... to rock royalty like Paul McCartney. Don't you wish she would have been in on his blockbuster performance of "The End" with Joe Walsh, Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl? She would have held her own.

And how did her voice hold up? Her doctor says there's no reason to think there'll be a relapse, and although Adele fully expects to push herself to the limit again one day, she says she feels like her throat has a "clean slate." "I can't remember a time when it felt so smooth to sing," she says.