more brave than me
more blond than you
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June 29, 1985: Bryan Adams entered Billboard's Hot 100 at Number 55 with "Summer of '69."
Bryan Adams wrote this with the songwriter Jim Vallance, who wrote several Aerosmith songs and often collaborated with Adams. On his website, Vallance explains that the track underwent several changes.
August 10, 1998: Simply Red released a cover of the Hollies' "The Air That I Breathe." On the Eurochart Hot 100, it reached number 35.
February 23, 1999: Channel 4 in the UK released the groundbreaking TV series, Queer as Folk.
Queer as Folk is one of those rare flickers of brilliance.
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| Channel 4 TV series Queer as Folk |
"I Can't Make You Love Me" was recorded by Bonnie Raitt for her 1991 album, Luck of the Draw.
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| Bonnie Raitt |
"Please Forgive Me" was written by Adams and producer Robert Lange. The song has an instrumental intro, which is only found on the album version of the song.
"You Belong to the City" by Glenn Frey was written specifically for the television show Miami Vice's episode "Prodigal Son."
June 4, 1983: "Straight From the Heart" by Bryan Adams tops out at Number 10.
"Straight from the Heart" was the lead single from Bryan Adams' third studio album, Cuts Like a Knife.
May 16, 1966: The Beach Boys released their landmark album Pet Sounds. Standout tracks included "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and "God Only Knows."
Brian Wilson’s songwriting in the early days of The Beach Boys inevitably included cars, surfing, and always the pursuit of girls, California or otherwise. The combination of those lyrics with the band unique rhythm made for perfect pieces of great American candy-pop for us all to rot our teeth with.
Pet Sounds photoshoot
November 5, 1959: Bryan Adams is born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Adams has garnered many awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations and 15 Grammy Award nominations.
Bryan Adams
“Live and Let Die” is the main theme song of the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die, written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Paul’s band Wings.
There are songs that are better, there are songs that are worse, there are songs that’ll become your favorites and others you’ll probably lift the needle for when their time is due. But in the end, Exile on Main Street spends its four sides shading the same song in as many variations as there are Rolling Stone ready-mades to fill them.
“Light My Fire” begins, like Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” with a single snare-drum shot.
