| Bryan Adams |
| | Background information | | Born | November 5, 1959 (1959-11-05) (age 48) | | Origin | Kingston, Ontario, Canada | | Genre(s) | Rock, hard rock, pop rock | | Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician, photographer | | Instrument(s) | Vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards, piano, harmonica | | Years active | 1977 – Present | | Label(s) | A&M, Polydor, Universal Music | | Website | BryanAdams.com | Bryan Adams OC, OBC, (born Bryan Guy Adams [1][2][3][4][5]) November 5, 1959 at Kingston, Ontario)[6][5][7] is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, musician and photographer. Some of his best-known albums are Reckless, 18 til I Die, and Waking Up the Neighbours. Bryan Adams (born November 5, Canadian singer and songwriter. ...
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Main articles: History of Canada, Timeline of Canadian history Canada has been inhabited by aboriginal peoples (known in Canada as First Nations) for at least 40,000 years. ...
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A photographer at the Calgary Folk Music Festival Paparazzi at the Tribeca Film Festival A photographer is a person who takes a photograph using a camera. ...
Reckless was one of Bryan Adams most successful albums. ...
18 Til I Die is a rock album by Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams released in 1996 (see 1996 in music). ...
Waking up the Neighbours is a rock album by Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams released in 1991 (see 1991 in music). ...
His 16 consecutive weeks spent on top of the UK Singles Charts (for "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You") remains a record. The UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by the Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the music industry. ...
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You is a song co-written and performed by Bryan Adams, featured on Waking up the Neighbours and on the soundtrack for the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves in 1991. ...
Musical career
1970s Bryan passed part of his adolescence in Portugal, he lived in Birre, Cascais, 25 km from Lisbon. His musical goals began during his teenage years, as he explained to Carlo D'Agostino from Rolling Stone magazine, "In high school, I was too far into my music to even pay attention to girls." At the age of 16, Adams quit school and played in nightclubs in bands like Shock and Sweeney Todd, which released an album called If Wishes Were Horses with the very young 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 Maclean's 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. Location - Country Portugal - Region Lisboa - Subregion Greater Lisbon - District or A.R. Lisbon Mayor António Capucho - Party PSD/CDS-PP Area 97. ...
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For other uses of the name Sweeney, see Sweeney Sweeney Todd was a Canadian glam rock band in the 1970s. ...
If Wishes Were Horses is an album by Canadian glam rock band Sweeney Todd. ...
James Douglas Vallance (born 1952) is a Canadian musician and songwriter who has written for Ozzy Osbourne, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper and Bryan Adams. ...
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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 released 14 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. Also recorded during this time was a demo of the song "Let Me Take You Dancing". It was remixed and sped up beyond recognition by his record company, and therefore doesn't appear on any of Adams' albums. A&M redirects here. ...
Let Me Take You Dancing is a song recorded by Bryan Adams. ...
1980s
 Adams in his early years. The 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 in 1986. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Bryan Adams was the self-titled debut album by Canadian rock singer Bryan Adams released in February 1980 on A&M Records. ...
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During the early 1980s Adams and Vallance also co-wrote a number of songs for Vallance's band Prism. Among these was "Don't Let Him Know", which turned out to be Prism's only Billboard Top 40 hit (#39 in 1982), but the first of many for Adams as a songwriter. (See Songs written for and/or performed by other artists in the Discography). Prisms Armageddon album, 1979 (re-released in 2004) Prism is a Canadian rock band formed in Vancouver in 1976. ...
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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 (January 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. You Want It You Got It is Bryan Adamss second solo album, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). ...
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See also: Musical groups established in 1981 Record labels established in 1981 list of years in music // January 10 - Revival of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance opens at Broadways Uris Theatre, starring Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith February 14 - Billy Idol leaves the band Generation...
Cuts Like a Knife is the third solo album by Canadian musician Bryan Adams, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). ...
See also: 1983 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1983 Record labels established in 1983 // Michael Jacksons Thriller, the most successful album not only of 1983, but of all time, was released in 1982 and began its epic domination of the music charts the following year, 1983. ...
