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All of them have stories to tell, as well as songs to sing. And we begin with adele. The 24yearold british singer is a Music Industry phenomenon that happens perhaps only once a generation. Adeles sophomore album has sold more than 25 million copies ten million in the United States alone and spent more weeks at number one than any album in nearly 20 years. Unlike most female singers of today, she is not selling herself with runway model looks or provocative clothes, and has no gimmicks added to her music. Her popularity is due simply to the strength of her voice, and the emotional connection so many people have to her music. But at the height of her albums success, vocal cord problems forced her to cancel dozens of concerts and threatened to end her young career. Earlier this year, when Anderson Cooper interviewed adele, she revealed how her voice is doing now, and how she is handling her sudden and very unconventional rise to fame. Adele singing rolling in the deep cooper adeles music is intensely personal. She sings almost exclusively about love and the men whose love shes lost. She wrote this song, rolling in the deep, heartbroken and angry the day after breaking up with her boyfriend. The song became the topselling single of 2011 and catapulted her to global stardom. Adele the kind of level of fame that im dealing with now, its obviously gotten bigger over the year, but it was overnight. Literally, on a flight to new york. I landed, and i seemed to be the most talkedabout artist in the world that day. Cooper whats that moment like . Adele i thought it was hilarious. laughs cooper hilarious . Adele i thought it was funny. I wanted to be a singer forever. But its not really my cup of tea, having the whole world know who you are. Cooper its not your cup of tea . Adele no. I find it quite difficult to think that theres, you know, about 20 Million People listening to my album that i wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didnt write it being that its going to be a hit. Cooper you really wrote it to. To help you get over something . Adele yeah. So the fact that so many people are interested in that, and want to cry to it or want to feel strong to it or whatever, i find really. Its just little old me. Cooper theres nothing little about adeles voice or the emotion her songs convey. Last year, standing almost motionless center stage, she had londons Royal Albert Hall mesmerized. Adele set fire to the rain. Cooper this performance, which she considers one of the best of her career, was also one of her last. When did you first start to notice a problem in your voice . Adele a year ago, my voice went live on air, a radio show in paris, and. Cooper when you say it went, what do you mean . Adele it was literally like someone switched. Like a click off in my throat. And it just turned off, like someone pulled a curtain over my throat. But i sounded. Im not a soprano singer, but say if someones singing soprano. And then listen to a baritone singer. It sounded like that. My voice went. It was so much deeper. It was. Cooper and. And did you know something was happening . I mean, you must have known. Adele yeah, yeah. And i could feel it. It felt like something popped in my throat. Cooper it turned out she had a polyp in her vocal cords that had also hemorrhaged. Adele really, i should. I shouldve stopped singing for six months, really, and properly rested my voice. But its kind of impossible to do when youre in the eye of the storm. Cooper so you had to have surgery . Adele yeah. I had laser surgery, yeah. Cooper and what do they actually do . Adele put a laser down your throat, cut off the polyp, and kind of laser your hemorrhage back together and fix it. Cooper to help her heal, she was also ordered not to speak a word for more than a month. Thats got to be hard. Adele yeah. It was really hard. Cooper i sense you like to talk. Adele yeah, i love talking. laughter cooper so howd you communicate for five weeks . Adele by pad. I had a notepad. And i also had an application on my phone, and that you type the words into it and then it speaks it. But the great thing is i love to swear. Most of them, you cant swear on, but i found this one app where you can swear. So im still really getting my point across. The guy that this next songs about, not enough time has gone by since he was a bleep bleep to me. Cooper the swearing is back; so, too, the thick cockney accent. And her confidence in her singing voice has never been higher. Adele i cant remember a time where it felt so smooth to sing and not be paranoid on stage, you know. Cooper what do you mean . Adele i used to always wonder, will i hit that note . Even when i wasnt ill. Its basically a clean slate in my throat. And its just clear. Doesnt mean it would never happen again. If i decide to go on a 200date world tour, it would happen again. Cooper really . Adele yeah, it will. You know, just the exhaustion. Cooper hardly anyone has heard adele sing since the surgery, so sitting with her in a small london Recording Studio in january, we just couldnt resist. Can you sing a little someone like you or. . Adele