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Adele took ages to record Skyfall, alright?
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 19 December 2012
Contrary to recent reports, it took Adele longer than ten minutes to record the vocals for her James Bond theme song, ‘Skyfall’.
The ‘ten minute’ claim arose from an interview with the song’s producer and co-writer Paul Epworth, who said of the moment that he finished writing the initial instrumental version: “I thought, ‘This could be the song’, and I rang her up and said, ‘It might be too dark’. But she said she loved it. [And once she was in the studio] within ten minutes, she put down most of the vocals. She had the lyrics ready in her head when she drove over. It was the most absurd thing. She’s fast, but it was really quite phenomenal”
But yesterday, Epworth said via Twitter: “OK OK… Can I clarify this? Adele didn’t record her final ‘Skyfall’ vocal in ten minutes. We cut the first draft of the verse and chorus. It took us a while to hone the track into the end result. Don’t you just love it when things are taken out of context?”