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ADAMS Bryan
(voc,g)

Personal Data:

Born:

05.11.1959

(Kingston, Ontario, Canada, as Bryan Guy Adams)

Line-Up (2017):

Bryan Adams - voc,g
Keith Scott - g
Norm Fisher - bg
Gary Breit - kb
Micky Curry - ds

Former Members:

Brian Stanley (bg, 1981-82); Dave Taylor (bg, 1982-?)
Tommy Mandel (kb, 1981-?); Johnny Blitz (kb)
Jim Vallance (ds, 1979-81)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Bryan Adams produced by: Bob Clearmountain	3/1981	A&M
2.	You Want It, You Got It produced by: Bob Clearmountain	4/1982	A&M		78
3.	Cuts Like A Knife produced by: Bob Clearmountain	4/1983	A&M		21	8
4.	Reckless produced by: Bryan Adams/Bob Clearmountain	11/1984	A&M		7	1
5.	Wreckless	1985	A&M
6.	Into The Fire produced by: Bob Clearmountain	5/1987	A&M		10	7
7.	Live Live Live (in Japan, in the UK 7/94)	1989	A&M		17
8.	Waking Up The Neighbours	23.09.1991	A&M		1	6
9.	Sweeny Todd: Early Recordings	15.11.1991
10.	Bryan Adams	1992	Merlin
11.	So Far, So Good	08.11.1993	A&M		2	6
12.	Live! Live! Live!	7/1994			17
13.	So Far So Live	01.08.1994
14.	18 'Til I Die	27.05.1996	A&M		1	31
15.	Give Me Your Love	12.07.1996
16.	MTV Unplugged	02.12.1997	A&M		18	88
17.	On A Day Like Today	19.10.1998	A&M		11	103
18.	Greatest Hits	14.09.1999
19.	The Best Of Me	25.09.1999	Mercury		12
20.	Gold	08.01.2002
21.	Spirit - Stallion Of The Cimarron	7/2002	A&M		8
22.	Live at the Budokan	17.06.2003	A&M
23.	Bryan Adams	09.08.2004	Universal International
24.	Early Years	24.08.2004	United States Dist
25.	Room Service	20.09.2004	Polydor		4
26.	Chronicles	21.06.2005	A&M
27.	Anthology	18.10.2005	A&M		29	65
28.	11	17.03.2008	Badman/Polydor		6	80
29.	At the Movies	02.03.2010	Universal
30.	Icon	31.08.2010	A&M
31.	Bare Bones	01.11.2010	Polydor		35
32.	5 Classic Albums	05.11.2013	A&M
33.	The Bare Bones Tour: Live At The Sydney Opera House	27.11.2013	Polydor
34.	Tracks Of My Years	30.09.2014	Verve		11	89
35.	Get Up! produced by: Jeff Lynne	30.10.2015	Polydor		2	99
36.	Live at the Palladium, L.A. 1985	12.02.2016	Zip City
37.	Interview 19 5 96	06.05.2016	Music Video Distribution
38.	Wembley Live 1996	21.10.2016	Eagle Rock
39.	Ultimate	11/2017	Polydor		11
40.	Shine A Light	01.03.2019	Polydor		2
41.	So Happy It Hurts	3/2022	BMG		3
42.	Classic	1/2023	BMG Rights
43.	Live At The Royal Albert Hall	12/2023	BMG Rights

