Ed Sheeran: Elton John Rang Me On Christmas Morning, Said 'You Should Do A Christmas Record'

In a recent radio interview on Apple Music 1’s Rocket Hour, Ed Sheeran and Elton John sat down to promote their newest holiday single ‘Merry Christmas’.

John recalls calling Sheeran last year to propose the project: 'I'm so excited about this. I rang you up last Christmas and said, "You should write a Christmas record.”'

Sheeran responded:' I found the voice note from that day actually. Yeah, so Elton rung me Christmas Day and said “You should do a Christmas record.” And I was like, “I don't really know”. And I said, “Would you do another one?” He said, “Well, if I did another one, it would have to be a duet, I'm not going to do another solo.” So I said, “Oh we should do it together.” But then when we were planning it, I remember, because “=” was coming out, I was maybe 20, 22, maybe, 23. And I, midway through the year, just realised, why the f*** would we postpone anything? We're going to have a great Christmas together. We had such fun shooting the music video and it's so good. I love it so much.'