Adele new song: 'Hello' video sparks gushing response from fans on Twitter

Adele has not released any new music since her James Bond theme tune 'Skyfall' in 2012

Adele finally returns to the music scene in her striking new video for 'Hello' (Adele)

Adele has dropped her first new single and video in almost five years and, predictably, fans are going crazy in celebration of her big comeback.

The British singer-songwriter surprised everyone with a release date and track list for third album 25 yesterday, after sharing a 30-second teaser snippet of “Hello” during the ad break for The X Factor on Sunday night.

She has described 25 as a “make-up record” themed around her journey into adulthood, that sees her “making up for everything I ever did and never did”.

Adele joined Nick Grimshaw on the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show this morning to reveal the new song and admitted to feeling “sick” and “nervous”.

“I obviously want people to like it,” she said. “When I wrote it I knew this would be the first thing everyone heard from me. I want to surprise people. I don’t want to say something for the sake of it.”

Clearly, she need not have worried, as Twitter was soon awash with gushing comments supporting the 27-year-old...

...even if she does need to update her phone:

“Hello” is Adele’s first track since her Oscar-winning James Bond theme “Skyfall” in 2012, with 25 following 2011’s 21.

Listen to 25 in full from 20 November.