There’s a secret strength to never having been cool. And, bless his heart, even at the absolute peak of his rock’n’roll powers in the 80s and early 90s, Bryan Adams was never cool. Even when he trapped the whole of the UK in a weird Stockholm syndrome situation at the top of the singles chart with (Everything I Do) I Do It For You for what felt like the length of a Game Of Thrones winter, it wasn’t because he was cool.
There was always something too wholesome about him for that. He was very much the auntie’s favourite. None of this is really much of a criticism, because Bryan Adams knows exactly who he is, and it’s given him a longevity that some of his edgier peers, with the benefit of hindsight, would kill for
