The star, who closed the show by performing When We Were Young, also received best British single and the Global Success award.
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Coldplay won the award for best British group after opening Wednesday night’s show.
Critics’ Choice Award victor Jack Garratt has entered at number three with his debut album Phase, and Justin Bieber – who scooped up the award for worldwide male solo artist – is at number four. Lennox along with his friend Gary Oldman performed tremendously and at the end Lennox said that Bowie was “a quintessential visionary and the ultimate iconoclast”.
As she stood on stage with her Best British Female Solo Artist gong, she ended her speech by saying: ‘I’d like to take this moment to publicly support Kesha’. What makes it more meaningful for the British singer was that Astronaut Tim Peake personally presented the award! Perhaps, Adele was just overwhelmed with emotion that she forgot she was on live TV.
Justin Bieber took to the stage with James Bay for a stripped back of rendition of “Love Yourself” before Biebs took over and launched into “Sorry” – complete with dancers and some unsafe looking flames!
“Life is a journey”, he said.
“We’ve been away for a little while, so it’s been a bit like getting back on a bike tonight”, said singer Liam Payne.
As it stands, her total of four awards is equalled only by Blur, who won the same number in 1995 for their album Parklife. “She looked really stressed out”, the insider told the site earlier this week of Adele’s blink and you’ll miss it appearance at the Sony after party. Kesha has been locked in an increasingly nasty legal case with Dr. Luke and Sony which majorly hit the headlines this past week after a judge in the case denied her plea to be freed from her contract with the music company, who Adele is also under contract with.
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An onlooker told the Evening Standard: ‘I was in the entrance hall when Adele walked in. “For you all to be so kind to me, it’s so nice!” I was hoping to win one but to get that many was wonderful and very lovely.
