There’s one drawback to writing a globally successful pop/rock anthem – no matter how long ago you released the song, TV presenters and journalists will still be asking you about it decades later. Such was the case with Bryan Adams, whose soaring anthem Summer Of ‘69 was seemingly everywhere in the mid-1980s.
In an interview on the Australian TV talk show Today Extra on the morning of 24 March, 2022, hosts David Campbell and Belinda Russell were interviewing Adams about his new album, Happy It Hurts, when Russell shifted the conversation on to Adams’ monster mid-80s hit.
