Ed Sheeran’s sweet nod to his beloved fans pulled at listeners heartstrings in his brand new music video for his latest hit Old Phone.

The singer, 34, who released the single last week, featured his fans throughout the video to share their old memories from their phones.

To promote the new song, Ed visited his home town as well as Ipswich, Mᴀssachusetts in the US for one night to sing the song.

The video – which released on Thursday – features fans from the US sharing their poignant memories of friends and family who have pᴀssed, like Ed who found messages of his late friends on his old phone.

At the start of the video Ed talks about the background to the song, delving into the bittersweet memories evoked by rediscovering an old phone, unearthing text messages and pH๏τos from cherished moments with people who are no longer here. 

The chorus sings: ‘Conversations with my ᴅᴇᴀᴅ friends, messages with all my exes, I kind of think that this was best left. In the past where it belongs. I feel an overwhelming sadness, but for the friends I do not have left.’ 

Ed Sheeran’s sweet nod to his beloved fans pulled at listeners heartstrings in his brand new music video for his latest hit Old Phone

The singer, who released the single last week, featured his fans throughout the video to share their old memories from their phones

The end of the video features Ed performing an intimate gig with his fans at the Old Phone Pub – which he built.

It comes after last week Ed shared a series of throwback snaps to Instagram, including a fun selfie with Taylor Swift, while also reflecting on his copyright trial.

The star launched a new Instagram account to celebrate his ’emotional’ new single Old Phone.

The account featured a number of never-before-seen pictures, texts, and lyric notes, and came ahead of the release of his new single on Thursday April 29.

Ed was inspired to write the new song when revisiting his old phone during the copyright lawsuit around his hit single Thinking Out Loud.

At the time, Ed denied he had ripped off Marvin Gaye’s soul classic Let’s Get it On for his 2014 hit song, and in 2023 was cleared in court.

Explaining the new account, Ed penned in a new Instagram post: ‘Put the sound on and have a listen. I got rid of my phone 2015, and moved onto email full time. I just turned my phone off December ’15 and that was it.

‘When I got sued, the judge ordered me to give up my old devices to the other sides lawyers, to look through messages, emails, voice notes, videos, etc, to see if there was anything on there to help their case. In the process, I switched on my old phone.

The video – which released on Thursday – features fans from the US sharing their poignant memories of friends and family who have pᴀssed, like Ed who found messages of his late friends on his old phone

At the start of the video Ed talks about the background to the song, delving into the bittersweet memories evoked by rediscovering an old phone, unearthing text messages and pH๏τos from cherished moments with people who are no longer here

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‘The first message was from my friend Jamal Edwards, who had recently pᴀssed away. The second was from my ex girlfriend who I hadn’t been in contact with for years. The third was a family member I haven’t spoken to in a decade. And so on.’

Ed shared pictures with pals including Taylor and the late Jamal Edwards, with the musician admitting looking through the phone made him emotional for a number of reasons.

Ed continued: ‘It felt like a time capsule, a time of life that I was in, and living at that time in 2015. Turning it on really spun me out, I found myself scrolling messages and conversations with people who are no longer here.

‘I found myself crying at messages to friends who are now ᴅᴇᴀᴅ, who I won’t get to speak to again. I found old pH๏τos of me with people I was so close to then, but we’ve lost touch since.

‘The whole experience was such an emotional journey. I wrote the song Old Phone on my own at 2am whilst jet lagged in India finishing the album, and recorded it that morning. It feels like a song that should’ve been on my debut album, but also a song I couldn’t have written until I experienced real life things happening to me.’

Speaking on the meaningful new song, Ed added: ‘It makes me emotional to sing, I hope it finds some emotion in you too. 

‘Maybe it makes you switch on your old phone and have a look at where you were a decade ago too. Whatever it does, I’m glad I wrote it. Old Phone, out Thursday 11am EDT / 4pm BST’