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Andy Price

“Everybody knows the song, but it’s not like one of the Beatles songs that gets played all the time – It was a little more off the radar”: Bryan Adams on the key songs that defined his youth

Bryan Adams.

Those unmistakable raspy vocals of Bryan Adams have realised some of the world’s most cherished rock classics.

Summer of ’69, Heaven and that sublime ’91 epic, (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (this writer’s first single purchase) might be the songs that most people think of when they hear the name of Canada’s favourite son. For Bryan himself though, he's open about the influences that dominated his formative years, and how they shaped the way he wrote such peerless songs.

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