CAROLE Davis tasted life as a superstar when she was randomly picked to sing in front of a 17,000-strong crowd in America with rocker Bryan Adams.

The 39-year-old mother-of-two was sent to Arkansas by her employer Asda, for the annual Walmart shareholders meeting, in June.

But she ended up, microphone in hand, singing a full rendition of Baby When You're Gone, Adams' Top Five UK hit with Spice Girl Mel C last year, on stage at one of his concerts.

Carole, of Lynthorpe Road, Blackburn, was selected for the transatlantic trip after impressing her bosses with her vibrant personality and dedication to her work as a fund-raising co-ordinator at Blackburn Asda.

She was one of 240 British workers to go but the only one of the 17,000 Walmart employees and locals attending the Fayettville concert to get any where near the star.

And Canadian Bryan, currently at number five in the charts with Here I Am, invited her on stage when he spied her green shirt out of the loudest group of people in the baseball stadium.

She said: "Coming from England we all knew his songs and were singing and screaming just having a total blow-out. But then I realised mine was the only hand still in the air and he was telling me to join him on stage.

"It was so far to the stage I can't have been more than a little dot to him but I was determined not to fall and make a fool of myself.

"He shouted out to me 'why not have a cup of tea on the way' I was taking so long!" But Carole amazed her colleagues by keeping a cool head -- cashing in on her occasional Saturday night karaoke practice sessions singing Abba tracks.

She added: "At first my knees were like jelly when I caught a glimpse of everyone. I was in a state of shock I think.

"He has recently broken his arm and asked me to tuck in his shirt. I just couldn't believe it was happening.

"But then I just thought I am a million miles from home, just forget all these people, and enjoy yourself. And I really played the part with him, banging bottoms and dancing together. He had a huge smirk on his face and was laughing with his drummer. Halfway through he threw the word sheet away.

"And on the way back to my seat all the Americans were saying 'Go Carole' and giving me high fives. It was hilarious." But the taste of stardom did not stop when she took her bow with Bryan.

She was recognised by people in a shopping mall buying clothes the next day, travelling on a bus and then stopped by a television crew in Bentonville.

Carole said: "In the days that followed I signed everything from dollar bills to T-shirts. I told the TV crew I had found the eighth wonder of the world -- Bryan Adams!

"And all the directors of Asda wanted to meet me. There is no way I will experience anything like that again in my life. It was just too way out!

Bryan Adams fact panel:

In 1991 Everything I Do, I Do It For You was at number one in the UK chart for 16 weeks. It holds the record for the longest consecutive weeks at number one.

The single sold 8 million copies.

He was arrested for carrying pot when he was a teenager.

Bryan almost died when he jumped out of an aeroplane for a tandem parachute jump and the main chute failed to open.

The first band he played with was Sweeney Todd in Vancouver scene when the lead singer Nick Gilder left.

He is a vegan.

His parents live in England and his mother works as a teacher.

His first song was Let Me Take You Dancing.

He has done a voice-over for a cartoon called Hoodwink playing the part of a mean, clumsy rat.