“That’s one of the key things that most people don’t get when they hear the song. But when I sang it with her, we nailed it”: Bryan Adams explains why the only person to do justice to Summer of '69 was Taylor Swift

TORONTO, ON - AUGUST 04: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO STANDALONE PUBLICATION USE (NO SPECIAL INTEREST OR SINGLE ARTIST PUBLICATION USE; NO BOOK USE)) Taylor Swift, Swift and Bryan Adams rehearse onstage during the Taylor Swift reputation Stadium Tour at Rogers Centre on August 4, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Jason Kempin/TAS18/Getty Images for TAS).

Bryan Adams has duetted with some big stars during his career - the likes of Tina Turner, Sting, Rod Stewart and Spice Girl Mel C - but history will confirm that, in 2018, the Groover from Vancouver shared the stage with someone who’s arguably surpassed all of them on her way to becoming a cultural icon.

We’re talking, of course, about Taylor Swift, who prefaced Adams’ arrival in Toronto on 4 August by telling the crowd that she was about to sing “just one of my favourite songs ever written.”