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When Sir Peter Jackson was searching for the perfect artist to write a song for the second Hobbit film, he took advice from someone very close to home – daughter Katie.

 

The 17-year-old Samuel Marsden Collegiate School pupil urged him to listen to English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran before he toured New Zealand earlier this year.

“She said that I just had to listen to him, and that he could be the perfect fit for the end of the film . . . and she was right,” Jackson told an exclusive fan event at the Embassy Theatre yesterday.

“After I asked him, he jumped on a plane and got here as quick as he could.”

Sheeran was given a special viewing of The Desolation of Smaug – which is not due for release until mid-December – and immediately set to work writing a song, which he called I See Fire, in a room at Park Road Post in Miramar.

“He wrote and recorded it almost all in the same day, so what you’re seeing is a direct reaction to Ed watching the film,” Jackson told the audience.

Sheeran tweeted yesterday to say “big up” to Jackson and his team for the opportunity to record the song.

“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.”

In the clip of Sheeran performing I See Fire, Katie can be spotted filming him with her cellphone while he records the song.

She said yesterday that watching Sheeran during the creative process gave her a “whole new appreciation” for what musicians did.

“It was so impressive. He got the work done so professionally and quickly, and put his own voice into it.”

She had been a Sheeran fan for years, and felt his style of music was the perfect fit for the closing credits.

 

You can read Peter Jackson’s full account of how Ed was brought in to create the film’s end-credits song HERE
 
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