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A British national champion Adele is taking a break from music. Can anybody replace her? Probably not On November 23rd a staggeringly successful British producer and exporter, a national champion in a business at which the country excels, suspended operations. Were the business carmaking or banking, questions would surely have been asked in Parliament. Instead it is music, and the champion is Adele, a writer and singer of heartbreaking songs, who finished a two-year residency in Las Vegas. Adele Adkins, as she is known to her bank manager but to nobody else, has told interviewers and audiences that she has no plans for new music and will not perform again “for an incredibly long time”. Perhaps. Musicians can have long, sinuous careers, especially if they lay off the drugs and booze: The Eagles, an American rock band who broke up in 1980, are currently playing in Las Vegas. But Adele is such a star that even an extended pause is bad for the music business. Worse, it seems unlikely t
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