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Ed Sheeran Performs ‘X’ Deep Cuts for the First Time in a Decade — or Ever — at 10th Anniversary Show

Ed Sheeran performed songs from 'X' for the first time in the decade, and some for the first time ever, at his album anniversary concert in Brooklyn.

But for the record that changed his life, largely solidifying his place in the pop ecosystem with “Thinking Out Loud” and “Photograph,” the singer and songwriter began the celebration early with a special performance at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Wednesday evening. Sheeran, not one to ever take himself too seriously, spent the hours before the show riding around New York on bikes with the members of Laundry Day, the NYC-bred band whose recently viral boom landed them an opening slot at the concert. But when Rolling Stone caught up with Sheeran — now a husband and a father — last year as he released the final album of his mathematics series (2011’s Plus, 2014’s Multiply, 2017’s Divide, and 2023’s Subtract), he had hit a new stride creatively.

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