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". Although remixed Bryan Adams was the original song writer. All six singles charted in the top 20 in Canada. Reckless has since been certified five times platinum in the US. Reckless was one of Bryan Adams most successful albums. ...
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See also: // January 21 - Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood reaches number one in the UK singles chart: it spends a total of forty-two weeks in the Top 40. ...
Run to You is a song written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance. ...
Summer of 69 is one of Canadian rock singer Bryan Adamss biggest hits and most recognizable songs. ...
Audio sample Heaven is a power ballad written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance and was first released in 1983 on the soundtrack album for A Night In Heaven, a film about a male stripper. ...
In 1984, Tina Turner recorded a duet with Adams entitled "It's Only Love". In addition to being a radio and MTV staple, the song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. In 1986 a live performance won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Stage Performance. Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock) November 26, 1939) is an 11 time Grammy Award-winning (sharing three), American Singer, Dancer, Record Producer, Executive Producer, Film Producer, Actress, Writer, Performer, Songwriter, Author and occasional Painter whose career has spanned from 1956 to present. ...
Its Only Love is a hit rock duet recorded by Grammy Award winning Rock singers Tina Turner and Bryan Adams. ...
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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. See also: Musical groups established in 1987 Record labels established in 1987 // January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ...
Into the Fire is the fifth studio album by Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams, released in 1987 (see 1987 in music). ...
Waking up the Neighbours is a rock album by Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams released in 1991 (see 1991 in music). ...
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. Live! Live! Live! is a Bryan Adams live album. ...
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1990s One of Adams' most successful albums is Waking up the Neighbours co-produced by Adams and Robert Lange. The album was released in September 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 single went to number one in many countries in the world in 1991 and 1992, with the single spending record-breaking 16 weeks at number one on UK Singles Chart and 17 weeks on top of US Hot 100 Singles Sales. It also made record-breaking sales of 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. Adams has won a 1991 Grammy Award in the Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television category for co-writing it. Waking up the Neighbours is a rock album by Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams released in 1991 (see 1991 in music). ...
Robert John Mutt Lange (IPA of surname: [1]) (born November 16, 1948) is an award-winning record producer and songwriter of popular music. ...
See also: 1991 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1991 Record labels established in 1991 // 1991 was the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough. ...
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You is a song co-written and performed by Bryan Adams, featured on Waking up the Neighbours and on the soundtrack for the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves in 1991. ...
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was a 1991 film directed by Kevin Reynolds. ...
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American film actor, director and producer. ...
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born February 21, 1946) is an acclaimed, award-winning English film, television and stage actor. ...
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The Hot 100 Singles Sales (also known as Singles Sales) is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. ...
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The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media has been awarded since 1988. ...
The next album was the hits collection So Far So Good lead by the new song "Please Forgive Me", a slow rock ballad, both released in 1993. The single reached #1 in Canada, Australia and other countries and the album has since been certified five times platinum in the US. So Far so Good is a compilation album by Bryan Adams, released by A&M Records in November 1993. ...
For the David Gray song, see Please Forgive Me (David Gray song). ...
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Later the same year Adams recorded his next #1-single "All for Love" together with Sting and Rod Stewart, for the film The Three Musketeers, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Charlie Sheen. All For Love is a hit song performed by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting. ...
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Rod Stewart CBE (born January 10, 1945), is a singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England, with Scottish parentage. ...
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In 1995, Bryan Adams, a book written by Adams, was published by Firefly Books. Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...
In the period 1996-1999, Adams released an album each year. 18 til I Die in 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 DeMarco starring Johnny Depp and Marlon Brando. The song became Adams third #1-single in a row in both Australia and Canada. This song also 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; See also: 1996 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1996 Record labels established in 1996 January - two teenagers, Nicholaus McDonald and Brian Bassett, aged 18 and 16 respectively, murdered Bassetts parents and younger brother in McCleary. ...
See also: 1999 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1999 Record labels established in 1999 // January 7 After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation. ...
