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1. Adams was born in Kingston, Ont. but lived in Europe and Asia during various parts of his childhood because his father was a Canadian Foreign Service diplomat.
2- Did you know that Bryan Adams once wanted to get into acting? He even acted in a film with Clint Eastwood. Back in 1989, Adams had a role in “Pink Cadillac” where he played a gas station attendant. Very glamorous, right? Adams also had a role in the 2002 film “House of Fools.”
3. Bryan Adams’ fourth album “Reckless” was a Canadian sales juggernaut. It was actually the very first album by a Canadian artist to sell a million copies in Canada. It was also huge internationally, selling five million copies in the U.S. alone.
4- Bryan Adams was once a glam rocker in his mid-teens. Before he launched his solo career, Adams played in Vancouver glam rock band Sweeney Todd. (Yes, like the demon barber.) Adams sang in the band for a short time in the mid ‘70s, joining at age 16 to replace the band’s lead singer Nick Gilder.
5. Bryan Adams actually quit school when he was just 16 years old to pursue music and convinced his mom to let him spend his college savings on a grand piano instead.
6- He Holds Dual Canadian And British Citizenship
He may be primarily known as a Canadian, but Adams has called London home since the early ’90s. And based on his parents’ British heritage, he has held both Canadian and British passports since at least the ’80s. But the Great White North shouldn’t fret—Adams has kept his ties to Vancouver intact. That was the city where he started writing music and getting studio time as a teen, and in the ’90s, he bought and refurbished the oldest brick building in Vancouver, which is now his Warehouse Studio. He proudly performed a song he co-wroteduring the 2010 Opening Ceremonies for the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver—a true status symbol for any country’s top talent.
7. Adams rose to fame in North America with his album Cuts Like a Knife and turned into a global star with his 1984 album Reckless.
8 For his contributions to music, Adams has garnered many awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations, 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television in 1992.
9. He has also won MTV, ASCAP, American Music awards, two Ivor Novello Awards for song composition and has been nominated five times for Golden Globe Awards and three times for Academy Awards for his songwriting for films.
10- In addition to music, Adams is also a successful photographer. His work has been published in British Vogue, L’uomo Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Interview magazine and i-D . He also has shot big money ad campaigns for Guess Jeans, Sand, Converse, Montblanc, John Richmond, Fred Perry, and more recently for Escada.
11- Bryan Adams refused to let his music be featured in the 1986 Tom Cruise movie “Top Gun.” The filmmakers wanted to use Adams’ “Only The Strong Survive” but he said no because he thought the fighter jet film glorified war.
12- It’s been long speculated that during the part of his youth spent in B.C.’s lower mainland, Bryan Adams attended the same high school as fellow Canadian star Michael J. Fox. Regardless, the two have become friends over the years and Adams even photographed Fox back in 2011 in a funny shoot for optical manufacturers Carl Zeiss AG’s yearly calendar.
13- Adams was originally going to call his second album “Bryan Adams Hasn’t Heard of You Either” in 1981 because of the critical indifference he received for his first. His record label wasn’t thrilled about his sense of humour and convinced him to change it. He went with “You Want It You Got It” instead, and established his sound on that record.
14- Adams released a book of his photography last November called “Wounded: The Legacy of War.” In his photos, Adams captured portraits of young British soldiers that suffered life-changing injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan or during training for war. With the release, Adams hoped to “reveal the sheer grit and bravery of the victims who, despite personal sacrifice, live each day with continued vim, vigour and dignity.” This past Remembrance Day, an exhibition was held in London displaying the war photographs he’s taken over the past four years.
15 Adams Himself Has Also Been On A Canadian Stamp
In 2009, Canada released a set of four stamps featuring artists who had enhanced Canada’s music industry. Surprisingly (to Americans, perhaps), the other recipients were not fellow superstars like Céline Dion, Alanis Morissette, or Joni Mitchell, but more national heroes like Édith Butler, Stompin’ Tom Connors, and Robert Charlebois.
16- Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for contributions to popular music and philanthropic work via his own foundation, which helps improve education for people around the world.
17. Adams was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in March 2011 and Canada’s Walk of Fame, Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame in 1998.
