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Ed Sheeran plays the first of three nights at Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London, England, UK, Europe. This marks the first time a solo artist has played at Wembley Stadium.Full article:
Alice Vincent (reviewer, The Telegraph) : Sheeran may remain the face of the "New Boring", as he was dubbed upon his breakthrough in 2010, but this feels irrelevant given he is the only artist who could currently play Wembley with absolutely no backing track at all.
Instead, he latticed together hits such as Don't and Nina, Photograph and One alongside snippets of classics such as Bill Withers' Ain't No Sunshine and Stevie Wonder's Superstition with complex, tumbling rapped verses over whooping vocals, before looping back to those swooping choruses, uniting his crowd as backing singers. In an age when pop stars sound exactly on stage as they do on record, Sheeran's performance was closer to that of a DJ, keeping dancers on their toes with pleasingly unexpected mixes.
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Instead, he latticed together hits such as Don't and Nina, Photograph and One alongside snippets of classics such as Bill Withers' Ain't No Sunshine and Stevie Wonder's Superstition with complex, tumbling rapped verses over whooping vocals, before looping back to those swooping choruses, uniting his crowd as backing singers. In an age when pop stars sound exactly on stage as they do on record, Sheeran's performance was closer to that of a DJ, keeping dancers on their toes with pleasingly unexpected mixes.