Ed Sheeran Almost Landed James Bond Song Before Billie Eilish Got The Job

Ed Sheeran has quickly grown to become one of the world’s most popular artists in the past decade. The singer-songwriter has sung and written many classic songs over the years. It would only be fitting for Ed Sheeran to be involved in a James Bond project. It turns out that almost happened.

During a recent interview with Peter Crouch, Ed Sheeran brought up James Bond following a discussion involving the two about the second lives awarded to songs in the form of sports stadium singalongs. To this, Ed Sheeran replied, “It’s like a Bond song. You’ve gotta eventually, as an English singer, want to do a Bond song.” Ed Sheeran also stated that it almost went down.

“I was within a fucking gnat’s pube of doing one, They changed directors and then they just changed scripts and that was it. We’d done all the meetings, I started writing it.”

Ed Sheeran was referring to the fact that No Time To Die originally had Danny Boyle attached as a director. However, Danny Boyle left the project and Cary Fukunaga joined as his replacement. Billie Eilish was awarded the honor of doing the James Bond song whose history-making No Time To Die won an Academy Award.

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