--- description: "And it makes me so emotional" title: Adele Found Inspiration in Kate Bush for New Tour image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd25db3aa5f07c65/69887302196cf4d033039352/music-adele_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Adele Says that Kate Bush Inspired Her New Tour by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 2, 2015 1:37 PM CUT  Adele performs during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, in 2013. Adele performs during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, in 2013.Chris Pizzello—Invision/AP by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 2, 2015 1:37 PM CUT Adele shattered all expectations with her latest record sales for her most recent album, _25,_ and the _Hello_ singer said she decided to go on tour because she was inspired by fellow British music star Kate Bush. Bush, who rose to fame in the 70s, returned to live performing in 2014, her first show in decades. In an interview with the [New York _Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/01/arts/music/adele-on-love-fame-ego-and-25.html?%5Fr=0 "undefined"), Adele said that the comeback performance she saw was all about Bush’s parenthood. “I read somewhere, and I don’t know if it’s true or not, that \[her son\] said when he was 16, ‘I want to know now why everyone loves you.’ And it makes me so emotional,” Adele told the _Times._ “After that show, it was: ‘I don’t want to wait. I don’t want to wait till my kid is 16, I want to show him now.'” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4132365/adele-kate-bush-tour/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4132365/adele-kate-bush-tour/"},"headline":"Adele Says that Kate Bush Inspired Her New Tour","datePublished":"2015-12-02T13:37:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:02:00.712Z","description":"\"And it makes me so emotional\"","url":"https://time.com/4132365/adele-kate-bush-tour/","keywords":["Music","Adele"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd25db3aa5f07c65/69887302196cf4d033039352/music-adele_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd25db3aa5f07c65/69887302196cf4d033039352/music-adele_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Adele","caption":"Adele","creditText":"Chris Pizzello—Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4132365/adele-kate-bush-tour/","name":"Adele Says that Kate Bush Inspired Her New Tour"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Five Things You May Not Know About Adele, The Savior Of Song","description":"Adele was an aspirational singer on Myspace before becoming a worldwide phenomenon.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ps8KQX1S/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-11-20T19:52:54.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ps8KQX1S.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4132365/adele-kate-bush-tour/","duration":"PT2M17S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4132365/adele-kate-bush-tour/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```