He might be one of the most highly-regarded bass guitar players in the world, but Pino Palladino says that it came as something of a shock to him to be asked to play on Adele’s 2011 album, 21, the record that turned her into a global superstar.
By this point, Palladino had already worked with some of the biggest stars in the world - Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Elton John and The Who, to name just a few - but when he picked up the phone one day and discovered that a world-famous producer was on the end of the line, it still came as a surprise.
