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IRISH EXAMINER | October 28th, 2020
T THHEE IIRRIISSHH EEXXAAMMIINNEERR biggest crossover hit of the past 25 years, topping pop, adult pop and adult contem-
porary charts and that Adele is one of four female artists to have an album chart at
number one for more than 13 weeks (the other three artists being Judy
M MUUSSIICC AANNDD EENNTTEERRTTAAIINNMMEENNTT Garland, Carole King, and Whitney Houston). At the 2012 Ivor Novello Awards in
May, Adele was named Songwriter of the Year, and “Rolling in the Deep” won the
award for Most Performed Work of 2011. At the 2012 BMI Awards held in London
in October, Adele won Song of the Year (for “Rolling in the Deep”) in recognition
G GUUIIDDEE:: RROOCCKK,, CCOOUUNNTTRRYY,, JJAAZZZZ,, of the song being the most played on US television and radio in 2011. In 2013, Adele
won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the James Bond theme
“Skyfall”. This is the first James Bond song to win and the fifth to be nominated—
T TRRAADD,, FFOOLLKK,, BBAALLLLAADDSS,, BBLLUUEESS,, after “For Your Eyes Only” (1981), “Nobody Does It Better” (1977), “Live and Let
Die” (1973), and “The Look of Love” (1967). “Skyfall” won the Brit Award for Best
British Single at the 2013 Brit Awards.
In June 2013, Adele was appointed a MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honors list for
C CLLAASSSSIICCAALL AANNDD LLOOTTSS MMOORREE services to music, and she received the award from Prince Charles at Buckingham
Palace on 19 December 2013. In 2014, Adele was already being regarded as a British
Welcome to our regular music and entertainment guide, brought cultural icon, with young adults from abroad naming her among a group of people
that they most associated with UK culture, which included William Shakespeare,
to you by Paddy McCarthy for your reading enjoyment Queen Elizabeth II, David Beckham, J. K. Rowling, The Beatles, Charlie
Chaplin and Elton John.
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born Released in 2015, Adele’s third album, “25”, became the year’s best-selling album
in Tottenham, London, to an English and broke first week sales records in a number of markets, including the UK and the
mother, Penny Adkins, and a Welsh US. “25” was her second album to be certified diamond in the US and earned her five
father, Marc Evans. Evans left when Adele Grammy Awards, including her second Grammy Award for Album of the Year,
was two, leaving her mother to raise and four Brit Awards for British Female Solo Artist, British Album of the Year,
her. She began singing at the age of four British Single of the Year for “Hello”, and British Global Success. Adele became the
and asserts that she became obsessed with only artist in history to, on two separate occasions, win the three general categories
voices. In 1997, at the age of nine, Adele Grammys in the same ceremony. With 15 awards from 18 nominations, Adele won
and her mother, who by then had found more Grammys than any other female who was born outside the US. Adele’s seven
work as a furniture maker and an adult- weeks at the top of the UK Albums Chart took her total to 31 weeks at No. 1 in the
learning activities organizer, relocated UK with her three albums, surpassing Madonna’s previous record of most weeks at
to Brighton on the south coast of England. number one for a female act in the UK. The lead single, “Hello”, became the first
In 1999, she and her mother moved back song in the US to sell over one million digital copies within a week of its release.
to London; first to Brixton, then to the As of 6 August 2019, despite releasing just two albums in the decade
neighboring district of West Norwood in (“21” and “25”), at 36 weeks she has the second most weeks at No. 1 in the UK
south London, which is the subject of her Album Charts in the 2010s, five weeks behind Ed Sheeran (who has released four
first song “Glory”. She spent much of her albums). All I can say is that you will be hearing from Adele for a very long time and
youth in Brockwell Park where she would I am sure you have seen her on Saturday Night Live. Adele took over as host of
play the guitar and sing to friends, which Saturday Night Live this week, where she poked fun at her weight loss journey and
she recalled in her 2015 song “Million Years Ago”. She stated, “It has quite monu- explained why she wasn’t serving as a guest. The 32-year-old singer reportedly lost
mental moments of my life that I’ve spent there, and I drove past it [in 2015] and I 40 pounds earlier this year, according to Extra TV. Adele’s transformation came
just literally burst into tears. I really missed it.” months after she finalized her divorce from Simon Koneck, so lads to let you know
Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in she is single again.
