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“People have told me they’ve heard it at weddings – with a guy singing it at the organ. Oh God! I can’t imagine what that was like”: Bryan Adams and the ballad that ate the world

The Groover from Vancouver’s record-breaking hit

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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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“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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“No, man! If we had had this level of success in the 70s we would not be here now. We would never have survived it”: The wild story of Aerosmith’s Pump, the album that turned them into superstars all over again

How a drug-free Aerosmith hit a new career high with 1989’s Pump

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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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“I had no idea it would become such a classic… I just threw in the lyric ‘It was the summer of 69’ and it stuck’”: How Bryan Adams and his co-writer Jim Vallance created one of the greatest pop-rock guitar anthems of all time

With Summer Of '69, Adams created an evergreen hit that defined the era and became a rite of passage for generations of guitarists

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Bryan Adams showcases the "chaos and destruction" of battle in new video for War Machine

War Machine is a song Bryan Adams co-wrote for Kiss before he was a star

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"Monday was Heaven, Tuesday was Run To You, Wednesday was Somebody": Bryan Adams looks back on the miraculous creation of his breakthrough album

Having paid his dues – and then some – 1984 found Bryan Adams entering a creative purple patch, writing a timeless hit of the future seemingly every single day

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“I had no idea it would become such a classic… I just threw in the lyric ‘It was the summer of 69’ and it stuck’”: How Bryan Adams and his co-writer Jim Vallance created one of the greatest pop-rock guitar anthems of all time

With Summer Of '69, Adams created an evergreen hit that defined the era and became a rite of passage for generations of guitarists

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“It Made Me Laugh”: People Can’t Believe Bryan Adams Has To Clarify Meaning Behind “Summer Of ’69”

As it turns out, it has nothing to do with the actual year 1969. The post “It Made Me Laugh”: People Can’t Believe Bryan Adams Has To Clarify Meaning Behind “Summer Of ’69” first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Bryan Adams ‘tried to save’ Princess Diana and Amy Winehouse

‘Summer of ‘69’ singer opens up about his close friendships with ‘Rehab’ singer and the late royal

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"I'd made the best of what I could with the three chords that I knew": Bryan Adams on how an "extremely average" musician carved out one of rock's most successful careers

These days Bryan Adams says he's "a photographer moonlighting as a singer," but before that came decades of making high-grade classic rock

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