Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams, OC, OBC (born November 5 1959) is a Canadian singer and songwriter.

Musical career

At the age of seventeen, Adams sent a few demos to A&M Records and at eighteen was signed to a recording contract for one dollar. He has released fourteen albums since then.

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Two of those first demos, both written in 1978, have surfaced over the years: "Remember" ended up on his first album, and "Let Me Take You Dancing" was remixed as a disco twelve-inch record to attain a certain beat-per-minute (BPM) and hence bears no resemblance to Adams' natural voice.

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1978 - Twelve-inch record

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These songs were the start of a long songwriting partnership between Adams and co-writer Jim Vallance which led to the first solo album, Bryan Adams, released in 1980. His second album You Want It You Got It 1981, saw the radio hit "Lonely Nights", but it wasn't until his third album Cuts Like a Knife that he broke through with four hits in 1983. He quickly followed up that album with his popular Reckless at the end of 1984. It produced six Top 40 songs and was certified platinum. Next came Into the Fire in 1987 which was also certified platinum. This also saw the demise of the songwriting partnership between Adams and Vallance, but many of the fragments of their last songs ended up on the forthcoming studio album.

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Jim Vallance - 1980 - You Want It You Got It - Cuts Like a Knife - Top 40 - Into the Fire

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The 1994 album, Live!Live!Live! is the complete recording of a 3 July 1988 concert in Werchter, Belgium, which was also broadcast in Canada and on MTV around the world. One of his most successful albums is 1991's Waking up the Neighbours (see 1991 in music); it was produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange and Adams, and featured the single "Everything I Do (I Do It for You)". This song was number one everywhere in the world in 1991 and 1992, and spent a record-breaking sixteen weeks at number one on the charts in the United Kingdom. The next album was a greatest-hits collection So Far So Good.

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1994 - Live!Live!Live! - 3 July - 1988 - Werchter - Belgium - MTV - Waking up the Neighbours - 1991 in music - Robert John "Mutt" Lange - Everything I Do (I Do It for You) - United Kingdom - So Far So Good

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