yeah, both an amazing team. ed is a genius, so is amy. you ve taken the song all the way across europe in the last couple of weeks. you ve performed in madrid, in germany, you ve been in serbia. what s been the highlight? you know what? actually, in all the cities we ve been to, we ve tried to do a green lamp session. so this isn t the original green lamp, but, in lockdown, when i was filming in the corner of my shed, there just so happened to be one of these in the corner. so i ve started doing something called the green lamp sessions where, when we have time and we re in a new city, we lljust drop like a 15 minute warning on instagram, like, hey, come and meet us here and we ll sing a couple of songs. and that has been an amazing highlight. # up in space, man. that was mark savage talking to sam ryder, let s wish him well.
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but hoping to change that is the essex singer sam ryder. our music correspondent, mark savage, went to meet him before he heads to turin. # up in space, man! # up in space, man. sam ryder, welcome to bbc breakfast. thank you so much for having me. are you ok? yeah, i m good. what about you, though? it s two weeks to go. mm-hm. what is still on your mental checklist before you go to italy? you know what? ifeel good. touch wood. yep. i feeljust focused, calm, i m just ready to soak it all in and be there and be present for the experience. for people who don t know the sam ryder story, tell us about. tell us about growing up. i grew up in a house of music, not that my parents were musicians, but theyjust loved music. records playing constantly. earth, wind and fire, beautiful south, queen. and even now, they listen to the same records, like, full blast. i mean, full blast, when they re like cleaning the house or mowing the lawn.