With his distinctive vocals and award winning songwriting skills, Canadian musician Bryan Adams name remains one of the most recognized of our time.
This spring he releases his 14th CD – Room Service. Produced by Adams, Room Service was largely recorded in hotel rooms and backstage while on tour throughout Europe. Upon its release in the fall of 2004, the album debuted at No. 1 on the European Top 100 album chart.
The first US single from the album is This Side of Paradise . The world just flies by and you don’t have any control over it – it just happens – all you can really hope for is some constant to hold on to, says Adams. Recorded in Milan, Why Do You Have to be so Hard to Love shows Adams voice off at its best. Open Road and Room Service have a disarming freshness with a hint of yesterday while I Was Only Dreamin recorded in Paris features a stirring arrangement by Bryan’s long-time collaborator/composer Michael Kamen, who died in 2003. The 11 tracks on Room Service are quintessential Bryan Adams.
Adams career was launched with the release of his self-titled debut album Bryan Adams in 1980 on A&M Records, soon to be followed by his second album, You Want It, You Got It, released a year later. Adams jibbed at how difficult it was to get heard back then, by originally titling the album, Bryan Adams Hasn’t Heard Of You Either but it was rejected by the label. The first single Lonely Nights became his first Hot 100 entry at No. 84 peaking at No. 3 on the mainstream rock chart.
His third album, Cuts Like A Knife released in 1983, broke Adams in the United States and featured two smash songs, Straight From The Heart and the title track. MTV had just started that year and Cuts Like A Knife was one of the first videos ever played.
Adams fourth album Reckless was released on his 25th birthday, November 5, 1984. The single Run to You reached the Top Ten, followed by no less than five huge singles – Somebody , Heaven , Summer of 69 , One Night Love Affair , and a duet with Tina Turner, It’s Only Love . One of the highlights that year included being the first artist to be broadcast from the American side of the Live Aid concert from Philadelphia on July 13th.
Into the Fire was released in March of 1987, prefaced by the single Heat of the Night, which became Adams fifth Top Ten hit in the U.S. One of the concerts that year, in Werchter, Belgium, was filmed for a television special, Bryan Adams: Live in Belgium . It was later packaged into his next CD, Live! Live! Live!
In 1991, Waking Up the Neighbours was released and Adams once again hit the road this time until July of 1993. The album featured two Top Ten hits Can’t Stop This Thing We Started and (Everything I Do) I Do It for You . Before it finished running its course there would be three more Top 40 hits, There Will Never Be Another Tonight , ’do I Have to Say the Words? and Thought I’d Died and Gone to Heaven . Waking Up the Neighbours also earned Adams a Grammy nomination and his first Academy Award nomination.
His record company released a hits compilation, So Far So Good, in November 1993 featuring the hit song Please Forgive Me . Then came the number one theme song for the movie The Three Musketeers, All for Love , recorded with Rod Stewart and Sting in January of 1994.
In 1994, Bonnie Raitt invited Adams to perform on her live album Road Tested with a song he had written for her called Rock Steady .
At the beginning of 1996 Adams released a new album 18 Til I Die. The album featured the flamenco-tinged Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? from the Johnny Depp/Marlon Brando film Don Juan DeMarco. Adams was rewarded with yet another No. 1 hit, as well as a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and his second Oscar nomination for Best Song.
MTV released Adams Unplugged concert in the fall of 1997, and his next studio album, On a Day Like Today followed in October 1998.
In November 1999, Adams issued a second hits compilation, The Best of Me and then in the spring of 2002 he collaborated with Hans Zimmer on his first full-length song score for a film, the animated DreamWorks feature Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. The soundtrack earned Adams and Zimmer a Golden Globe Nomination for their collaboration.
Adams has released two books of photography; Made in Canada, published in 1999 and American Women (2005) with Calvin Klein. Both books are being sold in aid of breast cancer research and awareness.
Aside from his most recent album you will also find new Adams songs on the forthcoming film Colour Me Kubrick (2005) and on Racing Stripes (2005) released earlier this year.
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Just a correction about Bryan’s photography books. He has produced 3 books, not 2. The second one was called Haven with British women as his subjects and money raised went to breast cancer research in Britian. – said LoriW on Aug 08, 2005
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