Ginger Rogers the reason so many women have fantasized about dancing with Fred Astaire is that Ginger Rogers conveyed the impression that dancing with him is the most thrilling experience imaginable". According to Astaire, when they were first teamed together in "Flying Down to Rio", "Ginger had never danced with a partner before. She faked it an awful lot. She couldn't tap and she couldn't do this and that ... but Ginger had style and talent and improved as she went along. She got so that after a while everyone else who danced with me looked wrong." Author Dick Richards, in his
An Evening with Adele Etta James was supposed to appear at the performance but cancelled at the last-minute due to illness and was replaced by Chaka Khan. The last performance of the tour was at the North Sea Jazz Festival. An official tour book containing exclusive pictures and behind-the-scene information of the tour is available for purchase on Adele's official site. Source: The concert at The Roundhouse (a part of the iTunes Festival) was recorded and released as "iTunes Live from SoHo". An Evening with Adele An Evening with Adele was the debut concert tour by British singer Adele, in support of her debut