Ed Sheeran Was ‘Damage’ Being Changed By Billie Eilish For James Bond – Hollywood Life

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Ed Sheeran obtained candid a few relatively vital missed alternative in his storied musical profession. The “Form Of You” singer, 31, revealed he had began to place pen to paper for the theme tune on Daniel Craig’s closing James Bond movie, No Time to Die, when he obtained changed by Billie Eilish! “I’m not gonna fake it didn’t harm not doing it,” he admitted on a latest episode of That Peter Crouch Podcast.

@edsheeran was shithoused out of doing a bond tune. @007 You recognize what it’s a must to do to proper this fallacious. pic.twitter.com/KQ1zXrl6bY

— That Peter Crouch Podcast (@PeterCrouchPod) October 21, 2022

The chance was first introduced to Ed when famed Bond producer Barbara Broccoli approached the singer in 2017, per Rolling Stones. Barbara tapped Ed to jot down the theme tune and off he went to just do that. “We’d accomplished all of the conferences, I had began writing it,” he defined on the podcast.

Nevertheless, the Covid-19 pandemic threw a wrench within the works. And with the movie’s music being the final a part of manufacturing to be labored on, per Rolling Stone, by the point it got here to the theme tune, gears had been modified (together with swapping out administrators) and Billie was given the inexperienced mild as a substitute.

“I used to be inside a f***ing gnat’s pube of doing one,” Ed stated on the podcast. “However then they modified administrators, modified scripts and that was it.”

Ed wasn’t turned off an excessive amount of from the expertise, nevertheless, as he stated he would nonetheless be down for the possibility to jot down the spy ditty. “However yea, in the event that they got here again I might be like yea, after all, yeah.”

If it had been to occur, Ed would be part of Billie and a cavalcade of hitmakers taking up a James Bond theme equivalent to Shirley Bassey (Diamonds are Perpetually, 1971), Paul McCartney & Wings (Reside and Let Die, 1973), Tina Turner (GoldenEye,1995) and Nancy Sinatra (You Solely Reside Twice, 1967).

Billie, as followers would know, went on to jot down “No Time To Die” along with her brother and collaborator Finneas, gathering their first number-one single within the UK and an Oscar as well with their unimaginable model!