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		</div><p>A rare demo made up of love songs written by a 13-year-old Ed Sheeran has sold at auction for £50,000 (€55,000)</p>
<p>Sheeran, 29, made around 20 copies of the album, called Spinning Man, and previously admitted he did not want anyone to “get hold of a copy” so he has 19 in his possession.</p>
<p>One of the demos, which features songs with titles such as Addicted and Misery, was unearthed from a drawer where it had been “forgotten” for many years.</p>
<p>It sold at auction on Tuesday for £50,000, which amounts to about £61,500 when including the buyer’s premium, auctioneers said.</p>
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<p>Auctioneer Paul Fairweather, from Omega Auctions, said: “An incredible price! We expected it to sell well but that certainly exceeded our expectations.</p>
<p>“It was a fierce battle between four or five very serious bidders and we were blown away with the final price.”</p>
<p>Sheeran was staying with relatives and sleeping on their sofa, while making money by busking, when he handed a copy of Spinning Man to a friend of the relatives.</p>
<p>The man’s brother, Kevin, 48, who does not want to give his surname, sold the CD.</p>
<p>“My brother put it in a drawer and forgot about it,” he told the PA news agency last month.</p>
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<p>In his book, Ed Sheeran: A Visual Journey, the star, who now has an estimated fortune of more than £200 million, said he wrote the songs after his first love left him heartbroken.</p>
<p>“In 2004, I made my very first album, Spinning Man, named after a picture that my dad had,” he said.</p>
<p>“I burnt the CDs myself and made the covers. There were 14 songs, and they were all songs that rhymed.</p>
<p>“One lyric went: ‘I’m a typical average teen if you know what I mean’.</p>
<p>“There are probably 20 copies of Spinning Man in existence, and I have 19 of them. I don’t want anyone else to get hold of a copy.”</p>
<p>Also sold at the auction was Jimi Hendrix’s pink feather boa, which fetched £14,500.</p>
<p>The star wore the accessory during his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival, which catapulted him to fame in 1967.</p>
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