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Paul Weller and The Brits

Best male artist 2009



looks to be another Adele and Paul Weller event excepting the lifetime achievement award in 2006



Town Called Malice

Paul Weller & Adele - You do something to me

"Really scared to try and do anything different to it" Adele

 

Adele admitted that she was apprehensive when it came to meeting Weller.  “I was really nervous,” she said. “I went to go meet him at the first Brixton Academy show he did last Monday but straight away, he was so normal. Not that I thought that he would be awkward or anything, but he’s just the nicest man. He made me a cup of tea so straight away and put me at ease.”

 

BBC Radio 6

4 December 2008, Maida Vale Studios, London

Paul Weller & Adele - Need Your Love So Bad

“It was Adele’s idea, which was a very good choice as well. It’s an old blues tune, which most people probably know from Fleetwood Mac but I think it goes beyond that.” Paul Weller

 

Weller on why this song was chosen “It was Adele’s idea, which was a very good choice as well. It’s an old blues tune, which most people probably know from Fleetwood Mac but I think it goes beyond that.”

However, it could have been quite different, as Adele said: “Initially I chose I’m Gonna Make You Love Me by Diana Ross and The Supremes with the Temptations.  I hadn’t really heard it for a good couple of years and I got home from Amsterdam and thought, ‘Oh God, that Temptations part is too high, I don’t think Paul will be able to sing it. And then Diana Ross comes in. You know how there’s certain artists that can get away with talking on the song, saying like, ‘Hey Baby’. I’m not one of them.”

 

BBC Radio 6

4 December 2008, Maida Vale Studios, London

Paul Weller & Adele - Chasing Pavements

"I’m a massive fan of Chasing Pavements. It was one of my big records of last year, so I was more than happy to do it." Paul Weller

 

“I’m up for working with anyone really, who is any good,” said Weller. “It was suggested to me and I’m a massive fan of Chasing Pavements. It was one of my big records of last year, so I was more than happy to do it.”

Weller also said he was excited to be recording at the BBC studios at Maida Vale: “These studios are so great and they’ve got so much history and such a good sound in them. It’s nice to have a proper studio to work in and we’ve got a string quartet.”

 

BBC Radio 6

4 December 2008, Maida Vale Studios, London