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Adele to step away from music ‘for an incredibly long time’ to live ‘new life’
Adele has told her fans she will not see them “for an incredibly long time”, after finishing the final show of her European tour in Munich, Germany.
The 36-year-old told fans she “needs a rest” and wanted to “live my new life I’ve been building”.
Adele with sports agent Rich Paul last year. Pic: AP
The London-born star announced her engagement during a Munich gig earlier this month and has previously said she would take a “big break” from music after her latest run of shows.
She has spent the past two years playing a weekend residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and has just completed a record-breaking string of shows at Munich’s Messe exhibition centre.
Her 10-date stint in Germany sold over 730,000 tickets – more than any residency outside Las Vegas – and took place in a pop-up stadium with a capacity of over 73,000 – making it the largest temporary arena ever built.
Adele told the audience at her final show on Saturday: “I’d like to thank you so much for coming to my show this evening, I would like everyone who’s come to any one of my shows ever (to) thank you so much for coming.
“I’m not the most comfortable performer, but I am very f****** good at it, and I’ve really enjoyed performing for nearly three years now, which is the longest I’ve ever done, and probably the longest I would ever do.
“But I have 10 shows left after this, back in my (Las Vegas) residency, (be)cause I was poorly earlier… so those got delayed, and obviously… (this) was supposed to be… my last show.
“I’m thrilled that it’s not, because I still have exactly five weeks of shows, (be)cause it’s like weekends and stuff like that, and 10 shows to do.
“And after that I will not see you for an incredibly long time, and I will hold you… dear in my heart for the whole next of my break, and I will fantasise about these shows, and any shows that I have done over the last three years.
“I really, really hold them in the bottom of my heart forever, it has been amazing, I just need a rest and I have spent the last seven years building a new life for myself, and I want to live it now, I want to live my new life that I’ve been building.”
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Adele confirmed her engagement to US sports agent Rich Paul on the same stage earlier this month, telling a fan holding a sign saying, “Will you marry me?” that she couldn’t as she was “already getting married”.
She has been in a relationship with Paul, who is the founder of Klutch Sports Group and counts basketball legend LeBron James among his clients, since 2021.
Adele split from charity boss Simon Konecki, with whom she shares son Angelo, in April 2019.
She concluded her announcement, telling the crowd she would miss them “terribly” and hoped she would see them in Las Vegas.
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Adele rose to fame as a 19-year-old in 2008 with her first album “19”, before releasing her second album, 21, in 2011, and 25, in 2015.
Her second album is the fourth best-selling album of all time in the UK, behind Queen, ABBA, and The Beatles.
She released her latest album, 30, in November 2021 marking a comeback after five years and performing at the British Summer Time festival (BST) in Hyde Park the following summer – her last performance in the UK.
Adele is set to conclude her shows in Las Vegas in November this year.