Adele ‘at risk of losing her voice’ during her £30million Las Vegas residency
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Adele has been warned she could face damage to her vocal cords during her upcoming residency in Las Vegas - worth £30 million - due to the dry heat in the desert city
Adele ‘at risk of losing her voice’ during her £30million Las Vegas residency
Adele could be at risk of losing her voice during her £30million Las Vegas residency.
She was warned by rock legend and Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott, who said the dry heat in the scorching hot city could affect her vocal cords.
Joe, 62, previously played his own residency at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino back in 2019, and said the lack of humidity in the desert had an adverse effect on his iconic voice.
“I had to fill my bath with boiling water every night and put kettles and humidifiers all over the place so you wake up drowned,” he told the Daily Star, as he complained the climate in Sin City was a “killer for singers”.
And he urged the Hello hitmaker to invest in some good equipment to keep her voice in tip top condition.
“For god’s sake get a humidifier for your room,” Joe pleaded.
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Adele has had problems with her vocal chords over the years, and in 2011, she underwent surgery after suffering a haemorrhage to her vocal cords.
She made a full recovery, but in 2017, she was struck down again and was forced to cancel the final two shows of her world tour at London’s Wembley Stadium after damaging her vocal cords.
The Nevada resort is one of the driest cities in America, and the parched atmosphere has previously affected other singers, including U2 frontman Bono, and Jon Bon Jovi.
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Back in 1997, when the Irish rockers kicked off their PopMart world tour, the dry air played havoc with the singer’s throat, while Bon Jovi vowed to never play a gig in Las Vegas again after his voice became damaged while performing in the city.
Adele will rake in more than £500,000 per show when her Weekends With Adele residency kicks off on Friday at Caesars Palace’s Colosseum.
Tickets to see the mother-of-one range from £700 to more than £9,000, and as well as getting a cut of ticket sales, Adele will also make money from exclusive merchandise sold at the venue.
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It was reported the Easy On Me hitmaker will be splitting her time between a luxury £30,000-per-night suite at Caesars Palace, and her home in Los Angeles which she shares with son Angelo, 9,
The 24-concert residency will take place on Fridays and Saturdays until 16 April, and then she’ll be back in the UK to prepare for her headline gig at British Summer Time Hyde Park in July.
Go easy on her: Adele needs to stop being so hard on herself
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It was the worst news for Adele fans. The British singer’s much-hyped Las Vegas residency came to a stuttering halt last night (Thursday 20 January), after she revealed that half her team had been struck down by Covid, and a number of deliveries had failed to turn up. In a tearful video posted to Instagram, she said she and her team had been awake “for over 30 hours” trying to figure out a solution, but had been unable to make it work. She apologised to the people who had travelled miles to see her perform at Caesar’s Palace, promising rescheduled dates would be announced soon.
“We’ve tried absolutely everything that we can to pull it together in time and for it to be good enough for you but we’ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and Covid,” she said. “Half my crew, half my team are down with Covid, they still are, and it’s been impossible to finish the show… and I can’t give you what I have right now and I’m gutted, I’m gutted, and I’m sorry it’s the last minute.”
Fans are justifiably upset – some are angry – at the way the announcement was made. “It’s my birthday and I am on an airplane right now using the last of my vacation time for a whole year to see you along with some non-refundable deposits and a week of babysitting… I’m sad you couldn’t decide this until the last minute,” one wrote.
It certainly might have made more sense to warn fans of the issues earlier. But the way Adele’s Las Vegas saga has unfolded – and her apology video – is a classic example of how she tends to carry the burden of expectation on her shoulders alone. Back in 2017, she was forced to cancel the final two shows of her Wembley Stadium run after she damaged her vocal cords. She was apparently so desperate not to let her fans down that she’d considered miming. “But I’ve never done it and I cannot in a million years do that to you. It wouldn’t be the real me up there,” she said at the time. “I’m sorry for your disappointment… You know I would not make this decision lightly… I’m sorry. I’m devastated… Please forgive me.”
Adele has always treated her fans like family, so any time she feels she’s let them down comes with a hefty dose of guilt. In recent interviews, she spoke of being hurt when she saw some fans who felt “let down” by her recent weight loss, even while acknowledging that their feelings about their own bodies was not her responsibility. “It makes me sad that people expected that much from me, because that’s unattainable for anybody,” she said. “Things that people say, how someone looks, whatever. It’s not my job.” Despite this, you got the sense she couldn’t help but worry about them.