18 Til I Die is a rock album by Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams released in 1996 (see 1996 in music). ...
See also: 1996 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1996 Record labels established in 1996 January - two teenagers, Nicholaus McDonald and Brian Bassett, aged 18 and 16 respectively, murdered Bassetts parents and younger brother in McCleary. ...
Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? is a 1995 song by Bryan Adams from the Don Juan DeMarco soundtrack. ...
Paco de Lucía is an internationally recognized Spanish flamenco guitarist, and leading exponent of the New Flamenco style. ...
Don Juan DeMarco is a film starring Johnny Depp as a man who believes himself to be Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. ...
John Christopher Depp II[1] (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, best known for his frequent portrayals of offbeat and eccentric characters such as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and the titular character of Tim Burtons Edward Scissorhands. ...
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Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
This is the MTV Unplugged album by Bryan Adams, however this CD album version doesnt document fully what Adams had originally recorded for the DVD version of this release. ...
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On a Day Like Today is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music). ...
See also: 1998 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1998 Record labels established in 1998 // 1998 - The single Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls sets a new hot 100 airplay record, 18 weeks at number one. ...
The Best of Me is a greatest hits album by Canadian singer Bryan Adams. ...
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Rock Steady is a song written by Bryan Adams and Gretchen Peters in 1995. ...
Bonnie Raitt, (born November 8, 1949) is an American Blues-R&B singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt. ...
I Finally Found Someone is a song duet from 1996 with Bryan Adams and Barbra Streisand. ...
Barbara Joan Streisand (pronounced STRY-sand, IPA: ; born April 24, 1942) is a two time Academy Award-winning American singer and film and theatre actress. ...
When Youre Gone was written by Bryan Adams and Eliot Kennedy and featured former Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm. ...
Melanie Jayne Chisholm (born 12 January 1974 in Whiston, Lancashire), also known as Melanie C or Mel C, is an English singer, songwriter, and television personality best known as one of the five members of the English girl group Spice Girls, who was nicknamed Sporty Spice. As a solo artist...
2000s In 2000, Adams provided vocals for "Don't Give Up" by Chicane, alias for English producer Nick Bracegirdle. This song went to #1 in the UK singles chart. See also: 2000 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2000 Record labels established in 2000 // John Tavener is knighted in the New Years Honours List. ...
Dont Give Up is a song by Chicane, alias of English producer Nick Bracegirdle, with vocals recorded by Canadian rock/pop singer Bryan Adams. ...
Chicane is a pseudonym used by English electronic musician and record producer Nick Bracegirdle. ...
In 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 he headlined in 2000 See also: 2001 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2001 Record labels established in 2001 // January 1 Comeback of Guns N Roses in House of Blues Hum disbands. ...
For the computer game Budokan, see Budokan: The Martial Spirit For the style of Karate, see Budokan Karate-do The Nippon Budokan ), often shortened to just Budokan, is an arena in central Tokyo. ...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers at Slane Castle Slane Concert (often referred as just Slane) is a concert held most years since 1981 in Slane Castle in Slane village, County Meath, in the Republic of Ireland. ...
See also: 2000 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2000 Record labels established in 2000 // John Tavener is knighted in the New Years Honours List. ...
In May 2002, he released together with Hans Zimmer the Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron DreamWorks soundtrack, which went gold in the US. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is an animated film released in 2002 by Dreamworks Pictures. ...
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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. See also: 2004 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2004 Record labels established in 2004 2000s in music. ...
Room Service is a rock album by Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams released in 2004. ...
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. See also: 2005 in heavy metal music 2005 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2005 Record labels established in 2005 Albums released in 2005 January 1 - In most of Europe, copyright expired on a number of classic pop and rock-and-roll songs recorded in 1954 and earlier, including...
Bryan Adams 2005 Anthology contains songs he recorded from 1978 through 2005. ...
In July 2005, Bryan Adams was one of the many Canadian acts at the Live 8 concerts at Park Place (formerly Molson Park) in Barrie, Ontario. Official Live8 DVD, released in November 2005 Live 8 was a series of concurrent benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa. ...