i can do it a cappella. Cooper yeah . Sure. Adele im fine doing that, yeah. Never mind, ill find someone like you i wish nothin but the best for you, too dont forget me, i beg ill remember, you said sometimes, it lasts in love but sometimes, it hurts instead sometimes, it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead. Cooper someone like you has become another adele anthem, written about that same boyfriend who broke her heart. Adele never mind ill find someone like you i wish nothin but the best for you, too dont forget me, i beg ill remember, you said sometimes, it lasts in love but sometimes, it hurts instead sometimes, it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead. Cooper the song is incredibly sad, and her fans cry right along to it, so much so it became a running gag on saturday night live. And. Play. laughter laughter adele thats what i was doing when i was writing it. laughter cooper she can laugh about it now. She says she no longer feels the same way about the song or the guy she once did. Adele someone like you was about him getting engaged really quickly after we broke up. And. And i wrote that to feel better about myself, really, and it was about trying to convince myself that, oh, we will meet someone else and i will be happy. Cooper and you have met someone else . Adele yeah. Who is much better than him. laughter in fact, next time i sing someone like you, im going to be, like, never mind, i found someone, like you. Please forget me. Cooper she found simon konecki, a british entrepreneur who also runs a charitable foundation. So youre in love now . Adele yeah. Love it. Its great. Cooper your face lights up when you talk about it. Adele yeah. laughter cooper do you think you could write without having your heart broken . Adele well, i hope so, because im madly in love and i dont want to. I dont want to be like, babe, im sorry, weve got to break up. Ive got a new album to deliver. laughs hed bleep hate that. Also, i cant write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche. It would really be. It would be just like a boring running theme. I think people would be like, no, thats enough now. Cheer up. laughter for you too from my hometown from my hometown cooper she was born adele adkins in a working class section of north london. An only child raised by a single mom, she attended a high school for the performing arts and, just three days after graduating, was offered a recording contract. She was 18 years old. Cooper her debut album came out in 2008, and earned her two grammys, including best new artist. Should i give up or should i just keep chaseing pavements even if they lead nowhere cooper despite her success, she was concerned about losing touch with new music, so she did something unusual for a grammy winning artist. She got a parttime job sorting and labeling cds in the back of a record store. You started working here after your first album . Adele yeah, after the grammys. Cooper laughs after youd done the grammys . Adele yeah, yeah, i came and worked here for a little while. No one knows i did it here, no one knows. I just did it for myself. Cooper did they think it was odd that you. Adele yeah. Cooper . Came here to volunteer to work . Adele yeah, absolutely. Very much so. They were baffled by it. Cooper the other baffling thing about adele is that, despite being known for the power of her live concerts, in front of audiences, she experiences near crippling stage fright. So, how does it manifest itself . Adele it starts from the minute i wake up. If i know ive got a show, it starts. I mean, i just try and putter around and keep myself busy and stuff like that. And then i got to go down and sit in the chair for a couple hours, have my hair and makeup done. But it has gotten worse as im becoming more successful, my nerves, just because theres a bit more pressure and people are expecting a lot more from me. Cooper so whats that fear . Adele that im not going to deliver. Im not going to deliver. That im not going to. People arent going to enjoy it. Theyre. Theyre going to. That ill ruin their love for my songs by doing them live. I feel sick. I get a bit panicky. Cooper have you ever thrown up . Adele yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. A few times. Cooper really . Adele yeah. Projectile. Yeah. Because it just comes. It just comes out. It does. Cooper that kind of candid talk is typical adele. She is naturally generous with the details of her life. But her success is changing that. Fed up with paparazzi staking out her home in london, she rented this very large but very private home in the english countryside adele this here, this is just safety, this house. Come on, louie. Cooper thats why youre out here . Just because. For privacy . Adele yeah. Cooper shes learned about fame the hard way. In the past, too many personal details of her life ended up in the tabloid press. So she set traps to catch the sources. Adele i plant stories and see who leaks them, and then i get rid of them, yeah. Cooper really . So you would. You would tell them something that. Adele id tell, like, a group of people who i was suspicious of. laughs id tell