Adele: what I owe Etta James

Adele on a singer who makes you believe in her every word"Hers is an extraordinary story – her mother was a prostitute, she didn't know her father, for years she was a heroin addict. When I first heard her, I didn't know anything about that. I must have been about 14, and a bit of a grunger, when in the jazz section of the HMV on Oxford Street, surrounded by musos, I bought two records in a two-for-a-fiver deal. One was by Ella Fitzgerald and one was by Etta James. I just loved the way she loo...

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