Park Place is a park located at Ontario provincial highway 400 (exit 90) off Mapleview Drive (formerly Molson Park Drive) East in the south end of Barrie, Ontario, Canada. ...
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Also in 2005, Adams sang the theme song for the Fox TV series Stacked (starring Pamela Anderson), which ran for a season and a half. Stacked was an American television show originally aired in 2005 on FOX. It was hailed as the opposite of Cheers, instead of a smart person in a dumb place, it is based on the concept of perceived-as-dumb person in a smart place. ...
Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian/American[1] actress, sex symbol, glamour model, producer, TV personality, and author. ...
Adams 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.It also won a Grammy in 2008. Adams's music has either been written for or been used on the soundtrack of 42 movies.[11]. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 120 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Bryan Adams Metadata This file contains...
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The Guardian is a 2006 film starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher that was released on September 29, 2006. ...
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American film actor, director and producer. ...
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Bobby, released in 1973, is a popular film directed by Raj Kapoor. ...
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. ...
Mary Jane Blige (born January 11, 1971) is an American R&B, soul, and hip hop soul singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, record producer, actress, and hip hop icon who has sold more than 40 million records and over 10 million singles worldwide. ...
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Adams released his new album 11 internationally on March 17, 2008. The album will also be released in the U.S. exclusively at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club retail stores on May 13, 2008.[12] The first song released from the album is called "I Thought I'd Seen Everything". Adams also is planning a 11 days in 11 cities tour to promote this album. The album debuted at #1 in Canada (making it his first album to reach that position since 18 Til I Die in 1996), India & Switzerland. #2 in Germany, Austria, Belgium and Denmark, #3 in the Europe and in the World, #4 in Portugal, #6 in Japan and the UK. Many critics consider "11" his best and most successful album since the groundbreaking Waking Up the Neighbours, released in 1991. is the 76th day of the year (77th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ...
18 Til I Die is a rock album by Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams released in 1996 (see 1996 in music). ...
Waking up the Neighbours is a rock album by Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams released in 1991 (see 1991 in music). ...
Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ...
Awards and recognition Adams was awarded the Order of Canada [13] and the Order of British Columbia [14] for his contribution to popular music and his philanthropic work. He was also inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998,[15] and more recently inducted into the Music Hall of Fame at Canada's Juno Awards in April 2006.[16] He has been nominated for three Academy Awards for songwriting,[17] and was recently nominated for his fifth Golden Globe (2007) for his songwriting in the film Bobby.[18] Seal of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means (those) desiring a better country (Hebrews 11. ...
The Order of British Columbia is British Columbias highest award for outstanding achievement. ...
Canadas Walk of Fame acknowledges the achievements and accomplishments of successful Canadians. ...
The Juno Awards are awards of achievement presented to Canadian musical artists and bands. ...
Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...
The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...
Bobby is a Golden Globe Award-nominated drama film written and directed by Emilio Estevez. ...
Personal life Adams is a vegan and currently lives in England. He has also lived in France and speaks French. He supports Chelsea F.C. and the song "We're Gonna Win" from his album 18 Til I Die is dedicated to the football club. The song was used as an opening piece by NBC Sports for the Women's Basketball Gold Medal game at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Later it was used by the Canadian sports network TSN as its theme song for its "Wednesday Night Hockey" NHL broadcasts in the 2003-04 season. Vegan redirects here. ...
For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...
Chelsea Football Club (also known as The Blues or previously The Pensioners) are an English professional football club based in west London. ...
18 Til I Die is a rock album by Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams released in 1996 (see 1996 in music). ...
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Adams built his own recording studio in Vancouver, British Columbia called The Warehouse Studio out of an abandoned warehouse in the Gastown district in downtown Vancouver. This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ...
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In his acceptance speech for his induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the 2006 Juno Awards, he named his long-time guitarist Keith Scott as his best friend. The two have been playing together for over 25 years. The Canadian Music Hall of Fame honors Canadian musicians for their lifetime achievements in music. ...