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Let Me Take You Dancing / Don't Turn Me Away	7/1979	A&M
2.	Hidin' From Love / Wait And See	4/1980	A&M
3.	Give Me Your Love / Wait And See (v USA)	4/1981	A&M
4.	Lonely Nights / Don't Look Now	3/1982	A&M		84
5.	Coming Home / Fits Ya Good (v USA)	1982	A&M
6.	Cuts Like The Knife / One Good Reason (v USA)	2/1983	A&M
7.	Straight From The Heart / One Good Reason	3/1983	A&M		10
8.	Straight From The Heart / Lonely Nights	4/1983	A&M
9.	Cuts Like A Knife / Lonely Nights	6/1983	A&M		15
10.	Cuts Like A Knife / Fits Ya Good 12" + Hidin' From Love	7/1983	A&M
11.	This Time / Fits Ya Good	8/1983	A&M		24
12.	The Best Has Yet To Come / I'm Ready (v USA)	11/1983	A&M
13.	Run To You / I'm Ready 7" + Lonely Nights 12" + Cuts Like A Knife	10/1984	A&M	11	6
14.	Somebody / Long Gone	1/1985	A&M	35	11
15.	Heaven / Diana 7" Straight From The Heart / You Want It, You Got It 12" + Fits Ya Good	4/1985	A&M	38	1
16.	Summer Of '69 / The Best Has Yet To Come	6/1985	A&M		5
17.	Summer Of '69 / Kids Wanna Rock (live)	7/1985	A&M	42
18.	One Night Love Affair	9/1985	A&M		13
19.	It's Only Love / The Best Has Yet To Come 7" Somebody / Long Gone & Tina Turner	10/1985	A&M	29
20.	It's Only Love / The Only One & Tina Turner	11/1985	A&M		15
21.	Christmas Time / Reggae Christmas	12/1985	A&M	55
22.	This Time / I'm Ready 12" + Lonely Nights	2/1986	A&M	41
23.	Straight From The Heart / Fits Ya Good	7/1986	A&M	51
24.	Heat Of The Night / Another Day	3/1987	A&M	34	6
25.	Hearts On Fire / The Best Has Yet To Come	5/1987	A&M		26
26.	Hearts On Fire / Run To You 12" + Native Sun	5/1987	A&M	57
27.	Victim Of Love / Into The Fire	8/1987	A&M		32
28.	Victim Of Love / Heat Of The Night (live)	10/1987	A&M	68
29.	Cuts Like A Knife / Reckless	6/1989	A&M
30.	(Everything I Do) I Do It For You / She's Only Happy When She's Dancing (live) 12",CD + Cuts Like A Knife	6/1991	A&M	1	1
31.	Run To You	18.07.1991
32.	Can't Stop This Thing We Started / It's Only Love 12",CD + Hearts On Fire	8/1991	A&M	12	2
33.	There Will Never Be Another Tonight / Into The Fire 12",CD + One Night Love Affair (live)	10.11.1991	A&M	32	31
34.	I Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven / Somebody 12" + Everything I Do (I Do It For You) CD + Heart Of The Night (live)	25.01.1992	A&M	7	13
35.	All I Want Is You / Run To You 12",CD + Long Gone	7/1992	A&M	19
36.	Do I Have To Say The Words? / Summer Of '69 12",CD + Kids Wanna Rock / Can't Stop This Thing We Started (v GB 9/92)	28.07.1992	A&M	18	11
37.	Please Forgive Me / C'mon Everybody CD + Can't Stop This Thing We Started / There Will Never Be Another Tonight	18.10.1993	A&M	2	7
38.	All For Love CD + Straight From The Heart / If Only / Love Is Stronger Than Justice & Rod Stewart & Sting	16.11.1993	A&M	2	1
39.	Run To You (live)	21.03.1994
40.	Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman? / Low Life	10.04.1995	A&M	3	1
41.	Rock Steady / Come To Me / Feeling Of Falling (all live) CD + Thing Called Love (live) & Bonnie Raitt	30.10.1995	Capitol	50	73
42.	Cuts Like A Knife	05.03.1996
43.	The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You	13.05.1996	A&M	6	52
44.	Let's Make A Night To Remember	19.07.1996	A&M	10	24
45.	I Finally Found Someone & Barbra Streisand	12.11.1996	A&M	10	6
46.	Star	18.11.1996	A&M	13
47.	18 Til I Die	21.04.1997	A&M	22
48.	Back To You	12/1997	A&M	18
49.	I'm Ready	3/1998	A&M	20
50.	On A Day Like Today	21.09.1998	A&M	13
51.	When You're Gone / I Love Ya Too & Mel C	30.11.1998	Polydor	3
52.	Cloud Number 9	03.05.1999	Mercury	6
53.	Best Of Me	14.12.1999		47
54.	Don't Give Up & Chicane	06.03.2000	Xtravaganza	1
55.	Inside Out	26.06.2000	A&M
56.	Io Vivo	18.09.2001
57.	New York, New York	01.01.2002
58.	Here I Am	20.08.2002	A&M	5
59.	Don't Give Up 2004 & Chicane	02.02.2004	Xtravaganza
60.	Open Road	9/2004		21
61.	Now That You're Gone / If I'm A Stranger	11/2004
62.	Flying	11/2004		39
63.	Room Service	12.07.2005
64.	Run To You & Pascal	18.07.2005	All Around The World
65.	I Thought I'd Seen Everything	3/2008
66.	Summer Of '69	8/2008		88
67.	Don't Give Up & Chicane	7/2009	Xtravaganza
68.	One World, One Flame	2/2010
69.	Christmas Time	12/2010
70.	Merry Christmas	05.12.2011
71.	Tonight In Babylon & Loverush! UK	05.03.2012
72.	Summer Of '69	7/2012	A&M	47
73.	Shine A Light	1/2019	Polydor
74.	So Happy It Hurts	3/2022
75.	Summer Of 69	8/2023	A&M	95
76.	War Machine / Rock And Roll Hell	02.08.2024	Bad

Videos:

1. The Reckless Videos - 1984, A&M
2. Waking Up The Neighbours - 12/1992
3. So Far So Good - 1/1994
4. Unplugged - 10/1998, Polygram, 57 min
5. Intimate Evening With Anne Murray - 27.4.1999, DVD, & Celine Dion & Anne Murray
6. Live At Slane Castle - 2/2002, Island, live
7. Live At The Budokan - 6/2003, Universal Music, live
8. Live In Lisbon - 28.11.2005, Universal, live
9. The Bare Bones Tour: Live At The Sydney Opera House - 27.11.2013, Polydor, live

