I think one reason why a lot of men and women out there are big fans of Adele is that not only her music is great. It’s just that her lyrics are pretty honest and real. She writes songs that everyone can relate to. Everyone went through the same experiences she went through. Pretty much every song on “21”, are about ending a bad relationship and suffering a broken heart.

I went through heart broken experiences myself. Believe it or not but it’s true. We all went through it. These songs helps people get over these bad experiences and helps make people feel better.

I probably going to want to cover a few of her songs. I might try, “Don’t You Remember” first. I believe I might be able to pull that one off. I’ll start learning it this week probably.

I don’t like most mainstream music, but there are very few of today’s artists that I like: Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and now Adele. Adele is a serious artist and I’ll be looking forward to whatever she comes out with now.

Kev

Musician Birthdays: Bobby Womack (soul singer, session guitarist. Famous for hit, “Looking For a Love”, born in 1944), Jason Newsted (former bassist of Metallica, born in 1963)

– In 1966: John Lennon’s statement that The Beatles were ‘more popular than Jesus Christ’ was published in The London Evening Standard. “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. We’re more popular then Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was alright, but his disciples were thick and ordinary.” Christian group’s in the US were outraged resulting in some states burning Beatles records. Lennon later apologised.

– In 1967: The Rolling Stones went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Ruby Tuesday’, the group’s fourth US No.1 single. ‘Lets Spend The Night Together’ was the original A side but after radio stations banned the song ‘Tuesday’ became the A side.

– In 1973: Pink Floyd played the first night on a 19 date North American tour at the Dane County Memorial Coliseum in Madison.

– In 1977: CBS released The Clash’s self- titled first album in the UK. CBS in the U.S. refused to release it until 1979. Americans bought over 100,000 imported copies of the record making it one of the biggest- selling import records of all time.

– In 1978: The US internal Revenue Service carried out a dawn raid at the home of Jerry Lee Lewis and removed cars worth over £100,000 ($170,000) to pay off his tax debts.

– In 1979: Randy Jackson of The Jackson Five was seriously injured in a car crash breaking both legs and almost died in the emergency room when a nurse inadvertently injects him with methadone.

– In 1982: Frank Zappa’s son Dweezil and his daughter Moon Unit formed a band called Fred Zeppelin. Their first single was ‘My Mother is a Space Cadet’.

– In 1986: After just completing a two set show with The Band in Winter Park, Florida, 41 year old Richard Manuel of The Band hung himself from a shower curtain rod in a hotel room in Florida. His band mate, Robbie Robertson honored his friend with the song, ‘Fallen Angel’ in 1987.

– In 1993: Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown became parents when Whitney gave birth to a baby girl, Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown.

– In 1994: Kurt Cobain was rushed to hospital after overdosing on alcohol and drugs in a Rome hotel during a Nirvana European tour. Cobain had taken 50-60 pills of Rohypnol mixed with champagne; rumours on the internet claimed that Kurt was dead.

– In 2001: Village People singer Glenn Hughes died of lung cancer aged 50 in his Manhattan apartment in New York. He was the original “Biker” character in the disco group who scored the 1978 UK No.1 & US No.2 single Y.M.C.A.

– In 2009: Britney Spears kicked off a world tour in New Orleans, her first concert tour for five years. The 27-year-old who dressed as a ringmaster in the show, featured jugglers, acrobats and martial arts dancers.

– In 1963: The Beatles played the last show on a UK tour supporting Helen Shapiro at The Gaumont Cinema, Hanley, Stoke.

– In 1966: Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay formed Buffalo Springfield in Los Angeles.

– In 1969:  Led Zeppelin recorded their first BBC Radio 1 ‘Top Gear’ session during the afternoon at the Playhouse Theatre in London, England. Songs recorded were ‘Dazed And Confused’, ‘Communication Breakdown’, ‘You Shook Me’ and ‘I Can’t Quit You Baby’. Free, The Moody Blues and Deep Purple were also in session on the show.

– In 1973: Winners at this years Grammy Awards included, Roberta Flack who won Song of the year and Record of the year with ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ and Harry Nilsson won Best pop vocal performance for ‘Without You.’

– In 1979: The Bee Gees scored their fourth UK No.1 single with ‘Tragedy.’ Also today The Bee Gees went to No.1 on the US album chat with ‘Spirits Having Flown’, the brothers second US No.1 album.

– In 1985: Michael Jackson visited Madame Tussauds Waxworks in London to unveil his waxwork look-alike.

– In 1986: Metallica released their third album, the highly influential album, Master of Puppets, considered by many in the metal community to be the best metal album of all time. This was the last Metallica album with bassist Cliff Burton who was killed when the group’s tour bus over-turned in southern Sweden while touring to promote the album.

– In 1990: Janet Jackson started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Escapade’, her third US No.1, a No.17 hit in the UK.

– In 1994: The Smashing Pumpkins were banned from appearing on BBC TV’s ‘Top Of The Pops’, due to the content of the songs lyrics. The bands single ‘Disarm’ was this weeks highest new entry.

– In 1995: Foo Fighters made their live debut during a benefit show at The Satyricon in Portland, Oregon.

– In 2002: Jennifer Lopez started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Ain’t It Funny.’

– In 2008: The Beatles’ engineer Norman Smith died at the age of 85. Smith who worked on every studio recording the band made between 1962 and 1965 was nicknamed “Normal Norman” by John Lennon. As a producer in 1966, he signed Pink Floyd and produced their early albums including Saucerful of Secrets and as Hurricane Smith had the 1971 UK No.2 hit ‘Don’t Let It Die’.

– In 2009: To celebrate the release of U2’s twelfth studio album and their appearance every night for a week on The Late Show with David Letterman, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg temporarily renamed part of 53rd street in Midtown Manhattan U2 Way.

– In 2010:  A woman claiming to be the wife of Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs was freed on $5,000 (£3,326) bail after being arrested near the rappers home on Long Island, New York. Cemelia Green claimed to be married to the rapper and producer who is said to be worth around $350m (£233m). There was no official comment from Combs, who is unmarried.