This is the real Adele – unvarnished and close-up.
From a cramped flat in London to the Grammys in Los Angeles, Adele’s golden voice, her catchy hits, and her irrepressible personality have taken the world by storm. Her album ’21’ became the biggest selling record of the millennium, with nearly 30 million albums sold. With the release of ’25’ she reached over 20 million sales.
But who is the woman behind the songs? What struggles and heartbreaks inspired the music that moved the world to tears – and bought it to its feet?
In this brilliant, insightful biography Neil Simpson takes the reader inside Adele’s world. He details her childhood, her early attempts to break into the music business, the tempestuous relationships that inspired some of her greatest songs and the months of painstaking work that went into the albums that have defined her.