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"There is a huge misconception that this song is about 1969, but it's not": The surprisingly sexual story of the Bryan Adams song fans thought was about innocence and friendship

It turns out Bryan Adams’ hit single Summer Of '69 wasn’t all about childhood, longing and loss

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"It's too indebted to US FM rock to find its own feet and the production is so polite it takes any edge off": Jimmy Barnes strives for solo success on For The Working Class Man

Freed from Cold Chisel, Australian national treasure Jimmy Barnes called in the big guns for his attempted US breakthrough

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"If I didn't have singing I probably would have murdered somebody": Two of rock's great concert films are now free to watch on YouTube

Two acclaimed movies have been made available online thanks to Joe Cocker's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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Outkast, Cyndi Lauper, Soundgarden and The White Stripes were among the acts whose careers were celebrated

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"Like a double bill of April Wine and Lynyrd Skynyrd": The Sheepdogs conjure up breezy classic rock vibes on Nobody But You single

Nobody But You is the first single from The Sheepdogs since the departure of founding drummer Sam Corbett

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“Mutt Lange would always make me play rhythm. He liked my feel. I’m technically not very good, but I have a feel that’s intuitive to me”: Bryan Adams says he’s no guitar hero, but believes he’s written songs that cover versions can’t beat

The Canadian songwriter extraordinaire on what he learned from Mutt Lange, how he got his long-sold Les Paul back, why he dug his Rockman out of the basement, duetting with Taylor Swift and the single piece of technical advice he has to offer

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“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

Adams had a 1980s Gibson Les Paul during his career-defining Reckless era, which he managed to reunite with decades later

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“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

“We only had one rehearsal, so she knows that song really well,” he says of their 2018 duet

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“The only person who did a version of Summer of ’69 and did it justice was Taylor Swift”: Bryan Adams looks back on the time he crossed Fenders with the world’s biggest popstar on one of his most iconic hits

Adams recalls the time he joined Swift on stage to perform one of his most well-loved songs

Guitar World

Bryan Adams announces UK leg of Roll With The Punches tour

This news arrives as Bryan Adams embarks on a lengthy run of North American shows, with support from Pat Benatar, The Sheepdogs and more

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Ronan Keating brings out Bryan Adams during Radio 2 in the Park set

Keating, who began his career in the boyband Boyzone in 1993, took the main stage at the Chelmsford music festival on Saturday afternoon.

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"Now in his mid-60s, there's still something oddly teenage about Bryan Adams": Soft rock's Mr Nice Guy returns to familiar ground

Bryan Adams defiantly sticks to his guns on Roll With The Punches

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“They had the arrangement and I went, ‘Oh, this is finally my David Gilmour moment.’ The hair on my arms stood up”: Keith Scott on the making of Bryan Adams’ (Everything I Do) I Do It For You – the record-breaking hit no one saw coming

Scott remembers how a “plaintive melody” from Michael Kamen intrigued Mutt Lange and was shaped into Bryan Adams' biggest, hit, giving Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves the anthem it needed

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“I remember the phone call. He said, ‘Jim, I just wrote this thing. It was for Blue Öyster Cult. But I don't think they're going to keep it…’” The Bryan Adams track that started life as a Blue Öyster Cult song

The guitarist had begged his bandmate not to give the song away, and got his wish in a roundabout way

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Bryan Adams thinks his remarkable UK Singles Chart record will be surpassed

Bryan Adams believes that his record-breaking 16-week run at the top of the UK Singles Chart wth (Everything I Do) I Do It For You will eventually be broken.

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Summer of 69 review – charming, if overfamiliar, teen sex comedy

Awkward teenager strikes deal with stripper played by SNL’s Chloe Fineman in moderately entertaining throwback

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Bryan Adams announces mammoth North American tour schedule with Pat Benatar and The Sheepdogs

Bryan Adams' Roll With The Punches tour will reach North America in September after a lengthy European run

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Brace yourself: Bryan Adams didn’t buy his first real six-string in a five and dime

Now the truth is out. And you'll never guess which year he didn't buy it…

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Bryan Adams admits he got his first real six-string guitar years after the summer of ’69

Opening up about how his breakout hit is far from autobiographical, rocker Bryan Adams has admitted he got his first real six-string guitar years after the summer of ’69 – and it wasn't from a cheap store.

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Bryan Adams reveals the surprising origin behind his ‘first real six-string’

The Canadian rock legend opens up about music, lockdown, and lost instruments in the Help Musicians’ podcast series

Guitar World

“Maybe we could buy a 12-string and have it sawed in two”: Kevin Bacon and Jimmy Fallon rewrite Bryan Adams’ Summer of ’69 – and make it all about six-strings

There’s no room for Jimmy to quit, or for Jody to get married, in this version

Guitar World

“We often overlook this humble technique, yet it’s such an important tool for expressive rhythm and lead playing”: Palm muting is an essential guitar technique – but there’s a lot more to it than just chugging. Are you using it to its full potential?

First used by ’50s legends Chet Atkins and Les Paul, it is rock, metal and punk that have made palm muting so popular today

International Business Times

Global Stars Eye India, But Show Needs Fine-tuning

With Coldplay and Ed Sheeran among the superstars who have played to packed-out crowds in India recently, there is increasing talk that the world's most populous nation could soon become a mainstay of the global touring schedule.

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Stink to high Heaven: Bryan Adams concert axed due to blocked sewer

Bryan Adams was forced to send 16,000 fans home after his Perth concert was cancelled due to a stinky sewage blockage.

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Bryan Adams' gig in Australia cancelled due to sewer fatberg of ‘grease and rags’

Authorities raised concerns that the sewage may back up the venue’s toilets

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