Ed Sheeran’s first management company dropped him for being ginger and using a loop pedal, his now manager Stuart Camp has said.“The other management actually resigned from him because they said he wasn’t going anywhere”, Camp tells the Straight Up podcast of how he came to work with Sheeran, initially at Elton John’s Rocket Management. “[They told him] he had to dye his hair black, give up the loop pedal and give up the rapping, which I kind of see their point there”.As for whether that company is now kicking itself, he says: “For a long time their website said they discovered Ed Sheeran, which was a cause of hilarity – you didn’t mention the bit where you said he was shit and he went away.
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