Adam Levine of Maroon 5.Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty
Maroon 5’sLas Vegas residencyjust makes sense.
“We’ve gotten to the point where we’ve almost just done it all. We’ve been doing it for this crazy long amount of time, and so we thought [a Vegas residency] was the logical next step because it was something that we had never embarked upon,” Levine, 44, told PEOPLE. “Also, over the years, Vegas has become this kind of beacon for everybody. … The timing of it all just makes sense to us.”
Levine also got emotional when addressing his father, Fred, who was on hand as well.
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“It was a big opening night in Vegas,” Levine said. “It’s close to home and no one has to deal with, you know, traveling 10 hours with kids and jet lag.”
“It felt right. It felt really, really sweet to have everybody here. I wouldn’t have wanted to do it without them,” he added of his brood.
Throughout the nearly two-hour show, Maroon 5 whips through 22 songs, perhaps none more sentimental than 2019’s “Memories,” which is based on the loss of the band’s manager and Levine’s friend, Jordan “Jordi” Feldstein, who died in 2017 of a heart attack.
Prior to the performance of the song, Jordi is honored on the theater’s screens.
“It’s always hard [to perform that song.] It’ll never be easy,” Levine said of “Memories.”
He added, “It’s not easy to share that part of us, but it’s important and necessary to talk about it at a certain point. I think enough time had passed where we had been able to process some amount of it to be able to share it with people and celebrate who he was and who he still is to us and our history.”
With over 96 million albums sold worldwide and nine singles with over 1 billion streams, there’s no question the band has had quite a history.
“Twenty years feels like the first chapter of our career, and we have now a collection of songs that I feel like we can bring to Vegas and that stand up on their own,” lead guitarist James Valentine told PEOPLE. “Somebody coming in off the [Las Vegas] Strip can come in and see the band and be like, ‘Oh yeah, I know all these songs.’ That’s a good position for us to be in.”
The band is far from done, too, but they’re keeping new music close to the vest.
“We have something coming that’s very, very special. I think the best thing we’ve done in a long time,” Levine teased. “That’s all I’m going to say on that.”
source: people.com
