{"id":29766,"date":"2019-08-28T06:14:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T12:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1068559"},"modified":"2019-08-28T06:14:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T12:14:43","slug":"ed-sheeran-gives-emotional-goodbye-as-he-announces-18-month-break-from-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/ed-sheeran-gives-emotional-goodbye-as-he-announces-18-month-break-from-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran Gives Emotional Goodbye As He Announces 18 Month Break From Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"46.494123408423\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201971\/rs_634x1024-190801125820-634-ed-sheeran.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Ed Sheeran\" alt=\"Ed Sheeran\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">JM Enternational\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"34.685166498486\">\n<p>After more than 250 performances on the road,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ed_sheeran\">Ed Sheeran<\/a><\/strong> may be headed back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/819964\/ed-sheeran-is-back-with-new-music-listen-to-shape-of-you-and-castle-on-the-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">castle on the hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the final stop of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1000944\/you-won-t-believe-how-much-money-ed-sheeran-made-per-day-touring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Divide<\/em> tour<\/a> earlier this week, the Grammy winner&nbsp;began thinking out loud and announced&nbsp;his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/videos\/258198\/ed-sheeran-reflects-on-taking-a-break-from-the-spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">break from music<\/a>.&nbsp;&#8220;As you may or not know, I&#8217;ve been on the <em>Divide<\/em> tour for over two years now and this is the last day of the whole thing,&#8221; he told the crowd in Ipswich, England, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tvandshowbiz\/9809225\/ed-sheeran-break-music-world-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Sun<\/a><\/em>. &#8220;There is something very bittersweet about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love that you guys are here and we are ending it in Ipswich,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;This is my last gig for probably 18 months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After all,&nbsp;the&nbsp;nonstop&nbsp;can take a toll.&nbsp;&#8220;We&#8217;ve played all around the world,&#8221; Sheeran said. &#8220;Glastonbury, Wembley Stadium. All these amazing venues, America, New Zealand, Australia, Asia, South America\u2014it&#8217;s been a wild one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was told before I came on that, now, at the end of this tour, I&#8217;ve played to nine million people around the world,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It is the biggest tour ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.971370143149\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13.541922290389\">\n<p>And now, it&#8217;s time to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/899954\/ed-sheeran-reflects-on-going-two-years-without-a-cell-phone-and-his-famous-digital-detox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">take a step back<\/a>. &#8220;It kind of feels like, in a weird way, that you&#8217;re breaking up with a girlfriend that you&#8217;ve been with for years,&#8221; the Brit confessed. &#8220;It sounds odd but it has been a long tour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before his final bow, he showed his appreciation for everyone involved in making&nbsp;<em>Divide<\/em> such a success.&nbsp;&#8220;Thank you to everyone who has given me a chance,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;&#8220;This is my last song. I wrote this when I was 15 years old. See you in a few years time. Thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.817174515235\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"20.127423822715\">\n<p>Earlier this summer, while promoting his album&nbsp;<em>No. 6 Collaborations Project<\/em>,&nbsp;the 28-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1056377\/5-biggest-revelations-from-ed-sheeran-s-most-candid-interview-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed his marriage<\/a>&nbsp;to longtime love&nbsp;<strong>Cherry Seaburn<\/strong>&nbsp;and opened up about how she constantly supports&nbsp;this wild&nbsp;reality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tour a lot,&#8221; he said&nbsp;told iHeartRadio&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>Charlamagne&nbsp;Tha God<\/strong>. &#8220;I spend a lot of time on the road.&nbsp;And I have to go on the road and have this belief that, you know, this is meant to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I constantly wake up every day with Cherry and I&#8217;m just like, &#8216;Why the f&#8211;k are you with me? You could literally be with whoever you wanted, and you&#8217;ve chosen me,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1056275\/ed-sheeran-confirms-he-s-married-on-new-album-no-6-collaborations-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he mused<\/a>. &#8220;And I&#8217;m saying all of the things that I think are wrong with me, but you still want to be with me.&#8217; And I just find that amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1068559\/ed-sheeran-gives-emotional-goodbye-as-he-announces-18-month-break-from-music?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JM Enternational\/Shutterstock After more than 250 performances on the road,&nbsp;Ed Sheeran may be headed back to the castle on the hill. On the final stop of his Divide tour earlier this week, the Grammy winner&nbsp;began thinking out loud and announced&nbsp;his break from music.&nbsp;&#8220;As you may or not know, I&#8217;ve been on the Divide tour for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-24 20:20:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}