George Ezra on quitting the limelight: ‘I don’t feel an urge to continue’

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most successful British musicians of the past decade. Or, at least, say he is George Ezra. ‘So then one of them went, “Oh, can I FaceTime my daughter and get you to say hello?” I said, “Yeah, of course,” and we waited, then this woman picked up and the bloke went, “Look who I’m with!” This poor woman’s face…’ She had absolutely no idea who her father’s new drinking buddy was, so Ezra just grinned, pointed to his own face, and said, ‘It’s Ed Sheeran!’Ezra delights in recounting this tale because it illustrates his curious place in pop culture.

A household name, his three albums have all gone to number one, including the recent Gold Rush Kid. He’s won a Brit Award and drawn huge Glastonbury crowds.

He is streamed on Spotify by more than 15 million people every month, and his biggest singles (Shotgun, Green Green Grass, Budapest) have been as infectious as omicron.

And yet…‘And yet no one really cares about me. ’ Well, I wouldn’t go that far. ‘No, I mean it in a good way, it feels like cake-and-eat-it territory,’ he says.