18. In April 2006 he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at Canada’s Juno Awards.
19. In 2008, Bryan was ranked 38th on the list of All-Time top artists in the Billboard Hot 100 50th Anniversary Charts.
20- Bryan Adams was once rumoured to have had an affair with the late Princess of Wales. Adams’ ex-girlfriend Cecilie Thomsen claims that he dated Diana back in 1996 when she separated from Prince Charles. He also may have written his 1985 song “Diana” about his longing for her years before.
21- Bryan Adams has been nominated for a whopping 58 Juno awards in his career so far. He has won 18 times, with the highlights including Best Male Artist in 2000, Male Vocalist of the Year in 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1997.
22- Out of all of Adams’ number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S., the only one that wasn’t written specifically for a movie was “Heaven” from 1985’s “Reckless.”
24- Adams is a proud Canadian, but lives in the UK. He lives in Chelsea, London with his longtime girlfriend Alicia Grimaldi and their two daughters. They also have a home in Paris.
25- Bryan Adams’ massive hit “Everything I Do, I Do For You” from “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” and “Waking Up The Neighbors” set a UK chart record. It has been the only song to spend 16 consecutive weeks at number one in British chart history. It spent seven weeks at the chart top in the U.S. and nine weeks in Canada. The single alone has sold over 15 million copies internationally.
26- Adams says the most memorable collaboration of his career was when he recorded “It’s Only Love” with Tina Turner. According to Adams, “Working with Tina Turner was amazing. I used to go to see her in the clubs when I was in my late teens, early 20s before she hit the big time. It was incredible to watch her. It was such a privilege to have sung with her, especially since I was only 24 at the time.”
27- If you ever have Bryan Adams over for dinner at your place, don’t serve meat. The rocker has been a practicing vegan since 1989 and a strong animal rights activist with PETA.
29- Believe it or not, Bryan Adams actually somehow shares the same birthday as American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams on Nov. 5th. What are the odds of that? Ryan Adams had received a variety of infuriating Bryan Adams jokes throughout the early years of his career, but he’s recently gotten a sense of humour about it.
30- Bryan Adams been named a Member of the Order of Canada and Officer of the Order of Canada for his contributions to Canadian culture. Adams also has a star on both the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood and on Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto as a charter member.
31. At the age of 14, Adams worked as a dish washer to save money for a guitar.
32. He started auditioning as a guitarist while rehearsing his own band in his mother’s rented basement in North Vancouver.
33. He quit school after his auditions got him jobs to go on the road and play underage in nightclubs with bar bands like Shock and a short stint with pub band Sweeney Todd, who in 1976 released If Wishes Were Horses with the 15-year-old Adams as the singer.
34. By age 17, Adams had quit touring and started working in the Vancouver studio scene, working as a background vocalist for the CBC and backing local artists and with Motown keyboardist Robbie King, whom Adams attributes as having given him his first ever paying session.
35. In 1978, at the age of 18, Adams met Jim Vallance introduced by a mutual friend in a Vancouver music store. Vallance was the former drummer and principal songwriter for Vancouver-based rock band Prism and had recently quit that band to focus on a career as a studio musician and songwriter. They agreed to meet at Vallance’s home studio a few days later, which proved to be the beginning of a partnership which still exists today.
36. Later in 1978, Adams signed to A&M records for one dollar.
22. Some of the first demos written in 1978 have surfaced over the years, most notably “I’m Ready” (recorded for both the album Cuts Like a Knife and later his release for MTV Unplugged) and “Remember,” which was recorded on his first album.
37. Most of Adams’s philanthropic activity is focused on “The Bryan Adams Foundation”, which aims to advance education and learning opportunities for children and young people worldwide, believing that an education is the best gift that a child can be given.
38- Adams has been nominated for three Academy Awards. Once in 1992 for “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” from “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” once in 1996 for “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?” from “Don Juan DeMarco,” and once in 1997 for “I Finally Found Someone” from “The Mirror Has Two Faces.” He hasn’t won any.
39- In his career so far, Adams has been nominated for 15 Grammy Awards. He has only won once for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for “Everything I Do, I Do For You” from “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” in 1992.
40- “Summer of ’69,” was originally going to be titled “Best Days of My Life.” The phrase “summer of ’69” only appeared once in its original form, and Adams initially thought the song wasn’t strong enough to be featured on an album.
