Singer Ed Sheeran is opening up about his life before fame and telling the world what it was like to be a struggling musician. One of the biggest discoveries from Ed’s book reveals that from about 2008-2010 he, “didn’t have anywhere to live.” When grant money ran out and Ed couldn’t pay his rent Ed reveals in an excerpt from his book that he slept everywhere from a friend’s house to Buckingham Palace! Ed said, quote: “I didn’t have anywhere to live for much of 2008 and the whole of 2009 and 2010, but somehow I made it work.” In January 2011, Ed released an EP, No.