Keith Douglas Scott (born 20 July 1954) is a Canadian guitar player. ...
Backing band Unlike 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. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Sideman. ...
A backing band or backup band is a band which accompanies an artist at a live performance or on a recording. ...
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 (1980s-1997) while Pat Steward of the Odds played drums in the early 80's, and is heard in the original "Summer of 69". Keith Douglas Scott (born 20 July 1954) is a Canadian guitar player. ...
Michael Timothy Curry (born 10 June 1956) is a American drummer. ...
Gary Breit is a Canadian keyboardist and vocalist most famous for his collaboration with singer/songwriter Bryan Adams. ...
Tommy Mandel (born 2 June 1949, in New York City) is a keyboardist who is most famous for playing with Bryan Adams, from 1981 to 1998, starting with Bryan Adamss album You Want It You Got It. ...
Odds were a Canadian alternative rock band in the 1990s. ...
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Social activist 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. His first high profile charity appearance came in 1985 when he opened the US transmission of Live Aid from Philadelphia. In June of the next year, Adams participated in the two-week Amnesty International "A Conspiracy of Hope" tour alongside Sting, U2 and Peter Gabriel. His next appearance for amnesty was in February 1987 on Rock For Amnesty with Paul McCartney, Sting and Dire Straits, among others. Ethiopia, as its borders were in 1985. ...
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Playing in the U.S. section of Live Aid, Adams did not get the chance to play at Wembley Stadium, however another chance came in June 1987 when Adams played there at the 5th Annual Prince's Trust Rock Gala along Elton John, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and others. Adams was to return to Wembley Stadium the following year when he played at the Nelson Mandela birthday party concert. Wembley Stadium was a football stadium located in Wembley, London. ...
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Adams helped commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall when, in 1990, he joined many other guests (including his songwriting partner Michael Kamen) for Roger Waters' massive performance of The Wall in Berlin, Germany. View in 1986 from the west side of graffiti art on the walls infamous death strip Walls poster in memory of the fall. ...
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On January 29, 2005, Adams joined the CBC benefit concert in Toronto for victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. 20 years after performing at Live Aid in the USA, Adams played at Canada's Live 8 show in Barrie, Ontario. Later that year, he played in Qatar and raised an astonishing £1.5M ($2,617,000) from the performance and the auction of a guitar he purposely had signed by many of the world's most prominent guitarists. The money went to Qatar's "Reach Out to Asia" campaign to help the underprivileged across the continent. Money raised also went to some of his own projects like rebuilding a school in Thailand and building a new sports center in Sri Lanka, both of which had been devastated by the aforementioned Indian Ocean tsunami. is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake,[1] was a great undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC (07:58:53 local time) December 26, 2004 with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. ...
On 2 July 2005, a Live 8 concert was held at Park Place (formerly Molson Park) in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. ...
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake,[1] was a great undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC (07:58:53 local time) December 26, 2004 with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. ...
On January 29, 2006, Adams became the first western artist to perform in Karachi, Pakistan, in conjunction with a benefit concert to raise money for underprivileged children to go to school. Some of the proceeds of that concert also went to victims of the 2005 Pakistan earthquake. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 125 KB) me I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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(Sindhi: , Urdu: ) is the largest city in Pakistan and is the provincial capital of Sindh province. ...
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The Kashmir earthquake (also known as the South Asia earthquake or the Great Pakistan earthquake) of 2005 of which the epicenter was the Pakistan-administered Kashmir. ...
On October 18, 2007, Adams was billed to perform in Tel Aviv and Jericho as part of the OneVoice Movement concerts, aiming to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The peace concert for supporters of a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel was called off because of security concerns. is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Charity records Adams has also been involved in the production of records that have raised money for charity. In 1985, Adams and songwriting partner Jim Vallance along with David Foster co-wrote the Canadian benefit record for Ethiopia called Tears Are Not Enough. In March 1989, Rainbow Warriors, an album supporting Greenpeace and featuring Bryan Adams with other artists, is released in the Soviet Union on the Melodiya label. Adams' 1998 album, On a Day Like Today, supported the Elephant Sanctuary, Hohenwald in Tennessee and Elefriends in England. James Douglas Vallance (born 1952) is a Canadian musician and songwriter who has written for Ozzy Osbourne, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper and Bryan Adams. ...
