Rare copy of Ed Sheeran’s first ever demo expected to reach £10,000 at auction

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Ed Sheeran‘s first ever demo has been put up for auction at £10,000.The singer wrote and recorded the ‘Spinning Man’ CD when he was just 13, featuring samples of his early years before he went on to become one of the biggest stars on the planet.He later admitted that 19 of the demos are in his possession because he didn’t want anyone to “get hold of a copy.”But one lone disc has been discovered in a drawer after Sheeran gifted a copy to a friend of his relatives while staying at their house when he was busking in his teenage years.“My brother put it in a drawer and forgot about it,”  the friends’ brother, Kevin – who did not disclose his surname – told PA.“At the time Ed Sheeran was this just this wee, ginger-haired busker and he thought.