She also seems to be blaming herself for the collapse of the Las Vegas residency. Yet it’s not her fault that the music industry has been devastated by the pandemic, or that deliveries didn’t turn up on time. I doubt we’d see such an emotional apology from Ed Sheeran, or Drake, if the circumstances were so clearly out of their control. Adele should take her own advice and go easy. No one can deny how hard she’s tried.
Meat Loaf once reached out to offer Adele support after she suffered the same vocal-cord injury he’d had
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Meat Loaf, whose death was announced Thursday, told the Daily Mail in 2012 that he reached out to Adele about her vocal-cord injury.
Adele had surgery in 2011 to remove a hemorrhaging polyp on her vocal cord.
Meat Loaf performed a 2011 Australia tour with a hemorrhaging vocal cord, he told Billboard.
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Meat Loaf once sent Adele a message of encouragement after the singer injured her vocal cords and had to undergo surgery in 2012.
The death of the singer and actor, whose real name was Michael Lee Aday, at the age of 74 was announced on Thursday evening. Known for his best-selling album “Bat Out of Hell” and for appearing in films like “Fight Club” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” he died with his family around him, according to a statement posted to his Facebook page on Thursday evening.
Meat Loaf told the Daily Mail in 2012 that he had sent a message of encouragement to Adele regarding an injury that both of them had suffered, a vocal-cord hemorrhage. In 2011, the “Rolling in the Deep” singer had surgery to remove a hemorrhaging polyp on her vocal cord, CBS News reported.
“My problems were similar to Adele’s,” Meat Loaf told the Daily Mail. “I actually sent her a message saying that every singer understood what she was going through.”
Adele’s 2011 surgery was successful, but in 2017 the singer had to cancel the final two shows of her tour at Wembley Stadium in London as the result of a vocal-cord injury.
Meat Loaf suffered from a similar injury, telling the Daily Mail that he had rebuffed doctors who had cautioned him about performing during an 2011 Australia tour due to the injury. In 2015, he told Billboard that he had done the tour with a hemorrhaging vocal cord and was “spitting blood every night on stage.”
Still, Meat Loaf finished the tour and completed his 2011 album “Hell in a Handbasket” on the road, which was released first in Australia and New Zealand and later released globally in 2012.
At the time of his death, he had a television show and new music in the works, Insider reported. The singer was working on a relationship reality-competition show named after his single “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That),” as well as a four-song EP.
Adele ‘Gutted’ By Postponement Of Las Vegas Residency
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A tearful Adele apologized to her fans on Thursday after announcing that she is postponing her Las Vegas residency.
The singer was scheduled to kick off Weekends with Adele on Friday at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. In all, 24 shows are lined up before April 16. All of the roughly 100,000 tickets were snapped up within hours of going on sale.
“I’m so sorry but my show ain’t ready,” Adele said, in a video message she shared on social media. “We’ve tried absolutely everything we can to put it together in time and for it to be good enough for you but we’ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and COVID. Half my crew, half my team are down with COVID.
“It’s been impossible to finish the show and I can’t give you what I’ve got right now and I’m gutted. I’m gutted and I’m sorry that it’s so last minute. We’ve been awake for over 30 hours now trying to figure it out and we’ve run out of time. I’m so upset and I’m really embarrassed.”
Adele apologized to fans who have traveled to Las Vegas to see her this weekend. “I’m really, really sorry,” she said. “I’m really sorry.”
The singer promised that the shows will be rescheduled. Ticketmaster is offering refunds within the next 30 days.
Earlier this month, David Lee Roth cancelled the final nine shows of his Vegas residency due to the spread of COVID-19.
‘My show ain’t ready’: Adele postpones Las Vegas residency Weekends With Adele
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Adele at the 59th GRAMMY Awards (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for NARAS)
Adele has announced that she has been forced to postpone her three month long Las Vegas residency due to the impact of Covid on her team.
The Easy On Me singer shared the news on social media, and repeatedly told fans that she was “so sorry”.
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Why has Adele postponed her Las Vegas residency?
