History Music / BryanAdams

* VocalTagTeam: Adams is fond of duets, for example: "It's Only Love" [With TinaTurner], "All For Love" [With RodStewart and Music/{{Sting}} ], "Rock Steady" [With Gretchen Peters] and "When You're Gone" [With [[Music/SpiceGirls Melanie C]]

* EpicRocking: While it's not very rock, his ballad "Let's Make a Night to Remember" clocks in at 10:40

* TheyAlsoDid: Since the start of his career, Adams has given a number of songs to other artists, with two noted examples being "Let's Talk About Love" to CelineDion and "The Way You Make Me Feel" to RonanKeating. He also is an accomplished photographer, having released several photo books since the late 90s.

* InTheStyleOf: Adams and Vallance wrote "Run To You" in the style of "Don't Fear The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult and offered it to the group as a potential comeback single, though they turned it down.

* BritishEnglish: Adams says "bloody" in You Want It You Got It. The fact he has British parents may explain his choice of word, but it is still really weird to hear him sing it with his Canadian accent. Jim Vallance posted a picture of the original lyric sheet for the song on his website, which clearly says "fucking" instead of "bloody". So it may have been deliberate censorship as the song was considered a potential single at the time.
** He also calls french fries 'chips' in an interview from 1985, although he might be humoring the Scottish interviewer.

One of UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}'s most successful musicians, Bryan Guy Adams (November 5, 1959--) entered the music industry as a songwriter in the late 1970s before achieving solo fame in TheEighties. Initially marketed as a "Canadian [[Music/BruceSpringsteen Springsteen]]", Adams developed his own distinctive [[ArenaRock melodic rock]] beginning with his second album, "You Want It, You Got It".

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One of UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}'s most successful musicians, Bryan Adams entered the music industry as a songwriter in the late 1970s before achieving solo fame in TheEighties. Initially marketed as a "Canadian [[Music/BruceSpringsteen Springsteen]]", Adams developed his own distinctive [[ArenaRock melodic rock]] beginning with his second album, "You Want It, You Got It".

One of UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}'s most successful musicians, '''Bryan Adams''' entered the music industry as a songwriter in the late 1970s before achieving solo fame in TheEighties. Initially marketed as a "Canadian [[Music/BruceSpringsteen Springsteen]]", Adams developed his own distinctive [[ArenaRock melodic rock]] beginning with his second album, "You Want It, You Got It".

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience - Grey. Many records of his feature black and white photos of him on the cover. His album You Want It You Got It features a painted in grey background. This color scheme was probably done to distinguish him from the brightly colored album covers of TheEighties and became a standard for him.

One of UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}'s most successful musicians, Bryan Adams entered the music industry as a songwriter in the late 1970s before achieving solo fame in TheEighties. Initially marketed as a "Canadian [[Music/BruceSpringsteen Springsteen]]", Adams developed his own distinctive [[ArenaRock melodic rock]] beginning with his second album, "You Want It, You Got It".

* BrokenBase: A lot of his older fans really hate the way Adams' public reputation went from hip pop-rocker to uncool adult contemporary balladeer with "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)", from which it still hasn't really recovered, even when he's made plenty of rock records since.
** Mutt Lange's production on "Waking Up The Neighbours", which makes Adams sound like Def Leppard, is a big BaseBreaker. The lack of Jim Vallance co-writes on the album doesn't help.
** There seems to be a portion of the fanbase who thinks 18 Til I Die is one of his best and On A Day Like Today sucks, and another portion who thinks On A Day Like Today is best and 18 Til I Die sucks. You won't find many who like both equally.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience - Grey. Many records of his feature black and white photos of him on the cover. His album You Want It You Got It also features a painted in grey background. This color scheme was probably done to distinguish him from the brightly colored album covers of TheEighties and became a standard for him.

* EmptySwimingPoolDive: The video for "Cuts Like A Knife" features one.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: He confirmed in an interview that, yes, "Summer of 69" actually ''is'' [[FreudWasRight named in reference to the sex act]] and that anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves. His co-writer, Jim Vallance, however claims otherwise. (It's possible that Vallance was thinking of the year and Adams wasn't, considering that Vallance was 17 at the summer of 1969, but Adams was only 9.)

* BestYearsOfYourLife[=/=]LoveNostalgiaSong: "Summer of 69". In the chorus, he even says outright "Those were the best days of my life".

** "Summer Of '69" is a deliberate and notable one (although WordOfGod is divided on this. Bryan states it is on purpose, his co-writer states it wasn't intentional).

* GloryDays: [[NostalgiaFilter Deconstructed by]] "Summer of 69".

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It's "Summer of 69" not "'69"

* BestYearsOfYourLife[=/=]LoveNostalgiaSong: "Summer of 69".

In 1991, Adams teamed up with [[RobertJohnMuttLange Mutt Lange]] to record the album ''Waking Up The Neighbours''. During these sessions they wrote a new ballad for the ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' [[AwardBaitSong soundtrack]]. Originally intended to be given to another artist, Adams released "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" himself, and it subsequently became ludicrously successful.