We all adjusted as best we could, but how did those whose lives were precariously balanced before the lockdowns, with no savings to draw on or network for support, manage? Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. I think her voice sounds so free and triumphant in this song, especially during the non lyrical vocal parts. We learn about how building site sub-contractors find work and of the shift patterns of hotel doormen, of the inner workings of Billingsgate market, the logistics of selling caramelised peanuts and how “Delia” subsidised her law studies by giving out free magazines. HIGHLIGHTS of his perfomances in 2015 Eric was invited to perform at the Kuala Lumpur International Arts Festival .

Well, good morning there / What a way to start the day / With everything laid bare,” Ed Sheeran sings in the first verse, enthusiastic to be waking up beside his woman.

Let Me Take You By The Hand is an x-ray of life on the streets today: the stories in their own words of those who work and live in our capital.

It felt like a roadtrip song, but it just didn’t match the sort of emotion and it didn’t feel like what I thought a keshi record would sound like. At times her prose is leaden, and you find yourself longing for the next hotel doorman or drug-rehabilitation worker to start telling their story. Written in 1968, McTell presents a series of characters from the streets of London, all of whom survived WW2.The effect was vivid and immediate and has since become the standard way that oral historians present their work. The title of Kavanagh’s book is drawn from Ralph McTell’s song Streets of London, though its most direct inspiration and frame of reference is Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor , a sprawling oral history of those living and working on the streets of Victorian London, published in four volumes in 1861-2. Kavanagh’s own writing is no match either for Henry Mayhew or for the scores of interviewees who furnish her with their vivid self-portraits.

He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner. Hall’s work staked out key policy areas that London regional government in the form of the Greater London Authority – at that stage, barely up and running – would grapple with for the next two decades: insufficient housing, poor transport options, employment insecurity, growing inequality and entrenched poverty.She keeps trying to forgive him for the way he treats her, and they both still love each other, but they both know it could never work because they don't get along. It reminded me of the reasons I will always love London and also why you should avoid being judgemental with the people you meet. Even if they have an address, people are unlikely to divulge it to the chatty middle-class woman with the bright smile who might easily be an undercover spy from Immigration or Benefits. Eric has performed internationally in Japan, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Singapore Malaysia, Athens, Thessaloniki Greece, Nice, and Paris, France.