As Ed Sheeran returns to the stage amid the fallout from dropping Macklemore as his tour opener, he’s addressing the controversy head-on.
On Saturday, while beginning his Loop Tour stop at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field, the 4x Grammy winner apologized for “making mistakes” in his handling of the situation after pressure from Gillette Stadium owner Robert Kraft and other venues to drop Macklemore over his pro-Palestine onstage remarks.
Meanwhile, protesters gathered outside the Philly stop to call out Sheeran for dropping Macklemore, over which fellow tour openers Finneas, Aaron Rowe and Lukas Graham also exited the tour, along
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