 At the age of seventeen, Bryan Adams sent a
few demo recordings to A&M Records and was signed to them by age
18 for one dollar. Bryan Adams has written and released fourteen
albums since then.
Some of the first demos written in 1978 have
surfaced over the years; most notably is "I'm Ready" (recorded
for both the Cuts Like a Knife LP and later on the MTV
Unplugged album) and "Remember", which went on his first
album. Both songs were covered by other artists before his first
album was even released.
This time was also 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),
contained the FM 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, most notably with the title track. He
quickly followed up that album with Reckless at the end
of 1984, which produced six Top 40 songs and has since been
certified five times platinum in the US. Next came Into the
Fire in 1987, which was also certified platinum. This was
the last album completely written by Bryan 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 the 3 July 1988 concert in Werchter, Belgium, which
was broadcast by the CBC 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), which was produced by Robert
John "Mutt" Lange and Bryan Adams, and featured the single
"Everything I Do (I Do It for You)". 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 the charts in the United Kingdom. The next album was the
hits collection So Far So Good lead by the single "Please
forgive Me", a slow rock ballad.
The next four years saw Bryan Adams releasing
an album every year for four years, with 18 til I Die
summer 1996, Bryan Adams MTV Unplugged winter 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 May 2002 he
released the Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron DreamWorks
soundtrack, which went gold in the U.S.
Room Service was released on 20
September 2004, in Canada and in Europe; "Open Road" was its
first single. The album was released in the U.S. on 10 May 2005,
on Mercury Nashville. Anthology is a two disc set,
released in 2005 as a retrospective collection of hits and some
more obscure tracks from the 25 years of recording.
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