Adele dominates BRIT Awards with four wins

Bay revealed the pairing came about when her met Bieber at an MTV Europe Music Awards after-party and the pop superstar simply said he needed a guitarist for his BRITs performance and Bay was more than happy to lend him his strumming skills.

Adele became more emotional as the ceremony continued, bursting into tears after accepting the global success prize – which recognises success overseas.

The world-conquering diva also took trophies for British female solo artist of the year and British single of the year, for lovelorn ballad “Hello”, and album of the year for global chart-topper “25”.

Jets of flame erupted liberally during Bieber’s performance of “Sorry”. The altercation at the club didn’t seem to phase the star, as he walked away from the Brit Awards with the award for Best Solo Male International Artist.

“When I was watching the girls on X Factor, I never thought in a million years that I’d be going to the Brits with my daughter and she’d be up for two awards – who would actually believe that would happen?” I am a huge fan of Adele and think she is just an fantastic woman on both the inside and outside.

On Wednesday evening, the Love Yourself singer took home the International Male Solo Artist award and made sure to celebrate at a myriad of parties. During her speech, she said the F-word.

Lead singer Chris Martin referenced the members of boy band One Direction as he pointed to his fellow Coldplay members, saying: “What a treat from Harry, Zayn, Liam and me, Niall”.

“And I would like to take this moment to publicly support Kesha”.

“David you were mortal, but your potential was superhuman”, he said, “and your music lives on”.

“You know when you’ve got that little bit of hope and that little bit of faith and then they didn’t”, he told BBC Radio 1.

Barbados-born Rihanna marked her first performance on British soil since 2012 with a raunchy performance of “Work”, her new song with Drake, which featured a surprise appearance from the Canadian rapper.

Bowie had once said listening to Lorde was like “listening to tomorrow”, and the fitting tribute was widely lauded, even by Bowie’s son (who was strongly disapproving of Lady Gaga’s recent tribute at the Grammys).