Ed Sheeran broke down in tears during his emotional performance at his late friend Michael Gudinski's remembrance service.
Michael died peacefully in his sleep aged 68 in Melbourne on March 2.
The chart-topping singer flew Down Under especially for the special memorial where he joined stars including Kylie Minogue.
Emotional Ed was choked up on stage at a star-studded Melbourne memorial service held for his musician friend on Wednesday.
He told the audience: "I never get this nervous, I'm really f*****g nervous. So apologies if I mess up the lyrics or anything."
In between songs, Ed paid tribute to his late friend and music icon Michael who he described as a "tornado of joy".
He went on: "It's so hard to put into words how much Michael meant to me, and to all of us who knew him...
"Michael was a tornado of joy. You would know he arrived in the building just by hearing the chaotic bark of his, and you could feel the room get excited about the arrival of his presence...
"We were, first and foremost, friends. He was a father figure and mentor to me."
The singer belted out his new song Visiting Hours to the crowd of more than 7,000 people.
His song was born out of his two weeks of quarantine in Byron Bay where he stayed ahead of the ceremony.
He added: "So I'm extremely, extremely grateful to be here. I know it's a difficult thing to get into this country and I don't take it for granted for all the hard work getting me here and I really, really just appreciated the opportunity to get here.
"In lockdown I was able to have a guitar for quarantine I always find the best way to process stuff is to write songs, be it good news, bad news and here's a song I finished last week."
Michael went down in history for launching the careers of some of the biggest global names in music.
At the age of 20, the musical icon founded Mushroom in 1972 which grew to become Australia's largest independent entertainment group.
