Nearly four years after the turn of the year, Canadian singer "Rock 'n' Roll Old Gun" Bryan Adams released his fourteenth solo studio album, Shine A Light, on March 1. At nearly 60, he stopped experimenting with experimental music to attract new fans, and all he wanted was to use his classic husky voice to tell his lifelong companions, "Talk to me."
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Experience: Won the Grammys with the theme song of "Robin Hood of Rogue"
Born in 1959 in Ontario, Canada, Brian Adams, one of the most popular rock singers on the rise in the 1980s, traveled around the world as a child to his parents working diplomatically, including England, Israel, France, Portugal and Austria.
Since 1980, when Brian Adams released his self-titled debut album Bryan Adams, he has made it to the Canadian music charts and entered the U.S. market with works such as "You Want It, You Got It" and "Cuts Like a Knife". Waking Up The Neighbours is arguably the pinnacle of Adams' musical career, released in September 1991 as an album featuring his theme song "Everything I Do It For You" for the film Robin Hood, which not only won a Grammy Award in 1992, but also created a 16-consecutive week number one on the UK single charts and 17 consecutive weeks of US single sales. Miraculously, it sold 3 million, becoming the second most successful single in U.S. history at the time (after "We Are The World").
Waking Up The Neighbours album cover
During his singing career, Adams not only created many classic rock tracks with his iconic husky voice, but also performed folk minor keys such as Please Forgive Me. At the same time, in addition to "Robin Hood the Thief", he has also sung the theme song for the movie "Born love maniac", "Double-sided Mirror", "Pony King", and has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Music five times.
◇ Interesting facts
Vegetarian
Brian Adams has been a vegetarian for more than 29 years, and starting in 1989, he stopped eating meat and dairy products. In a 2016 interview with the magazine, he recounted his experience with a plant-based diet: "It's the best gift I can give myself. I'm going to be 57 this year, I work hard and I'm always on the go, but I'm energetic because I'm vegetative. It's definitely the best thing you can do for yourself, it's a great path. ”
Never married in his life
Adams never married. In the 1990s, he socialized with Danish model Cecily Thomson. In April 2011, Adams and his former assistant, Alicia Grimaldi, had their first daughter and a second in February 2013. Once, speaking about his fan club, Adams laughed and said that neither of his two young daughters could enjoy his music, "unless there was a playful way to get their attention, such as replacing some of the lyrics with 'cane'." ”
Album: I want to commemorate my father in a positive way
In an interview with Toronto City News, Adams said that in between writing music for the Broadway musical Pretty Woman, he came up with the idea of writing the "Shine A Light" album. "I've been working in New York for a few years. When both of my parents were in the hospital last summer, I was worried about losing both of them. Eventually, I lost my father, and I thought for a while about how I could commemorate him in a positive way, and I came up with the concept of 'Shine A Light'.
New album cover
◇ Song decoding
01.《Shine A Light》
The self-titled theme song for the album was directed by Brian Thompson. Adams co-wrote with "Yellow Boss" Ed Sheeran, and the song was also the first single released from the new album. "Ed and I met at one of his shows in Dublin and we've been in touch ever since," Adams said of working with Ed Sheeran, "and one day I sent him an email saying I had an idea for a song called Shine A Light and asked if he was interested in working together. A few days later, I received passages from several songs he had written. ”
After the album's release, Ed Sheeran posted a 45-second video on social networking sites about the chorus of Shine A Light, which he sang himself, and recommended: "I wrote the song with my partner Brian Adams, so I thought I could record a short segment as well." It's a great album that everyone can hear on all music platforms. ”
02.《That's How Strong Our Love Is》
Adams has said he's excited to release this studio album of 12 songs that blend rock, pop and R&B styles. In addition to the collaboration with Ed Sheeran, Adams' chorus song "That's How Strong Our Love Is" with American pop singer Jennifer Lopez also surprised fans, "Working with Jennifer is a dream," Adams said, "Our sound together sounds great." ”
12.《Whiskey In The Jar》
Referring to the album's final song, "Whiskey In The Jar," Brian Adams said he used the song to tell a childhood story, intentionally using a cigarette throat to show that he was old and looked back fondly. Adams also ended his performance with a very personal song, "Summer of 69," on his Indian tour last October, in which he looked back on his story with his elderly parents, and in "Whiskey In The Jar," his nostalgia and humility remained.
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