Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer, guitarist, songwriter and photographer. Some of his best-known albums are Reckless, 18 til I Die, and Waking Up the Neighbours.

Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for his contribution to popular music and his philanthropic work. He was also inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998, and more recently inducted into the Music Hall of Fame at Canada's Juno Awards in April 2006. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards for songwriting, and was recently nominated for his fifth Golden Globe (2007) for his songwriting in the film ‘Bobby’.

His self-titled debut album was released in February of 1980, and marked the beginning of what was to become a long songwriting partnership between Adams and co-writer Jim Vallance. Adams' second album, ‘You Want It You Got it’ was recorded in New York City in two weeks and it marked Adams' first album co-produced by Bob Clearmountain. It was released in 1981 and contained the FM radio hit ‘Lonely Nights’, but it was not until his third album, ‘Cuts Like A Knife’ in February 1983, that he broke through with four hits in, most notably with the title track. The album achieved much commercial success, rising to #8 on the Billboard Album Chart.

‘Reckless’ was released on Adams' 25th birthday, 5 November 1984. It reached #1 on the Billboard Album Chart and gave rise to no fewer than six hit singles, including ‘Run to You’, ‘Summer of '69’ and Adams' first #1 single, ‘Heaven’. Reckless has since been certified five times platinum in the US. Adams' 1987 album, ‘Into the Fire’ was also certified platinum. This was the last album completely written by Adams and Vallance, but many of the fragments of their other songs ended up on the forthcoming blockbuster ‘Waking up the Neighbours’.

Text Box: One of Adams' most successful albums is ‘Waking up the Neighbours’, co-produced by Adams and Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The album was released in September 1991 and featured the single "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You". His album and the single went to number one in many countries in the world in 1991 and 1992, with the song spending a record-breaking 16 weeks at number one on UK Singles Chart and 17 weeks on top of US Hot 100 Singles.

The next album was the hits collection ‘So Far So Good’ lead by a new song "Please Forgive Me", a slow rock ballad, both released from 1993. The album has since been certified five times platinum in the US.

In 2004, Adams released his first studio album in six years, ‘Room Service’. The album went to #4 in the UK and #1 in all of Europe, selling 440,000 copies in its first week there.

In 2005, Adams issued Anthology, a two disc set, released as a retrospective collection of hits and some more obscure tracks from 25 years of recording. He also released the DVD, “Live in Lisbon”.

At a June 2007 concert in Hamburg , Germany , Adams said he was trying for a fall (Autumn) release of the new album but still sounded uncertain.

Since the 1980s, Bryan Adams has been a noted social activist, to this day participating in concerts and other activities to help raise money and/or awareness for a variety of different causes.

Did you know??

He is a vegetarian.
He was arrested with marijuana as a teenager.
He works as a photographer when he is not making music and photographs clicked by him have been used by various fashion magazines
Worked with (almost) the same band and crew since the beginning.
First song was ‘Let me take you dancing’.
Played a gas station attendant in Pink Cadillac.
Was almost killed during a parachute jump. He jumped with an instructor as a tandem. When the instructor opened the parachute after a couple of somersaults, the parachute got stuck between their legs. For 24 seconds Bryan and his co-jumper felt down without a working parachute. He succeeded to open the spare parachute just a couple of seconds before the critical moment. They landed 1.5 km from the original target at a field.
Heaven was written in two days for the movie called A NIGHT IN HEAVEN
Sold more than 8 million copies of the single ‘(Everything I do) I do it for you’.
Refused to allow his song Only the Strong Survive, from his album Into the Fire, to be used for the film TOP GUN (1986), because he felt that the movie glorified war.
Performed in Pakistan's port city of Karachi to raise money for survivors of last October's earthquake. ( January 29, 2006)
Was shot with an air rifle in London when he was in the middle of a European tour. (2003)
There are reports he romanced Diana, Princess of Wales, with claims the Canadian singing star enjoyed a fling with Diana a year before her fatal Paris car crash in 1997. ( November 7, 2003)