peak in the living

room every night. Shouting at him to get it right. -- two left feet

sheet. At one point, the wife fell over. Me being a true but I carried

on so if she got back up and joined in she would know where she was up

to. There was a fireman in the room who came to the rescue. I knew she'd

be in good hands. He couldn't have done anything right, if you'd stops

to pick me up I would have shouted at him for getting out of time, if

he hadn't have picked me up, which he didn't, that was wrong, too. That

it with being a married man, you can't do anything right. That's how

you do it if the wife takes a tumble, she's on her own. My wife

whispered to me in our first dance, she said, stop spinning, you're

making me feel sick. That's romantic, isn't it? You're not just

there for the wedding is coming you were there from the beginning, you

are on record with the most romantic date ever where no fewer than five

people got engaged at your gig. Pressure. I remember that. It's a

weird thing because it just started happening after Thinking Out Loud

came out. You'd just here in the middle of a quiet song an eruption

of applause and screaming, I'd be like... I didn't do anything.

Playing the O2 Arena in London, it happened five times in one song. By

the end of it I had clocked. Getting annoying.

For me, it's such an honour to have someone pick such a special moment,

either to one of my songs, at one of my concerts. It's going to stay...

Even if I die and my music dies, it's always that person's memory.

Even if they get divorced they will remember that song forever. I wonder

if anyone here got engaged at that very concert. Surely not! Lauren and

Tom everybody! Congratulations. How did it happen? What did you do? I

got down on my during give me Love and proposed. We were number three.

You didn't get wobbly when you heard two eruptions? Slightly but I knew I

wanted to do it that night. Did you get annoyed when the first people

did it before you? God, that has dropped me in it. Kind of stole my

thunder. When's the wedding? 10th of August. How plans coming along?

Going good, bit stressful but I have my dress and everything. What about

the first dance? Tenerife C. Who sings that?

They've left a guitar next to me, I think... Here is your chance to

rehearse it. Shall we know where the lights.

# You look so wonderful in that address

# I love your hair like that # The way it falls on the side of

your neck # Down your shoulders and back

# We are surrounded by all of these lies and people that talk too much

# You've got the kind of look in your eyes as if no one knows

anything but us # Should this be the last thing I

see, I wanted to know... #. APPLAUSE Congratulations, of course, to

Lauren and Tom. Another special performance from Ed later. First,

here is our street barber Michael Douglas and this film was

tailor-made for Ed and me. Around one in ten of us Britons

belong to a very special and quite Today, I'm going to explore what's

on the heads and in the minds All shades of red are gathering

here at the Candid Arts Trust in London for music,

art and a sense of community. It feels like I'm in the middle

of a real social movement. There is a great kind of spirit

about this whole event, Yeah, everyone is really friendly

and I don't know if it stems But there is one experience

all redheads seem to have in common. Being singled out at school

because of their hair. I, ironically, was bullied

by a ginger girl. I got the comments from

other people but also... I don't know if she was

trying to deflect any It could be psychologically

that backwards. Being a redhead makes you different

without even trying. So I think it is embracing

what makes you stand out. In the past few decades,

ginger has gone from a hair colour that hardly dare speak its name

to being out and proud. There is a host of celebs

who are glad to be red. One of the speakers today

is Jacky Colliss Harvey. She has written a history

of the redhead and at the root of it My mum has blonde hair,

my father's hair was dark. When I arrived I was

a great surprise. But this one gene is enough

to mark you out for life. There is this thing

called the ginger look. If two redheads spot each other,

we always make eye contact. And sometimes we exchange a little

comment as well, like, "great hair". It has been estimated that

40% of the population of the United Kingdom

are carrying the gene. It most definitely is not

going to become extinct. That is one of the great

myths about red hair. I just hope she doesn't say that

when she sees her hair. Of course, there is one way

in which red hair is just It loses its colour

as it gets older. Someone who knows this

all too well is stand-up performer and sitcom writer,

Paul Kerensa. And this is the me I would

like to get back to. If you could make that happen,

that would be fantastic! It's part of me, it's

part of my identity. I feel a bit self-conscious by not

being ginger here today. It's nice to see the tables

turned, absolutely. I am expecting to be bullied at any

minute for being mousey brown! I have always been ginger

and my hair has been And so today I thought

I would dye my hair! Over a thousand gingers have

embraced Redhead Day. They have been entertained,

educated and, who knows, It's fair to say I felt

a bit left out today. # He's got to be sure, he's got to

be soon # He's got to be larger than life

# Larger than life # What's he doing now? Mind my

canary! A massive thank you to my co-host, Jon. Thank you to you,

Angela. Performing Supermarket Flowers, here is Ed Sheeran.

# Threw the day old tea from the cup flowers from the windowsill

# Matthew had made Memories of a life that's been loved

# Took the get well soon cards and stuffed animals

# Poured the old ginger beer down the sink

# Dad always told me don't you cry when you're down

# But mum there's a tear every time that I blink

# Oh I'm in pieces it's tearing me up but I know

# A heart that's broke is a heart that's been loved

# So I'll sing Hallelujah, you were an angel in the shape of my mum

# When I fell down you'd be there holding me up

# He'll say Hallelujah, you're home

# Made the beds, stacked the chairs up

# Folded your nightgowns neatly in a case

# John said he'd drive, then put his hand on my cheek

# And wiped a tear from the side of my face

# I hope that I see the world as you did cause

# I know a life with love is a life that's been lived

# So I'll sing Hallelujah, you were an angel in the shape of my mum

# When I fell down you'd be there holding me up

# He'll say Hallelujah, you're home Hallelujah,

# You were an angel in the shape of my mum

# You got to see the person that I have become

# That when God took you back, he said Hallelujah you're home.#

APPLAUSE CHEERING

These people will turn on anyone they start to doubt.

So what do you believe in, Dougie? Justice.

Have you heard about a plot to free the king?