Ed Sheeran pays emotional tribute to close friend Shane Warne after sudden death

Kylie Minogue has said Shane Warne’s “light will continue to burn forever” as she led celebrity tributes at the memorial of the Australian cricketer. Stars including Elton John, Robbie Williams and Ed Sheeran also gave tributes to the cricket legend, after he passed away of a heart attack in Thailand earlier this month, at the age of 52.The state funeral was watched by more than 50,000 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, where the cricketer was praised for being an “absolute rockstar” for the way he looked out for other people. Kylie said that Shane had that “star quality and charisma that the world go to know and love” and that it “was the same on the doorstep” as out on the cricket field.

CANBERRA, Australia -- An eclectic array of celebrities including singer Elton John, golfing legend Greg Norman and champion surfer Kelly Slater paid tribute on Wednesday to their friend, former Australian cricketer Shane Warne, at a star-studded state memorial service.More than 50,000 mourners chanted their hero’s nickname “Warnie” at the outset of the service at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as they used to do when he took to the pitch for a match.It was his hometown pitch where he cemented his sporting legend in 2006 by becoming the first bowler in the world to take 700 test wickets.Warne’s death at a Thai resort of a suspected heart attack on March 4 at the age of 52 made headlines around the world.The pain was felt far beyond the cricket world. Tributes came from the fields of music, acting, business, golf, politics, surfing, comedy, poker and others.Elton John dedicated a rendition of “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” to Warne’s children — Brooke, Summer and Jackson — who were among the crowd that included Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.John and fellow British musicians Ed Sheeran, Robbie Williams and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin appeared on a large screen via video.

An 11-day trial over the copyright of Ed Sheeran's hit song “Shape of You" concluded in London on Tuesday, with the judge saying he would take some time to consider his ruling.The British pop star and his co-writers, Snow Patrol’s John McDaid and producer Steven McCutcheon, deny accusations that the 2017 song copies part of a 2015 song called “Oh Why” by Sami Chokri, who performs under the name Sami Switch.Lawyer Andrew Sutcliffe, representing the “Oh Why” co-writers, argued there was an “indisputable similarity between the works” and suggested the chances of two songs that “correlate” appearing within months of each other was “minutely small."The lawyer claimed that Sheeran had “Oh Why” “consciously or unconsciously in his head" when “Shape of You” was written in 2016. He also alleged that Sheeran, who attended the hearing throughout, was dishonest and evasive in giving evidence to the trial.Sheeran and his co-writers say they have disclosed material to the trial and do not remember hearing “Oh Why” before the court case.Justice Antony Zacaroli said Tuesday he would deliver his judgment “as soon as I can.”“Shape of You” was the biggest selling song in the U.K.

The ongoing song theft dispute in London’s high court over Ed Sheeran’s hit ‘Shape Of You’ got to the musicologist stage this week. Both sides in the dispute had expert musicologists analyse the similarities between Sheeran’s song and Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue’s earlier track ‘Oh Why’.

Ed Sheeran has teased his next “curveball” project, confirming that it’s coming very soon.Speaking to The Project NZ about his upcoming Australia and New Zealand stadium tour, the singer-songwriter explained the reasoning behind naming his albums after mathematical symbols.“I was like, ‘I don’t really want to be a poster boy’,” Sheeran said. “So I had sort of figured out a way [to do] it with colours and symbols.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Ed Sheeran’s trip to the High Court in London in a bid to defeat a song-theft lawsuit filed against him and his musical collaborators in relation to his 2017 track ‘Shape Of You’, and the return of LimeWire – not as a piece of peer-to-peer file-sharing software, but as a music NFT marketplace.

Shane Warne vowed to "live less of my life on the edge" before his sudden death at the age of 52.The Australian cricket legend passed away of a suspected heart attack before being found unresponsive in his room at the luxury Samujana Villa resort in Koh Samui, Thailand, on Friday 4 March. Deputy spokesperson of the Thai police, Kritsana Pattanacharoen, said the autopsy report had concluded that Warne had a “natural death”.

WATCH: Summer Warne makes a TikTok with her dad ShaneAs the country mourns his incredible life, we are looking back at his whirlwind love story with British actress Elizabeth Hurley."I feel like the sun has gone behind a cloud forever. RIP my beloved Lionheart," Liz penned on Instagram in the wake of his death.The pair met at the races in July 2010, and when pictures surfaced of them kissing in London their love became official to the world.Fans of the actor and cricket player witnessed their flirty Twitter exchanges, including a particularly sweet one where Liz tweeted, "Oooh … you're such a caveman.

The world was recently shaken with the news that Shane Warne had passed at the age of 52. Shane was a household name after a successful career as an Australian bowler, and fans and friends flooded social media with tributes after his unexpected death. Shane died unexpectedly in Thailand just hours after he paid tribute on social media to cricketer Rod Marsh, who also died of a heart attack aged 74 in the early hours of Friday morning.