Movies:

Pink Cadillac

Awards:

1991 Grammy Awards - Best Song Written Specifically For A Motion Picture Or For Television (SP "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You")
1994 MTV European Music Awards - Best Male ("Please Forgive Me")
1995 Kerrang! Awards - Best Composer
2000 Juno Awards - Best Male Artist
2020 Juno Awards - Adult Contemporary Album Of The Year ("Shine A Light")

Various:

1985 appeared at gigu Live Aid (Philadelphia)
1988 appeared at Tribute to Nelson Mandela (London, Wembley)
21.7.1990 appeared at gigu Roger Waters: The Wall (Berlin)
2.7.2005 appeared at Live 8 (Toronto, Kanada)
2024 own label Bad Records

appeared on the LP:

Glass Tiger: The Thin Red Line (1986, EMI)
Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (1986, Capitol)
Andy Taylor: Thunder (1986, WEA)
Mötley Crüe: Dr. Feelgood (1989, Elektra/WEA)
Cindy Bullens: Cindy Bullens (1989, MCA)
Joe Cocker: One Night Of Sin (1989, Island)
Roger Waters: The Wall (Live In Berlin) (9/90, EMI)
David Foster: River Of Love (1990, Atlantic)
Stevie Vann: Stevie Vann (18.9.95)
Tina Turner: Twenty Four Seven (1.11.99)
Elton John: One Night Only (13.11.00, Mercury)
Barbra Streisand: Duets (26.11.02, Columbia)
Twiggy: Romantically Yours (21.11.11)
Robbie Williams: The Christmas Present (11/19, Columbia)

produced by LP:

Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (9/86, Capitol)
Carly Simon: Coming Around Again (1987, Arista)
Dion: Yo Frankie! (1989, Arista)
Helen Hoffner: Wild About Nothing (1993, Atlantic)
The Three Musketeers OST (1993, Hollywood)

Compilation Appearances:

"All For Love" on OST "The Three Musketeers" (1993, Hollywood, & Rod Stewart & Sting)
"Don't Give Up" on compilation "Platinum Hits 2000" (5.9.00, Columbia)
"Run To You" on benefit CD "Farm Aid: Volume One" (12.9.00, Columbia)
"Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" on live Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee LP "Party At The Palace" (24.6.02, EMI)

Dave Taylor:

appeared on the LP:

Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (1986, Capitol)
Carly Simon: Coming Around Again (1987, Arista)
Dion: Yo Frankie! (1989, Arista)

Micky Curry:

appeared on the LP:

Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (1986, Capitol)
Elvis Costello: King Of America (2/86, WEA)
Richard Thompson: Daring Adventures (10/86, Polydor)
Carly Simon: Coming Around Again (1987, Arista)
Dion: Yo Frankie! (1989, Arista)
Paul Laine: Stick It In Your Ear (1990, WEA)
Mitch Malloy: Mitch Malloy (1992, RCA)
Mitch Malloy: Shine (25.6.01, Frontiers)

Jim Vallance:

appeared on the LP:

Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (1986, Capitol)
38 Special: Strenght In Numbers (1986, A&M)

Keith Scott:

appeared on the LP:

Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (1986, Capitol)
Carly Simon: Coming Around Again (1987, Arista)
Dion: Yo Frankie! (1989, Arista)

Press References:

Big Beng!
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1996	10	11.07.1996	25	Forum kritikum	album review
1998	8	26.02.1998	25	Forum kritikum	album review
1998	45	17.12.1998	25	Forum kritikum	album review
1999	24	24.06.1999	13	Live - E.T. Jam '99	gig review
2002	10	23.05.2002	10	Infokus
Melodie
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1992	2		8		profile
1992	8		31	Recenze	album review
1993	2		33	Recenze	album review
Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1982	18	01.05.1982	20	Albums	album review
1983	16	16.04.1983	25	Albums	album review
1992	5	01.02.1992	15	Live	gig review
1994	1	01.08.1994	27	Singles	single review
1995	44	04.11.1995	34	Singles	single review
1996	31	03.08.1996	53	Singles	single review
1997	29	19.07.1997	36	Live	gig review
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1991	25	20.12.1991	12		profile
1992	12	15.06.1992	28	Recenze	album review
1993	8	29.04.1993	28	Recenze	album review
1996	1		89	Recenze	album review
1996	9		89	Recenze - Novinky	album review
1996	11		58		interview
1997	9		14	Pelmel
1998	3		74		interview
1998	3		100	Recenze	album review
1998	12		112	Recenze - Atd.	album review
1999	1		121	Recenze - Videokazety
1999	7		93	Live - E.T. Jam	gig review
2000	1		99	Recenze - Novinky	album review
2003	4		23	Pel Mel	profile
2003	5		35
2003	5		56	Live	gig review
2004	10		70	Recenze	album review
2006	12		84	Live	gig review
2008	5		57	Record	album review
Rolling Stone
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1999	9		116