them all a different story with different details in it, but all roughly the same story, so i could keep my eye on it. And then, when i knew it would come out, yeah, i knew who it was. Cooper thats kind of depressing. Adele yeah, it was still. Its quite fun, as well. laughter not firing people that you love, but yeah, its necessary. Cooper inside the rented mansion, there are ten bedrooms nine more than she needs and almost no furniture. Adele this is. This house is a bit of a cliche, really. This bits all quite scary, really. It was a convent for a little while. Cooper ever seen the shining . Adele all work and no play. And then, this is the pool. Cooper wow. Adele do you have a pool . Cooper uh. No. Adele so these wings. laughs these wings that way and that way is empty, really. There a couple of spare bedrooms around there, and this is my suite. Cooper i love what youve done with the place. Adele ive been busy. Cooper shes about to get a lot busier. Now that her voice has healed, demand for her to tour has never been higher. Did you ever feel pressure to, well, i got to look a certain way, i have to. Adele no, never. Ive never seen magazine covers and seen music videos and been, like, i need to look like that if i want to be a success. Never. I dont want to be some skinny mini with my bleep out. I really dont want to do it. laughs and i dont want people confusing what it is that im about. singing rumor has it im not shocking. I just stand there and sing. And i dont do stunts or anything. Cooper but i think thats one of the. The things that is so remarkable about your success, and is that youre kind of the antipop star. I mean, youre not. Adele no, i am. Cooper you know what i mean. I mean, there. There arent any gimmicks. Its basically the power of. Of your voice and. And what youre singing. Adele if i wanted to do all that, i dont think id get away with it. I. I just. I dont think people would believe me. Cooper but in your songs, i think people believe that you have experienced what youre singing about. 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Then, four years ago, a young swedish filmmaker heard about rodriguez, and decided to shoot a documentary about him. As bob simon discovered, the film is now captivating audiences across the country, and has been shortlisted for an academy award. Its released by Sony Pictures classics and its called searching for sugar man. Sugar man wont you help me because im tired of these scenes simon the film shows rodriguezs Old Neighborhood in downtown detroit and the smoky bar where, back in the late 60s, he was discovered by dennis coffey, a legendary motown producer. Dennis coffey we thought he was like the inner city poet, you know, putting his poems to music of what he saw. And it was definitely a very gritty look at what he saw on the streets of detroit. The only writer that i had heard of of that time period was maybe bob dylan, that was writing that well. Lost my heart when i found it simon coffey coproduced his first album, cold fact. Critics liked it, but it bombed. Steve rowland was responsible for his second. It did no better. Steve rowland nobody in america had even heard of him. Nobody. Nobody even was interested in listening to him. How can that be . How can that be . Simon and how could it be that no one in america knew that rodriguez had become an icon in south africa . Steve segerman owns a record store in cape town. Steve segerman to many of us South Africans, he was the soundtrack to our lives. If you walked into a random white, liberal, middleclass household that had a turntable and a pile of pop records, you would always see cold fact by rodriguez. To us, it was one of the most famous records of all time. Simon it was the 1970s, and under apartheid, political repression was at its height. Rodriguezs lyrics resonated with people whod had it with the system. Rodriguez the mayor hides the crime rate councilwoman hesitates public gets irate, but forgets the vote date this systems going to fall soon to an angry young tune and thats a concrete cold fact. Segerman we didnt know what the word antiestablishment was until it cropped up on a rodriguez song. And then, we found out its okay to protest against your society, to be angry with your society. Simon South Africans were buying half a million of his records, and were astonished to learn that no one else in the world had ever heard of him. He was the ultimate enigma. Segerman then we found out that he had committed suicide. He set himself alight on stage and burnt to death in front of the audience. It was probably the most grotesque suicide in rock history. Simon but there was no proof, so Record Store Owner segerman and his friends started investigating. 25 years after hearing those records, they spotted the word dearborn in one of his songs. Dearborn is near detroit. And, as the film shows, thats where they found rodriguezs house. And there he was, very much alive. His neighbors knew him as an odd character who walked around with a guitar. He was this Wandering Spirit around. Around the city. You know, detroits got its share of burnedout, desolate areas, and i would. I would occasionally see