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"Ed Sheeran has announced his first solo song in over two years, taken from the new Hobbit movie Desolation of Smaug. &amp;#039;I See Fire&amp;#039; will be featured during the end credits of the Peter Jackson-directed sequel, which has held a live fan event tonight (November 4).   The song is expected to debut in the next few hours. It will not feature on Sheeran&amp;#039;s next album. Sheeran tweeted his thanks to director Jackson, adding: &amp;quot;I got the chance to produce and play all the instruments on it apart from the cello. Managed to learn violin for a day, hope you all dig it.&amp;quot; Big up Peter Jackson and his team for giving me the opportunity \u00E2\u20AC\u201D Ed Sheeran (@edsheeran) November 4, 2013 Sheeran this week performed a new song live for the first time as part of his US tour. A sneak peek video for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was revealed this evening. Watch it below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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