Bryan Adams – Would He Appear On A Tribute Album To An Unknown Songwriter?

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Bryan Adams

 

Bryan Adams “is arguably Canada’s brightest male star,” declared Nicholas Jennings in Maclean’s. His 1985 albumReckless sold more than ten million copies— impressive by any standard—but, as Jennings pointed out, Adams has enjoyed a wider distribution “than any Canadian in history.” Adams has owed this distinction primarily to straightforward rock anthems like “Kids Wanna Rock” and ballads like “Heaven.” Though some critics have dismissed Adams as a lesser version of rocker Bruce Springsteen, lacking the substance that the latter has infused into his songs, others have praised Adams’s simplicity. “His music is about guys and girls. They’re melodies that stick in your head,” explained Pat Steward, Adams’s drummer, to Jane O’Hara in anotherMaclean’s article.

Bryan Adams was born on November 5, 1959, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His parents were former British citizens, and his father, Conrad Adams, came from a military family. This background, coupled with the fact that Conrad Adams served in the Canadian diplomatic corps, meant a childhood of moving from place to place for Bryan. He attended military schools in several countries, including England, Austria, Portugal, and Israel. Adams recalled to Steve Pond in Rolling Stone that “the discipline that they taught me in school was good, because I was able to focus on things—but I didn’t realize that at the time. So I got sent to the headmaster a lot.” When he turned 16, however, his parents separated, and he went to live with his mother, Jane, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Bryan Adams’s early musical development is echoed, if not narrated, in the lyrics of his 1985 hit “Summer of ’69″: “I got my first real six-string / Bought it at the five-and-dime / Played it till my fingers bled / It was the summer of ’69,” as Pond quoted it. As an early teen, Adams bought his first guitar and started learning to play. As an adolescent, he pursued his rock goals with single-minded fervor. He explained to Pond: “In high school, I was too far into my music to even pay attention to girls.”

At the age of 16 Adams quit school and used the money his parents had saved for his higher education to buy a grand piano. He joined bands and played in nightclubs, supplementing his income by washing dishes, selling pet food, and working in record stores. “One summer night in 1976,” Jennings related, “after hearing a local rock band perform in Surrey, B[ritish] C[olumbia], … Adams … strode boldly up to the group’s producer and announced that he could sing better than its vocalist. He got an audition—and the job.” Not long after that, Adams met up with Jim Vallance, who had formerly written songs for the Canadian rock group Prism. As O’Hara phrased it, “Vallance was looking for a singer, Adams was looking for a route to musical respectability, and the two hit it off immediately.” The pair began writing songs together and recording dem- onstration tapes. Adams had a mild hit in 1979 with one of their collaborations, the disco-styled “Let Me Take You Dancing,” and they managed to sell some of their other creations to recording artists such as Joe Cocker, Juice Newton, and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Adams and Vallance also won first a publishing contract and then a recording contract with A & M Records.

Bryan Adams’s first solo album

Bryan Adams, was unsuccessful. O’Hara explained: “On it his voice is high-pitched and the songs predictable.” According to O’Hara, Adams wanted to call his next effort “Bryan Adams Hasn’t Heard of You Either,” but settled for You Want It, You Got It. The album was a moderate success, selling 500,000 copies and earning Adams the privilege of opening concerts for rock bands like the Kinks, Loverboy, and Foreigner. However, it was Adams’s third, Cuts Like a Knife, that pushed him to the level of rock stardom. The title song was a huge hit; the accompanying music video, involving a scantily clad woman and a gleaming knife, was considered controversial and attracted even more attention to Adams and his record. His 1985 album Reckless was even more popular, including the hits “Heaven” and “The Summer of ’69.”

Though he was selling records at a phenomenal rate and was a huge concert draw, Adams’s songwriting had not gained the favor of many rock music critics. O’Hara quoted a Rolling Stone reviewer: “Adams has typically produced the closest thing yet to generic rock ‘n’ roll, long on formal excellence but short on originality.” Perhaps conceding a lack of depth in his many songs about painful love relationships, Adams told Pond that during one concert performance he thought, “‘Man, I gotta sink my teeth into something else.’” One of the results of this thought was the song Adams recorded to earn money for famine relief in Ethiopia, “Tears Are Not Enough.” Another was his 1987 album Into the Fire. The disc included a protest song about Native American land rights, called “Native Son,” and a contemplative number about a veteran of World War I, titled “Remembrance Day.” Still, Adams handled his political principles gingerly. “I don’t like politics being rammed down people’s throats,” he confessed to Jennings. “But there’s a sensitive way of bringing up issues and making people think.”

After releasing Into the Fire, Adams embarked on a year-long tour. While the album sold fewer copies thanReckless, it nonetheless sold a million copies in the United States and another million to an international audience. Against expectations, he waited four years to release his next studio album. During the interim he contributed a steady steam of songs to motion pictures. In 1989 Adams played a small role in Clint Eastwood’s Pink Cadillac, and co-wrote “Drive All Night” (sung by Celine Dion on the soundtrack) with Vallance. Adams, Vallance, and Diane Warren then penned “When the Night Comes,” which became a Top 20 hit for Joe Cocker in 1989. “When the Night Comes” would be the last collaboration between Adams and Vallance; in the summer, the pair went their separate ways, and Adams formed a new partnership with Robert John “Mutt” Lange.

Bryan Adams – Robin Hood

In 1991 Kevin Costner invited Adams to compose the lyrics for the theme song to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. ”(Everything I Do) I Do It For You” reached number one on both the Adult Contemporary andBillboard Hot 100 charts, and the collaboration won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television. Adams also released Waking Up the Neighbors in 1991, an album that would reach number six on the Billboard 200 and spawn five hits (including “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”). “Waking up the Neighbours is a fun album and perfect for those who expect nothing more than an old-fashioned good time from their rock & roll,” wrote Jose F. Promis in All Music Guide.

But could we get Bryan Adams to appear on a tribute album to an unknown songwriter?

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