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HE SINGS HARD FOR HIS MONEY

HE ONCE slept rough in front of Buckingham Palace and rode the tube in London for hours on end to get some shut-eye when he had nowhere else to go.

But just look at Ed Sheeran now. He recently topped the Sunday Times’ young musician’s rich list for the second year running after his fortune increased by £40 million (R860m) in the past year. This despite the fact he announced in June last year he’d be taking a two-year break from music.

The 29-year-old sensation is the UK’s richest musician under 30 and

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