Adele in The Gentlewoman

 

Adele

Text by Jude Rogers
Portraits by Alasdair McLellan
Styling by Jonathan Kaye

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Issue n° 3, Spring & Summer 2011

2011 saw a perfect start for Adele Adkins, a British singer with incredible international appeal. When her second album was released in January, it went straight to the top of the iTunes charts in 16 countries. Meanwhile, her debut album returned to the top 10. Born in north London into a clan of strong women, Adele grafts hard over her songs, which are based on her own experiences – in the case of this particular album, a crushing break-up. The events behind her lyrics still sting, and you hear it as soon as she starts to sing. Adele is a legitimate heiress to the great tradition of amazing torch singers. She’s also an adorable, down-to-earth girl.

 

Adele

The long read

Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice?

More and more singers are cancelling big shows and turning to surgery to fix their damaged vocal cords. But is the problem actually down to the way they sing? 

by Bernhard Warner
Thursday 10 August 2017

“Idon’t even know how to start this,” Adele wrote in an online letter to fans on 30 June. The previous night, she had played the second show of a sold-out, four-night residency at Wembley Stadium. These dates, in front of audiences of 98,000, were supposed to be the triumphant conclusion of her record-setting, 123-date world tour. But on stage, something had just felt wrong.

Adele / 30 review / The defining voice of heartbreak returns

 

Mind-boggling levels of success … Adele. Photograph: Simon Emmett

Adele: 30 review – the defining voice of heartbreak returns

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While the topic of her divorce is all-consuming, the singer seems to be pushing gently at the boundaries of what people expect of her

ALEXIS PETRIDIS
17 November 2021

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here is a sense in which 2021’s biggest single – 84.9m streams in a week on one platform alone; straight to No 1 in 25 countries; a song that received more first-week plays on US radio than any other song ever – wasn’t so much a comeback as an act of global reassurance. The world may recently have lurched from one unimaginable crisis to another, but Adele’s Easy on Me brought with it the message that at least one thing hasn’t changed: Adele Adkins is still heartbroken and belting it out over a gentle piano and tasteful orchestration.

 

Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey used her interview with Adele to quiz her about the dark lyrics
in her new album Photograph: Joe Pugliese

Adele opens up to Oprah about divorce and being a single parent

London-born singer interviewed in same spot as Harry and Meghan in run-up to release of new album

Jamie Grierson
Mon 15 Nov 2021 00.01 GMT

The thundering juggernaut that is Adele’s marketing campaign for her new album, 30, pulled in at the Oprah Winfrey Show on Monday, where the record-breaking artist opened up to the Queen of America about the struggles of divorce, becoming a “single parent” and juggling her career.

Adele performs during the One Night Only concert special in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Before the concert, she sat down for a candid interview with Oprah Winfrey.

 

Weight loss, deadlifts and divorce: what we learned from Adele’s One Night Only special

In her TV concert special, the singer got personal in an interview with Oprah Winfrey about her dreams of a nuclear family, fixation with her weight loss and how much she can deadlift

Adrian Horton

Monday 15 November 2021

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dele opened up about the pain of her divorce, losing the dream of a nuclear family, commentary over her weight and her strained relationship with her late father in a candid, ranging interview with Oprah Winfrey.

During the sit-down in Winfrey’s rose garden, recorded prior to her first concert in more than four years for the CBS special Adele One Night Only, the singer revealed she felt “embarrassed” that she couldn’t make her marriage to Simon Konecki “work”.

Joan Rivers / Joan Collins, Adele, Paris Hilton, Rihanna and Liza Minelli / Quotes

Joan Rivers

by Joan Rivers

Joan Rivers / Joan Collins, Adele, Paris Hilton, Rihanna and Liza Minelli

Quotes

"I spit on education. No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card."

"I bought a pedigree dog for $300. My friend said, "Give me $300. and I'll shit on your carpet."

"Joan Collins lies about her age so much we should have her body carbon-dated."

