Sunday, August 28, 2011

A legend in her living room


With apologies to Annie Lennox, Adele burns it up with this achingly beautiful torch song, recorded from the living room of her London home with a lone piano for accompaniment. Is there anything better than a killer ballad performed by a soulful siren, with cutaways of stylish decor and cool tchotchkes? (Thanks to Penny for posting on Facebook.)

3 comments:

Carol Starr Schneider said...

I love Adele. I love this song. It makes me weep uncontrollably till I need to be sedated.

Cathy Hamilton said...

Or, get sedated uncontrollably until I weep!! (But, I do love her flat. Rumor has it, it's in Notting Hill.)

Carol Starr Schneider said...

Cutaways to a stylish mudroom work too, ya know. And nothing makes me happier than when "tchotchke" is spelled correctly. Let's buy us a flat in Notting Hill.

Inn of the Governors

The Inn of the Governors on West Alameda is where my maternal grandparents used to stay in the '60s and '70s when they'd visit ...