Adele cringes: "I can't believe I did a peace sign on TV — like Ringo Starr!"
In a tiny backstage dressing room at the Roundhouse venue in north London, the 19-year-old singer re-enacts her hippy faux pas — two fingers raised in a V — and cackles like a Cockney barmaid.
Tonight, at the TV-recorded launch party for this month's Brit Awards, she sang her intoxicating, soul-pop, soon-to-be-classic single, "Chasing Pavements," responded to the applause with a peace sign and mouthed the words, "That was awful."