Live At The Royal Albert Hall: Adele -

And then, we arrive at the piano. The lights drop to a single spotlight. Adele looks out at the sold-out hall, a room that once hosted royalty, and she confesses: "I wrote this next song on my guitar in the garden. I didn't think anyone was listening. I was wrong."

This concert captures Adele at a specific, unrepeatable inflection point. She was famous, but not yet famous famous. She hadn’t yet done the Super Bowl. She hadn’t yet released 25 and broken sales records. She hadn’t yet gone through her divorce, the weight loss, the Las Vegas residency drama. In September 2011, she was still the girl next door who happened to have the voice of Etta James and the lyrical pen of Joni Mitchell. adele - live at the royal albert hall