Adele's George Michael tribute at the GRAMMYs was good, but the "Fastlove" cover's main draw was when the singer made the call to stop the band and start over. And it turns out the performance almost never happened in the first place.
"The dream was Adele—we had to get it right," said GRAMMY Awards executive producer Ken Ehrlich in a new Billboard story. But George Michael's manager, Michael Lippman, originally dreamt of more participants: Beyoncé, Rihanna and James Corden.