For other persons named David Foster, see David Foster (disambiguation). ...
For the song by ABC, see Tears Are Not Enough (ABC song). ...
Greenpeace protest against Esso / Exxon Mobil. ...
Melodiya (Russian: ΜелодиÑ) was the state-owned major record company/label of the Soviet Union. ...
On a Day Like Today is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music). ...
The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee, is the nations largest natural-habitat refuge developed specifically to meet the needs of endangered elephants. ...
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The Born Free Foundation originated in 1984 as the Zoo Check Campaign in Great Britain by actors Virginia McKenna her husband Bill Travers along with their son Will Travers and four associates. ...
Campaigns/awareness raising In 1992, Adams became the centre of a dispute on Canadian Content regulations which were changed as a result. Canadian content (abbreviated cancon or can-con) refers to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission requirements that radio and television broadcasters (including cable/satellite specialty channels) must air a certain percentage of content that was at least partly written, produced, presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from Canada. ...
In the mid 1990s, Adams successfully campaigned for the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary with Greenpeace Chairman David McTaggart (the two distributed over 500,000 postcards at concerts around the world encouraging politicians to vote yes for the creation of the sanctuary). The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is a protected area of 50 million square km. ...
Greenpeace protest against Esso / Exxon Mobil. ...
David McTaggart being interviewed on CNN David Fraser McTaggart (June 24, 1932 - March 23, 2001) was an Canadian-born environmentalist who played a central part in the foundation of Greenpeace International. ...
After a performance in Amman, Jordan Adams pleased his Arab fans when they heard (during an interview with a local TV channel) that he was not a supporter of the U.S. invasion of Iraq[citation needed]. Location of Amman Amman (Arabic عمان ʿAmmān), the capital of the Kingdom of Jordan, is a city of more than 1. ...
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Adams wrote a letter on behalf of the animal rights group PETA to protest KFC's treatment of chickens. He wrote to KFC Canadian CEO in November 2007 [19] asking them become leaders to use more modern and more humane methods of killing. Apparently he was also featured as a nominee for Sexiest Vegetarians of the Year. A man holds a monkey with a limb missing by a rope around her neck, a scene epitomizing the idea of animal ownership. ...
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Other charity work On May 25, 2005, Adams raised £1.3M with cousin Johnny Armitage, from a concert and auction entitled Rock by the River for the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. On May 15 of the next year, Adams returned to London to attend the Hope Foundation's event (hosted by designer Bella Freud), helping to raise a portion of the £250,000 to support the Palestinian refugee children. On the same day, he was made an ambassador to the Prince's Trust, an honorary appointment made by Prince Charles' charity in London to raise awareness for young people looking for work. The following June, he offered individuals from the public the chance to bid to sing with him live in concert at three different charity auctions in London. Over £50,000 was raised with money going to the NSPCC, Children in Need, and the University College Hospital. On February 28, 2008 he appeared in One Night Live at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada with Josh Groban, Sarah McLachlan, Jann Arden and Ryan Dan in aid of the Sunnybrook Hospital Women and Babies Program. is the 145th day of the year (146th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Royal Marsden Hospital is a specialist cancer treatment hospital in London, England. ...
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Joshua Winslow Groban (born February 27, 1981) is a Grammy-nominated American singer/songwriter known for his mature and lyrical baritone voice. ...
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As a photographer
 Adams accepting a LeadAward for photography in 2006. Adams has had his photographs published in British Vogue, L'uomo Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, Interview magazine 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, and another one in 2000 called Haven. All of his books have been dedicated to his friend Donna, who died of breast cancer. Image File history File linksMetadata LeadAward2006c. ...
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