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Ed Sheeran has teased a "cool" collaboration with John Mayer in his upcoming new album. Sheeran revealed that Mayer would be featured not as vocalist, but a guitarist to play a guitar solo in one of his songs.

He said that he somewhat did a terrible guitar solo and thought that Mayer perhaps could do better. Sheeran then asked Mayer for a favor, contacted him through email and he agreed to do it. Surprisingly, Mayer is not credited in Sheeran's newest album.

"I got John Mayer on a guitar solo that's uncredited that's quite cool," Sheeran revealed during an interview with WestWoodOne's "Zach Sang Show" on Friday, January 6. "I did a really terrible guitar solo on a song and I was like, 'I bet John Mayer could do this better.' So I emailed him and he did it a lot better."

This is not the fist time Sheeran and Mayer have teamed up. Back in 2015, Sheeran and Mayer performed a duet together at the Grammy as well as on "The Late Late Show with James Corden".

Sheeran is now busy promoting his new album. His last album "x" (pronounced multiply) was released back in 2014. Sheeran announced his newest album through social media on December 13. It marked his return to social media after taking a year-long social media hiatus.

Before he took a break from social media, he stated that he did not know how to deal with fame as he explained, "I'm still a pretty simple person anyway, so I'm still living in simpler times. Fame is like, you just have to find a way to deal with it in your own way, and the reason I took the break is I did not know how to deal with it so I wasn't really enjoying it."