Croydon in May 2006, where she was a classmate of Leona Lewis and Jessie J. Adele He is one of the best musicians that have ever came out of Ireland and now lives
credits the school with nurturing her talent even though, at the time, she was more here in New York City. Yes, I am talking about Irish virtuoso violinist Gregory
interested in going into A&R and hoped to launch other people’s careers. At the 51st Harrington, who I am very proud to know personally and he deserves all the recog-
Annual Grammy Awards in 2009, Adele won awards in the categories of Best New nition we here at The Irish Examiner can give him. I am letting our readers know
Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. She was also nominated in the cat- what Greg is doing with his latest album and next week we will have an interview
egories of Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The success of her debut with him. Greg has a new album out called “Glass Hour” which is available now for
album 19 saw Adele nominated for three Brit Awards in the categories of British pre-order at Bandcamp. The Album contains music for violin and orchestra of Philip
Female Solo Artist, British Single of the Year and British Breakthrough Act. Then Glass and if you like beautiful film music, “Glass Hour” includes a premiere of a new
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sent a thank-you letter to Adele that stated work that Harrington wrote for violin and orchestra called “The Hours Suite” based
“with the troubles that the country's in financially, you’re a light at the end of the on the movie “The Hours”.
tunnel”. Now here is the best news from Greg: he is offering all profits from the digital
Adele’s second album, “21”, earned her a record-tying six Grammy Awards, album sales of the album (mark “concern” in the comment section at purchase) to
including Album of the Year; two Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year. CONCERN for their Gala on November 13. Now isn’t that a nice thing for him to
Adele was the second artist and first female, preceded by Christopher Cross, to have do! Now go out and buy it, you will love it I promise. C
won all four of the general field awards throughout her career. The success of the
album saw her receive numerous mentions in the Guinness Book of World Records.
With 21 non-consecutive weeks at number 1 in the US, Adele broke the record for
the longest No. 1 album by a woman in Billboard history, beating the record former-
ly held by Whitney Houston’s soundtrack “The Bodyguard”. “21” spent its 23rd
week at number one in March 2012, making it the longest-running album at num-
ber one since 1985, and it became the fourth best-selling album of the past 10 years
in the US. The best-selling album in the UK of the 21st century, and the best-selling
album by a female in UK chart history, “21” is also the fourth best-selling album in
the UK of all time. “21” was her first album certified diamond in the US.
In February 2012, Adele was listed at number five on VH1’s 100 Greatest Women
in Music. In April 2012, Time magazine named Adele one of the 100 most influen-
tial people in the world. People named her one of 2012 Most Beautiful at Every
Age. On 30 April 2012, a tribute to Adele was held at New York City's (Le) Poisson
Rouge called Broadway Sings Adele, starring various Broadway actors such as Matt
Doyle. In July 2012, Adele was listed at number six in Forbes list of the world’s high-
est-paid celebrities under the age of 30, having earned £23 million between May 2011
and May 2012. On the week ending March 3, 2012, Adele became the first solo
female artist to have three singles in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 at the same
time with “Rolling in the Deep”, “Someone Like You”, and “Set Fire to the Rain” as
well as the first female artist to have two albums in the top 5 of the Billboard 200 and
two singles in the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously. Adele topped the
2012 Sunday Times Rich List of musicians in the UK under 30, and made the Top 10
of Billboard magazine’s “Top 40 Money Makers”.
Billboard also announced the same day that Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" is the