The 25-year-old UK superstar tells the BBC his new material was recorded on the Queen Mary 2 on a voyage between New York and Southampton in southern England. The studio was built in a freezer room and dismantled when he left.
“I got the Queen Mary 2 boat [TradeWinds’ style is ‘ship’, Ed,but we’ll overlook it just this once] and built a studio in that because Benny [US record producer Benny Blanco], who made the album, refuses to fly,” Sheeran explained.
“And