Adele revealed that she has been forced to postpone her Las Vegas residency performances due to “delivery delays and Covid”. She said that half of her crew were still out of action due to Covid and despite trying “absolutely everything” to keep the show on track, it was “impossible to finish”.
Adele’s Weekends With Adele would have seen the singer performing two shows every weekend through to April at the famous Caesars Palace Colosseum theatre.
The singer had been set to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Celine Dion, Sir Elton John, Madonna and Rod Stewart who have all also performed at the Colosseum theatre, which seats 4,300 audience members.
What did she say on social media?
Posting the same video to her Twitter and Instagram accounts, the singer got visibly upset as she updated fans on the situation.
She said: “I’m so sorry but my show ain’t ready. We’ve tried absolutely everything that we can to put it together in time and for it to be good enough for you but we’ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and Covid.
“Half my crew, half my team, are down with Covid, they still are. It’s been impossible to finish the show and I can’t give you what I have right now.
“I’m gutted. I’m sorry it’s so last minute, we’ve been awake for over 30 hours now and trying to figure it out and we’ve run out of time.
“I’m so upset and I’m really embarrassed and I’m so sorry to everyone that’s travelled again. I’m really, really sorry.
“We’re going to reschedule all of the dates, we’re on it right now, and I’m going to finish my show, and I’m going to get it to where it’s supposed to be.
“I’m so sorry, it’s been impossible, we’ve been up against so much and it just ain’t ready.
“I’m really sorry. Sorry.”
When was her residency supposed to begin?
Weekends With Adele, her exclusive residency in the Colosseum of Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace Hotel, was scheduled to begin just hours after the singer announced that she was postponing her performances.
She was set to perform her first set on Friday 21 January 2022.
Caesars Palace tweeted: “We understand the disappointment surrounding the postponement of Weekends With Adele.
“Adele is an incredible artist, supremely dedicated to her music and her fans.
“Creating a show of this magnitude is incredibly complex. We fully support Adele and are confident the show she unveils at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace will be extraordinary.”
What will happen to the tickets - and what about people with hotel reservations?
Those with tickets for any of the Weekends With Adele will want to hold onto them, as they will be valid for the new dates that are set to be announced at a later date.
Ticketmaster says: “Please hold onto your tickets as they will be valid for the new date. You can locate your tickets by signing in to your online account. If your event is eligible for a refund or credit, those options will be visible within the Event Details of your order.”
Tickets for the performances ranged from $85 (£60) to $685 (£500).
The Caesars Palace website has also updated it’s Weekends With Adele page, stating: “All events originally scheduled for Weekends With Adele at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace January 21, 2022 through April 16, 2022 have been postponed.
“Guests holding a hotel reservation at a Caesars Entertainment hotel in Las Vegas on January 21 or January 22 may cancel with a full refund by calling 800-303-6640.
“All other hotel reservations are subject to normal cancellation policies.”
What has the reaction been like?
Reaction to the news online has been mixed, with some telling the singer that she has “done the right thing”, but others left frustrated by the last minute nature of the cancellation.
Glennon Doyle, the author behind the book Untamed which Adele praised heavily in the past, commented on her Instagram video, writing: “Covid is killing us mentally because no one is showing us how to adjust our expectations of ourselves and others.
“We are killing ourselves trying to make things work like they worked in the old world but we can’t do it. We cannot make things work but it feels like we aren’t allowed to say that.
“Because no one is brave enough to say: No. this cannot be done right now. Enough. But you did, and it is going to free people, I swear to God.
“You are a beautiful leader even when you don’t know you are leading. Go easy on you.”
Fellow singer Pink also commented: “Sweetheart I have been there. The pressure is immense and I’m gutted for all of you. It will come together and it will be amazing when it does.”
However not everyone has been supportive of the singer postponing her performances.
One person tweeted: “Why wait so last min to announce? I am on the plane to Vegas RN w/ my hotel booked for tomorrow’s opening night.
“You must’ve known the show wasn’t ready yesterday. Yes, Covid, but u can cancel things 3 days b4. It’s cruel to wait 26 hours until 1st show. Wasted [flight] and hotel money!!”
Another wrote: “A moment ago I felt sorry for @Adele, but I’m not buying into it now. Poor fans. Cancellations are written into her set list… Wembley, now Vegas. What about Hyde Park? Putting on a show like this on in a pandemic and without a plan B wasn’t strategic.”