Break out your tissues, because Adele is kicking up some more dust.
During her appearance on ITV's An Audience with Adele, recorded at The London Palladium on November 6, the production crew had a little surprise for the "Easy On Me" singer, and they did anything but go easy.
When Adele was asked by actress Emma Thompson if she can remember and speak of anyone in her life who had provided encouragement when she was growing up, the singer was taken all the way back to grade school in her mind. "I had a teacher at Chestnut Grove, that was Ms McDonald... She got me into English literature, but she also did street dance. She was just so bloody cool, so engaging, and she really made us care," Adele explained.
Of course, Ms McDonald was in the audience along with her children, and after being invited on stage, the waterworks flowed as the reunited teacher and student hugged. "I didn't know that you were coming! How are you?" Adele asked. "You look just the same," she said, both of them smiling through tears, with Adele mentioning that she had not seen Ms McDonald since she was just 12 years old. "I've still got all my books from when you were my teacher," she admitted.
"I'm so happy you're here," Adele told Ms McDonald as she hugged her, asked for her phone number, and then made her way off stage to reset her make-up. In the meantime, U.K. celebrity Alan Carr was tasked with keeping the crowd entertained. "Sing us a song. Play 'Make You Feel My Love' and Alan will sing it," Adele said to her band. Alan obliged, perfectly off-key, before Adele returned for the rest of the event.
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Adele's fourth studio album, 30, is out now, featuring 12 new songs. One of the new tracks, "I Drink Wine," is an integral part of the record because, Adele says, "it’s the beginning of me starting to really dig deep in myself and ask myself real questions and be able to focus my energy a little bit more.” Anxiety and panic, she says, was making it hard to focus on her goals. “That song is basically like 50 questions I’m asking myself,” she adds. “It felt like it was the beginning of me coming out.”
That song was also originally a whopping 15 minutes long, according to the singer. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Adele says the six-minute track was twice as long initially, but chose to cut it down because her label said it wouldn’t get played on the radio. "'Listen, everyone loves you,'" she remembers being told, "'but no one’s playing a 15-minute song on the radio.’”
We agree... a 15-minute version on the radio likely wouldn't fly, but we sure could stream that one at home on repeat. Hopefully, Adele will open up her own vault and we'll get that extra-long version of "I Drink Wine", a la Taylor Swift's "All Too Well," one of these days.
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