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Adele Live at the Royal Albert Hall (September 22, 2011)
Just to subtly tell or drive in the point that nice things also dwell in the present time, not only in the yesteryears, my children decide to present me an audio CD and DVD of Adele Adkins Live at the Royal Albert Hall in London, of course. The same place many legends have performed, including the Beatles when they performed to the royal Windsor entourage. Remember the cheeky remark by John Lennon requesting the audience in the cheaper seats to clap their while the rest of them to just rattle their jewelry!
At a time when a pretty face, tender young age and an appealing physical attributes are major prerequisites for a successful musical carrier, Adele has managed to show her mantle and talent in weathering the fake fickle music world. Did you notice how songwriters write their songs first and record companies congregate singers to fit to the song rather than the other way around. Singing groups are formed by forcing pretty young singing 'divas' from different nooks and crannies of the world to form a group to sing to meet certain marketing strategies.
From my limited knowledge in appreciating music, I find that Adele has a rich mature sophisticated voice of a soul singer in the same league as Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald and Chaka Khan. A good change from the usual collection of pretty young things squealing at some forgettable pop bubble-gum teenage targeted songs. Adele blossomed from the ashes of the working class of the British society. Let us see how far fame and fortune can take this young lass who grew up with her single mother, idolizing 'The Spice Girls'.
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