41- Bryan Adams’ 1998 hit “When You’re Gone” with Spice Girl Mel C was actually reworked in 2005 for the release of his “Anthology” album. The new take featured Pamela Anderson as his duet partner for the U.S. version. Weird.
42- 1991’s “Waking Up The Neighbors,” one of Adams’ most popular albums, caused a lot of controversy when it was released because the CRTC didn’t consider it a Canadian album. That meant it received limited airplay on Canadian radio in favour of “real” Canadian content. The CRTC felt that since Adams co-produced the album with British producer and songwriter Mutt Lange and recorded it outside of Canada, it didn’t qualify as being Canadian content. Adams fought the CRTC on the movement and it eventually led to Canadian content rules being broadened. Way to go Bry.
In 29 January 2006, Adams became the first Western artist to perform in Karachi, Pakistan after the 11 September attacks, in conjunction with a benefit concert by Shehzad Roy to raise money for underprivileged children to go to school. Some of the proceeds of that concert also went to victims of the 2005 Pakistan earthquake.
51. During his tours of 1992-1994, Adams successfully campaigned for the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary with Greenpeace Chairman David McTaggart.
52. Adams supports the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) by shooting photos for them and writing letters. He wrote to the CEO of KFC restaurants in Canada in November 2007, asking them to become leaders in using more modern and more humane methods of killing chickens.
53. Adams has been a strict vegetarian since 1989.
54. On 14 September 2014, Adams was the first artist to sing at the Invictus Games organised by Prince Harry in East London. Prince Harry reciprocated by attending Adams’s exhibition on Wounded soldiers in London.
55 Adams works as a photographer as well as musician.
56. On 16 September 2015 he was given an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in London for his work in photography.
57. Adams has been published in British Vogue, L’uomo Vogue, American Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, British GQ, Esquire, Interview magazine and i-D, among others.
58. Shot advertising and PR campaigns for the likes of Hugo Boss, Guess Jeans, Sand, Converse, Montblanc, John Richmond, Fred Perry, Escada, Gaastra, Zeiss, Joop and OPEL cars in Germany.
59. He has won 3 Lead Awards in Germany for his fashion photography, most recently in October 2015 for his story in Helmut Berger, and previously in June 2012 and again in 2006.
6042. Adams has also recorded songs critical of warfare on past albums.
61. His first book of photos was released by Steidl in October 2012 titled Exposed.
62 Previous published collaborations include; American Women June 2005, for Calvin Klein in the United States; proceeds from this book went to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City for their breast cancer research for programs, and Made in Canada December 1999 for Flare Magazine in Canada; proceeds went to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Both books were dedicated to his friend Donna, who died of the disease.
63. As a photographer, Adams has worked with many of his musical peers, including Lana Del Rey, Jared Leto, The Who, Sting, Shania Twain, Mick Jagger, Arcade Fire, Ray Charles, Tina Turner, Rod Stewart, Robert Plant, Take That, Joss Stone, Plácido Domingo, Sarah McLachlan, Celine Dion, Billy Idol, Moby, Amy Winehouse, Annie Lennox, Peter Gabriel, Bryan Ferry, Lenny Kravitz, Die Antwoord, Boy George, John Newman, Vanessa Paradis, Michael Buble, Theo Hutchcraft, Hurts, Anastacia, Gilberto Gil and Morrissey.
Adams and Alicia Grimaldi, who is also a trustee and co-founder of his namesake foundation, had their first daughter, Mirabella Bunny Grimaldi Adams on 22 April 2011.
64. They announced the birth of their second daughter Lula Rosylea Grimaldi Adams on 14 February 2013.
65. Adams has been vegetarian since the age of 29, originally for health reasons, but is also an advocate for animal rights.
66. Adams has homes in Chelsea, London, and Paris.
67. He is a supporter of Chelsea F.C.
68 – You Want It You Got It is the second album of Adams. That’s the first album of Adams which was co produced by Clearmountain. Find Bruno Mars facts here.
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Another album of Adams was Reckless. In November 1984, the album was released. The singles were “It’s Only Love”, “Somebody”, “Run to you”, and “One Night Love Affair”.
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