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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
As told to Dave Simpson

Bryan Adams: ‘You can’t possibly follow up a hit that big’

All six strings attached … Bryan Adams.
All six strings attached … Bryan Adams. Photograph: Bryan Adams

When Wet Wet Wet had been at No 1 for ages with Love Is All Around they eventually got the record company to withdraw it from stores because they were so fed up with it. Did you ever come close to that with (Everything I Do) I Do It for You when it was the UK No 1 for a record 16 weeks? keithinfife

I do remember my record company wanting to withdraw it and focus on the album and I told them they’d be mad to. If they had, we’d never have got the record. I wrote the song with my dear friend Michael Kamen – rest in peace – and [producer] Mutt Lange. When it was used in the film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves I went to see it with my girlfriend and it played over the end credits as everyone was leaving the theatre. I said: “Well, they can’t have liked it very much if they stuck it at the end,” but maybe it stayed in people’s heads.

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