“This guy comes up and I’m thinking, ‘He wants me to sign his guitar.’ He said, ‘I bought your Les Paul years ago. Would you like to buy it back?’” Bryan Adams sold his Summer of ’69 guitar in the ’80s – but it found its way back to him

Bryan Adams performs live on stage as support act for Tina Turner, at Ahoy', Rotterdam, Netherlands, 8th April 1985.

There are some guitars that just hit different. For Bryan Adams, his two main guitars from the career-making Reckless era – the one that spawned Billboard Top 20 hits like Run to You, Somebody, Heaven, and, of course, Summer of ’69 – still hold a special place in his heart.

“I have a 1960 [Fender] Stratocaster, which was the guitar – well, pretty much. There were two guitars on Reckless,” he explains in a new Guitar World interview. “One was that Stratocaster, and then, I have a 1980s [Gibson] Les Paul that’s stock off the shelf.