When Ed Sheeran recently declared his love for an obscure album he had unearthed in a second-hand record shop in New York, it was big a surprise to the English singer who made it almost 50 years ago. After buying a copy of Allan Taylor's 1978 LP The Traveller, Ed Sheeran may have recognised something of a kindred spirit in his fellow singer-songwriter. Taylor started out performing in pubs and bars, sleeping on floors and sofas with his guitar and little else, several decades before Sheeran