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🎤Why is Adele playing Las Vegas? Some might say it is where she belongs, but not the rock old guard, writes @neil_mccormick

“That's something I've been trying to avoid my whole life,” Paul McCartney said last year.

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🗣️“Vegas is where you go to die, isn't it? It's the elephant's graveyard.” Mick Jagger has said.

“I couldn’t bear to end up as an Elvis Presley and sing in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags,” he sneered. “It’s really sick”

"It is true that Adele writes her own songs and invests them with a raw confessional intensity rooted in a sensitive singer-songwriter genre that might seem far removed from the superficial glitz and neon of Las Vegas.

✍️"But times change, and Vegas has had to adapt"

"If you want to see Adele up close and personal, then Vegas is the only place to go."

She'll be playing at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace Hotel to a mere 4,100 people a night.

➡️Meanwhile, she's sold out 130,000 tickets for her London homecoming shows at BST Hyde Park in July

⭐️"The most curious thing about Adele’s Vegas residency is that she is currently the biggest star in the world, at the very height of her powers, promoting a global smash hit album.

"She could play anywhere...so why head to a small theatre in the Nevada desert?"

🎵"The truth is that live shows are where the real money is made in today’s music economy," Neil writes.

"...performing in a physical space where fans have to actually turn up and spend hard-earned cash to hear you"

"Most musicians genuinely love to play music, even if many tend not to be not so fond of the rigours of touring."

🗣️Elton John previously said it "can be soul destroying, being out on the road all the time can lead to hardships in relationships”

"It is well known that Adele has found touring difficult in the past.

"Now she can fly in on a private jet, get put up in a penthouse, wander downstairs to play her shows and be back home before midnight to see her nine-year-old son Angelo"

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