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Bryan Adams OC, OBC, (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[1] and the Order of British Columbia[2] for his contribution to popular music and his philanthropic work. He was also inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998,[3] and more recently inducted into the Music Hall of Fame at Canada's Juno Awards in April 2006.[4] He has been nominated for three Academy Awards for songwriting,[5] and was recently nominated for his fifth Golden Globe (2007) for his songwriting in the film Bobby".[6]
Early life
Musical career1970sAs an adolescent, he pursued his rock goals with single-minded fervor. He explained to Steve Pond from Rolling Stone Magazine[citation needed]: "In high school, I was too far into my music to even pay attention to girls." At the age of fifteen Adams quit school and used the money his parents had saved for his higher education to buy a grand piano. He played in nightclubs in bands like Shock and Sweeney Todd, which released an album called If Wishes Were Horses with Adams as lead singer.[8][9] He supplemented his income by washing dishes, selling pet food, and working in record stores. A serendipitous meeting with drummer Jim Vallance in a Vancouver music store led to a song-writing partnership that continues to this day. As O'Hara from Macleans magazine 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 demonstration tapes. In 1978, at the age of 18, Adams sent a few demo recordings to A&M Records in Toronto, and was signed to them not long afterwards for the sum of one dollar.[10] He has written and released fourteen albums since then. Some of the first demos written in 1978 have surfaced over the years, most notably "I'm Ready" (recorded for both the album Cuts Like a Knife and later his release for MTV Unplugged) and "Remember", which went on his first album. Both songs were covered by other artists before his first album was even released.] 1980sThe 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. With the exception of "Remember" and "Wastin' Time" most of the album was recorded from October 29 - November 29 1979 at Manta Studios in Toronto and co-produced by Adams and Vallance. The album was certified gold in Canada much later in 1986.
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 February 1983, that he broke through with four hits in 1983, most notably with the title track. The album achieved much commercial success, rising to #8 on the Billboard Album Chart. Several of the songs on the album, including the title track, remain concert favourites with Adams to this day. 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' next album, Into the Fire in 1987, which 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 block buster Waking up the Neighbours. Live! Live! Live! is the complete recording of a concert in Werchter, Belgium on 3 July 1988, which was broadcast by the CBC in Canada and on MTV around the world. 1990sOne 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 of 1991 and featured the single "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", which was also used in the film "Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves", starring Kevin Costner and Alan Rickman. This album and the song went to number one everywhere in the world in 1991 and 1992, with the song spending a record-breaking sixteen weeks at number one on UK Singles Chart and 17 weeks on top of US Hot 100 Singles Sales and selling a record 3 million copies in the US. Canadian content regulations were revised in 1991 to allow radio stations to credit airplay of this album towards their legal requirements to play Canadian music. 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. So Far So Good has since been certified five times platinum in the US Later the same year Adams recorded the single All for Love together with Sting and Rod Stewart, for the film "The Three Musketeers", starring Kiefer Sutherland and Charlie Sheen. In the period 1996-1999 Adams released an album each year. 18 til I Die summer 1996, which featured the flamenco flavoured hit Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? with Spanish guitarist Paco De Lucia from the film "Don Juan De Marco" starring Johhny Depp and Marlon Brando. This song earned Adams his second Oscar nomination. The album sold more than 1 million copies in the US. Bryan Adams MTV Unplugged was released in the winter of 1997, On a Day Like Today autumn 1998, and The Best of Me worldwide in 1999 and in the U.S. in early 2002. In this period Adams made 3 duets; Rock Steady (with Bonnie Raitt), I Finally Found Someone (with Barbra Streisand) earning him his third Oscar nomination and When You're Gone (with Melanie C). When You're Gone was a #3 hit in the UK back in 1999 In 1995 "Bryan Adams", a book with pictures by Andrew Catlin and text by Bryan Adams, was published by Firefly Books. 2000sIn 2001, Adams released the live videos Live at the Budokan recorded at the Nippon Budokan arena in Tokyo, and Live at Slane Castle, the recording of the Slane Concert which Bryan headlined in 2000 In May 2002, he released the Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron DreamWorks soundtrack, which went gold in the US. In 2004, Adams released his first studio album for six years, Room Service. The album went to #4 in the UK and #1 in Europe. To celebrate his 25th anniversary, in 2005, Adams released Anthology, a two disc set, released in 2005 as a retrospective collection of hits and some more obscure tracks from the 25 years of recording. He also released the DVD, Live in Lisbon. No one has been able to verify how many millions of albums he has sold during his career. Recent/Future EventsAdams continues his work in film soundtracks, in the hit movie, "The Guardian" starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher, Adams wrote and performed the song "Never Let Go" which was featured in the closing credits. It has become known as the theme to the movie. Adams also co-wrote the song Never Gonna Break My Faith for the film Bobby which was sung by Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige. This work earned him a Golden Globe Nomination in 2007. Adams has talked of recording a new album since 2005 and summer of 2007 seems possible. Adams also continues to tour regularly. Backing BandUnlike many solo artists, Adams does not use a rotation of session musicians in his Backup band; he has a group of musicians with whom he tours regularly, the lineup of which seldom changes. In this respect, Bryan Adams is more like a band than a solo artist, with the same group of musicians appearing on all albums and live performances. The current lineup is as follows:
Scott and Curry have been working with Adams consistently since the early 1980s, while Fisher and Breit have only been part of the band since the early 2000s. Before them, Tommy Mandel regularly played keyboards in the band and Dave Taylor played bass guitar (80's-1997) Social activist
Image:Badams.jpg "Historic Day." Adams in Karachi.
As a photographerImage:LeadAward2006c.jpg Adams accepting a LeadAward for photography in 2006. Adams has had his photographs published in British Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Jane and i-D, among others. His other photographic efforts include publishing 'Zoo Magazine', the fashion/art magazine based in Berlin, Germany. On 1 June 2005, he published his first book of photos in the United States with Calvin Klein called American Women; proceeds from this book go to breast cancer research for programs at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He released a similar book of photos called Made in Canada in December 1999. A year later he published a second book, Haven (2000), in the U.K which featured photos of British women. All 3 of his books have been dedicated to his friend Donna, who died of breast cancer. As a photographer, Adams has done shoots for some of his musical peers, including Robert Plant, Moby, Joss Stone and Plácido Domingo.[11] In 2004, Adams was invited, along with other photographers from the Commonwealth, to photograph Queen Elizabeth II during her Golden Jubilee; one of the photographs from this session was used as a Canadian postage stamp in 2004[12] and again in 2005 (see Queen Elizabeth II definitive stamp (Canada)), another portrait of both Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip is now in the National Portrait Gallery in London. On the 15 March 2006, Adams was presented with the Gold Award for his photo editorial on actor Mickey Rourke at the German Lead Awards in Hamburg, Germany. In September 2006, a retrospective portfolio of Adams's work was released by Stern Magazine in Germany with a topless photograph of the singer Pink on the cover. Photographic Exhibitions include:
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