He's not content with being pinned as responsible for the rise and rise of Ed Sheeran - Britain's favourite acoustic gnome told Desert Island Discs that rapping along to Eminem cured his childhood stammer, meaning there is an alternate universe where a stuttering Sheeran never got over his impediment, never released Shape of You, and so its version of 2017 has been an entirely musicless zone, and all the better for it.