Adele WILL work with Lionel Richie, it's official – Hello, best news ever?

<div style="text-align: justify;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqSdXx96IXSFK5KFK06_A6h_a5DzvXnrYBVfRitd4lc6O07nJmhdiiSxTSk_dWo8815hRhXeFKr09R8kEGSndpQNaJryoW3nkbFlPC_QSBQ31nLy_sXRfyAc4yv0lalhUcss3n4K6-ybA/s1600/Adele+WILL+work+with+Lionel+Richie%252C+it%2527s+official+%25E2%2580%2593+Hello%252C+best+news+ever.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Adele WILL work with Lionel Richie, it's official – Hello, best news ever? " border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqSdXx96IXSFK5KFK06_A6h_a5DzvXnrYBVfRitd4lc6O07nJmhdiiSxTSk_dWo8815hRhXeFKr09R8kEGSndpQNaJryoW3nkbFlPC_QSBQ31nLy_sXRfyAc4yv0lalhUcss3n4K6-ybA/s640/Adele+WILL+work+with+Lionel+Richie%252C+it%2527s+official+%25E2%2580%2593+Hello%252C+best+news+ever.jpg" title="Adele WILL work with Lionel Richie, it's official – Hello, best news ever? " width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adele and Lionel Richie answer the call</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> ADELE and Lionel Richie will be collaborating on an exciting new project. "We will be doing something together soon" said the US superstar as he revealed all the details and announced new UK tour dates.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Hello, it turns out that it WAS Lionel Richie that Adele was looking for.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Hello singer said that he will be working with the, ahem, Hello singer very soon.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-version="6" style="background: #FFF; border-radius: 3px; border: 0; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: -webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width: 99.375%; width: calc(100% - 2px);"> <div style="padding: 8px;"> <div style="background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;"> <div style="background: url(data:image/png; display: block; height: 44px; margin: 0 auto -44px; position: relative; top: -22px; width: 44px;"> </div> </div> <div style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/9OeAEGlfx-/" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">HELLO @adele is it me you're looking for... 📞 #hello</a></div> <div style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"> A photo posted by lionelrichie (@lionelrichie) on <time datetime="2015-10-24T15:53:35+00:00" style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">Oct 24, 2015 at 8:53am PDT</time></div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> And now it's official, Lionel Richie has confirmed that he has been in touch with Adele about working together.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He also insists that there are no hard feelings, despite some friends telling him he should sue Adele for stealing his famous song.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "You have no idea how many people called me on the phone and said, 'Are you going to let her get away with that? She stole Hello.'" he told E News</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Then I said, 'I don’t own Hello. I own the melody. But what it did was it blew everything to the ceiling."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Speaking of ceilings, Richie admitted he was dancing on his when he heard the news.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>SCROLL DOWN FOR RICHIE'S ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT WORKING WITH ADELE</strong></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <strong></strong> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="378" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PUjvaMWKeBI" width="640"></iframe> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The 66-year-old initially thought that Adele had covered his own 1984 classic when he heard the title of her new song.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Someone said to me, ‘Lionel, Adele did ‘Hello’ and I said, ‘Retirement. I am done,’” he laughed.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Although he quickly realised his mistake, he didn't waste time imagining the musical possibilities of a collaboration.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "If you say Adele and you say Lionel or Lionel and Adele – that’s the best pairing you could have,” he modestly added.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>WATCH MISS PIGGY SING HELLO NEXT:</strong></div> <div class="p402_hide htmlappend" style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><section class="text-description"><div style="display: none;"> </div> </section><section class="text-description"> <!--By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C found at https://accounts.brightcove.com/en/terms-and-conditions/. --><script language="JavaScript" src="http://admin.brightcove.com/js/BrightcoveExperiences.js" type="text/javascript"></script><object class="BrightcoveExperience" id="myExperience4627877106001"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="width" value="648" /> <param name="height" value="365" /> <param name="playerID" value="4581640862001" /> <param name="playerKey" value="AQ~~,AAACT2hWexE~,QV-ElXQT89U_VDxSv3YHBd4nA3r5ipc3" /> <param name="isVid" value="true" /> <param name="isUI" value="true" /> <param name="dynamicStreaming" value="true" /> <param name="@videoPlayer" value="4627877106001" /></object></section><!-- This script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soonas the line is read by the browser. 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She is committed to that.”</div> <div class="p402_hide htmlappend" style="text-align: justify;"> Adele announced her UK and Europe tour last week with a hilarious video, packed with fluffed lines and her trademark cackle. Watch it HERE.</div> <div class="p402_hide htmlappend" style="text-align: justify;"> Lionel Richie has also announced new UK tour dates.</div> <!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><section class="text-description"><div style="display: none;"> </div> </section><!--By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C found at https://accounts.brightcove.com/en/terms-and-conditions/. --><script language="JavaScript" src="http://admin.brightcove.com/js/BrightcoveExperiences.js" type="text/javascript"></script><section class="text-description"><object class="BrightcoveExperience" id="myExperience3808179062001"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="width" value="648" /> <param name="height" value="365" /> <param name="playerID" value="4581640862001" /> <param name="playerKey" value="AQ~~,AAACT2hWexE~,QV-ElXQT89U_VDxSv3YHBd4nA3r5ipc3" /> <param name="isVid" value="true" /> <param name="isUI" value="true" /> <param name="dynamicStreaming" value="true" /> <param name="@videoPlayer" value="3808179062001" /></object></section><!-- This script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soonas the line is read by the browser. 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Tickets go on sale to the general public at 9am on December 4.</section><section class="text-description"><strong>For more information on Adele's UK tour go to the official website: <a href="http://www.adele.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.Adele.com</a></strong><br /> <strong></strong> </section><!--By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C found at https://accounts.brightcove.com/en/terms-and-conditions/. --><script language="JavaScript" src="http://admin.brightcove.com/js/BrightcoveExperiences.js" type="text/javascript"></script><section class="text-description"><object class="BrightcoveExperience" id="myExperience4576212722001"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="width" value="648" /> <param name="height" value="365" /> <param name="playerID" value="4581640862001" /> <param name="playerKey" value="AQ~~,AAACT2hWexE~,QV-ElXQT89U_VDxSv3YHBd4nA3r5ipc3" /> <param name="isVid" value="true" /> <param name="isUI" value="true" /> <param name="dynamicStreaming" value="true" /> <param name="@videoPlayer" value="4576212722001" /></object></section>

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