I think she sounds very like Alison Moyet (indeed looks like her with better bone structure), not a patch on Annie Lennox. There was a clip running at much the same time of Whitney Houston singing some pop song to a large audience, and the way she slid up to the ninth (I think) just as the song ended was electrifying. So far I think Adele is merely easy listening (until she speaks, at which point it makes for very uneasy listening indeed, I must agree with Bozo about that).

I was also very offended by her remarks about her first big tax bill.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/may/25/adele-tax-grievances

Maybe Bozo would like to do a back-calculation to see, assuming that she did no tax planning, what here gross earnings were to be charged £4million tax. I'm guessing about £10million - the top rate of 50% is only charged on the top slice of income over the relevant threshold (taxable income of £150,000), and of course the personal allowance comes off first, and then any deductible expenses which presumably are substantial - and there used to be a top-slicing system that allowed entertainers to average high earnings from one year out over several years. Just how many more pies does she need to buy?

Some details of tax assessment here:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/incometax/basics.htm


Mind you I suppose that you don't have to be a worthy person to be an able musician - look at Ike Turner.