Adele
Author(s): Sarah-Louise James
Adele needs no introduction. From humble beginnings she has come to be a globally recognized icon. Her first album shot her to fame and the second consolidated her position as a singing/songwriting superstar with lasting, global appeal. She has already won more than 40 industry awards, including 11 Billboard Music Awards, a BRIT award, and eight Grammy awards. She has broken record after record: first artist to sell more than 3m albums in a year in the UK, first living artist to have two top five hits in both the UK singles and albums charts simultaneously since the Beatles, the first artist in history to lead the Billboard chart concurrently with three number ones, 21 is the longest running number one album by a female solo artist on the UK chart and in the US it held the top position for longer than any other album since 1993.
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Sarah-Louise James was the lead writer on the (then-) new Big Brother website in the late 1990s and she worked on Big Brothers 3 and 4, Fame Academy 2, Comic Relief Does Fame Academy, The Salon and Teen Big Brother. In 2003, she got a job as teen/pop editor at Teletext and went on to become deputy celebrity/news editor at More magazine. This led on to a job at MTV where she was news editor of the UK website. She currently writes for Playlist at the Daily Star.
This book is more than just a fan's look at the fascinating life of someone who is already being described in legendary terms. Adele: Celebration of an Icon and her Music looks at the stories and emotions behind her best-selling songs as well as telling the fascinating story of the girl who was born to a single-parent teenager in North London. The text is accompanied by stunning photographs, showcasing this talented young woman' visual appeal.
General Fields
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- : Carlton Books Ltd
- : Carlton Books Ltd
- : 01 October 2012
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sarah-Louise James
- : Paperback
- : 782.42164092
- : 176
