Have you ever recorded in the studio before?’ He goes, ‘No.’ I said, ‘Do you want to come in tomorrow and we can try a song out?’ He went, ‘Sure.’ And that’s how the song came about.” Adams enlisted his friend and labelmate Sting for the No. I was with one of my friends, and I said, ‘That drummer - he’s got the kind of energy that my song needs.’ So I went up to him, I said, ‘Hey, I’m Bryan. “A lot of it came down to the fact that I went into a nightclub one night, and I saw this ska band playing, and the drummer was quite brilliant. “I recorded that song four times before I got the performance I wanted of it,” said Adams of the 1985 hit that became one of his signature tunes. So I put it on ‘Reckless,’ and it was from that record that it became successful.” Adams will celebrate the 40th anniversary of his breakthrough album, 1983’s “Cuts Like a Knife,” in January. And then I said, ‘Look, let’s just forget what the film’s about - let’s just write a good song.’ So we wrote that song, submitted it, and it became part of that soundtrack, but the film didn’t do anything and the soundtrack didn’t do anything. “And I’m not dissing male strippers - I mean, obviously, they’ve got a place in this world - but you know, it wasn’t that easy to come up with. “The subject matter of the film wasn’t really compelling,” said Adams. 1 hit was commissioned for the 1983 movie “A Night in Heaven,” starring “Blue Lagoon” actor Christopher Atkins as a male stripper. We did one take of it - that was it.” “Heaven”Īdams’ first No. I played it for the band, we did a take, and I just remember looking back into the studio and seeing everyone standing up. “It was the last song I recorded for the record. “So when it came down to recording ‘Reckless,’ which is the album I was doing after ‘Cuts Like a Knife,’ I had this song,” recalled Adams. This 1984 hit was originally written for Blue Oyster Cult, but the rock band didn’t want to do it. Re-recorded versions of his classic hits. “And Jim said, ‘Whoa, what did you just say there? It sounded like you just said, ‘Cuts like a knife.’ We go back and listen, and he said, ‘How about, ‘Cuts like a knife, but it feels so right?’ I said, ‘Yeah!’ And so off we go.” Bryan Adams’ new album, “So Happy It Hurts (Super Deluxe Edition),” includes “I wrote it with Jim Vallance, and we kind of knew pretty much right away that it was something special,” said Adams, who started by mumbling through the song indecipherably. The two-disc set marks the fourth release of 2022 for the 62-year-old singer-guitarist, who earlier this year also dropped an LP featuring his own versions of the “Pretty Woman: The Musical” songs he wrote for the stage.Īs Adams gets set to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his breakthrough album, 1983’s “Cuts Like a Knife,” in January, he looks back on the titanic tunes that have made us feel so right for four decades. Pulling a Taylor Swift, ’80s pop-rock icon Bryan Adams re-recorded his classic hits for a super deluxe version of his “So Happy It Hurts” album that was released Friday. Miley Cyrus is back to Disney - here’s how she was saved from child-star curse Jonas Brothers on Broadway: ‘We never thought we would get here’ Miley Cyrus’ fans are convinced she secretly leaked an albumįoo Fighters release ’emotionally raw’ first song since Taylor Hawkins’ death
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