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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Ed Sheeran's Reveals the Wild Story Behind His Song "Old Phone" · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, At Sharon released his emotional fan favorite track
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  Speaker 2: Old Phone, and he's revealed just how ancient that cell
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  Speaker 2: really was that inspired the track.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. He told the crowd at a recent show
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  Speaker 1: in Australia, he hasn't even owned a cell phone since
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's actually relied on email ever since giving it
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  Speaker 3: up for his mental health, and he hadn't looked back
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  Speaker 3: until he was legally required to.
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  Speaker 2: You might recall. Edwards sued for copyright infringement over Thinking
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  Speaker 2: out Loud. Marvin Gay's estate claimed he'd ripped off Let's Get.
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  Speaker 1: It on, and Ed was insistent he hadn't, so he
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  Speaker 1: decided to fight it in court, and part of that
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  Speaker 1: case required he hand over all electronic devices from that era.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Thinking out Loud was written in twenty fourteen when
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  Speaker 2: Ed still used that phone, so he had to dig
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  Speaker 2: it out of a box and send it off.
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  Speaker 3: But before he did, to make sure it worked and
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  Speaker 3: so on. He powered it up, turned it off and
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  Speaker 3: it instantly felt like a time machine, so he wrote
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  Speaker 3: old Phone.
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  Speaker 2: Not only did it win that case, the lawsuit itself
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  Speaker 2: basically resulted in another win, a hit song old Phones
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