"Gay marriage - I am so against it because all my gay friends are out. And if they get married, it will cost me a fortune in gifts."

"When I saw her sex tape, all I could think of were Paris Hilton's poor parents. The shame, the shame of the Hilton family. To have your daughter do a porno film... in a Marriott hotel."

"I blame myself for David Gest. It was me who told Liza Minnelli to find herself a man who wouldn't sleep with other women."

"Rihanna confessed to Oprah Winfrey that she still loves Chris Brown. Idiot! Now it's MY turn to slap her."

"Congratulations to Adele on the birth of her 68 pound 8 ounces bouncing baby boy."


FICCIONES
Casa de citas / Joan Rivers / Éxito
Casa de citas / Joan Rivers / Mi obstetra
Casa de citas / Joan Rivers / Sexo II
Casa de citas / Joan Rivers / Sexo I
Casa de citas / Joan Rivers / Ayer es historia

DE OTROS MUNDOS
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DRAGON
Joan Rivers/ Constantly in the limelight and pursued by controversy
Joan Rivers / A life in pictures
Joan Rivers, pioneering comedian and entertainer, dies aged 81
Joan Rivers / Joan Collins, Adele, Paris Hilton, Rihanna and Liza Minelli / Quotes
Joan Rivers / Lenny Bruce
Joan Rivers / I was talking about my mother
Joan Rivers / Comedy

 

‘Concerned with the tensions between authorities and the black community’
Adele in the Hello video

Adele cast black star in Hello video to address 'police brutality'

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‘It was her desire that we wouldn’t cast a caucasian male in this,’ says director Xavier Dolan on the choice of The Wire’s Tristan Wilds as her love interest

Guardian music

Friday 9 December 2016

Xavier Dolan has spoken about the inspiration behind Adele’s video for Hello, explaining that casting The Wire’s Tristan Wilds was a deliberate attempt to address “police brutality” in the US.

In an interview with Vulture, the French-Canadian film-maker said that while it was his idea to cast Wilds, Adele had specified that the love interest in the video should not be played by a white actor.

“It was her desire that we wouldn’t cast a caucasian male in this, which I thought was great,” he explained to Vulture. “She called me and said, ‘This is what I think we should do,’ and if my memory serves me right … I’m going to be honest, it’s tragic not to be able to remember what exact conflict was on the news at that moment, because there are so many incidents of police brutality.”

Unsure which death she was responding to, he said: “She called me right after one of those incidents of police brutality, and I wish I could remember the name. I wish it wouldn’t be as hard to remember because there wouldn’t be so many different instances of those incidents. They’re disgusting.”

Dolan went on to say that this casting decision “was not opportunistic”. He added: “She was just like, ‘I’m concerned with the reality of the tensions between authorities and the black community, and I want to send a message out there.’ I thought it was beautiful. I wish it was my idea, but it wasn’t.”

The video for Hello has been viewed on YouTube more than a billion times since its release in 2015.

Last year, a Guardian study showed that young black American men were five times more likely than white men of the same age to be killed by police officers, with the final tally of deaths in 2015 at the hands of law enforcement officers reaching 1,146.

THE GUARDIAN

KISS

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Adele / Don't You Remember

Adele / One and the Only

Adele / Rolling in the Deep

Adele /  He Won't Go

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PESSOA

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DRAGON

Adele confirms album release date and new single, Hello

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Adele's 25 set to break UK first-week album sales record

Adele / I can finally reach out a hand to my ex. Let him know I’m over it

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James Corden's Carpool Karaoke: why is this late-night segment such a hit?

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James Corden's Carpool Karaoke: why is this late-night segment such a hit?

Stars such as Adele, Bieber and J Lo seem to do anything the Late Late Show host asks of them when they hop in the passenger seat with him. How does he do it?

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 James Corden hits it off with Adele.

Melissa Locker

Friday 1 April 2016 20.01 BST

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