Countless Adele fans have noted that the singer's emotion-packed tunes have been lifesavers during difficult personal times. However, here's a case in which her music literally did, indeed, save a life: A British mom is crediting one of Adele's hits as the catalyst that woke her little girl out of a coma.{Photo: Eamonn McCormack}

Seven-year-old Charlotte Neve suffered a rare type of brain hemorrhage in mid-April, and slipped into a coma after two operations were performed to stop the bleeding. Doctors told her mother, Leila, that her daughter's chances didn't look good.

Charlotte remained in the coma for a week--when, one day, her mother came to visit and heard Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" playing on the radio. As this was a song she and Charlotte both enjoyed, Leila began singing along.

Unexpectedly, Charlotte smiled in response, surprising the hospital staff.

"I couldn't believe it," Leila Neve told the Telegraph. "It was the first time she had reacted to anything since the hemorrhage. The nurses were astounded and told me to keep singing, and she smiled again...[They] said it was like I 'unlocked her,' and from that day she started getting better and better."

Of the Beatles, it's John Lennon who typically gets credit for writing songs about "lovers and friends I still can recall." Sir Paul McCartney? Not nearly so confessional, at least according to the conventional wisdom. How much personal detail is anyone going to find in "Ob-la-Di, Ob-la-Da," "Live and Let Die," or "The Girl is Mine"?

But as Sir Paul turns 70, it's time for Lennon-favoring detractors as well as fans to face up to the fact that Macca has left us a secret autobiography, in song, without ever having set pen to paper for an official memoir. His wives, parents, children, and childhood—and yes, even his oft-fractious relationship with Lennon—have all been covered in his music, even if he's tended to be a bit more opaque about it. Here's a look back at his life through his own songwriting:

Songs About John Lennon

"TOO MANY PEOPLE" (1971)

McCartney has acknowledged taking a swipe at his former partner in this track from Ram, his second post-Beatles release. "'Too many people

Ever wonder how Cher manages to look so great at age 66? Look no further than her genes, as evidenced by a photo the singer/actress tweeted of her beautiful mother, Georgia Holt, on Wednesday.Cher and her Mom/Twitter

The shot was taken en route to meet President Obama--Cher took Mom along as her "date"--and it appears even he was impressed by Holt's slender and youthful appearance.

"Told him mom's 86," Cher tweeted of the meeting. "He said 'Georgia, tell me what u eat' & smiled!"

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While in London Wednesday for the premiere of her movie, "Katy Perry: Part Of Me," the pop star had dinner with her off-on boyfriend, Robert Ackroyd, guitarist for Florence + Machine.

The couple went public with their relationship at the Coachella Music Festival in April, four months after Perry announced her separation from husband Russell Brand. They were photographed hugging and kissing at the two weekend indie music event in California.