Bryan Adams interview: ‘I only wrote Summer of ‘69 because it made me laugh’

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And I was a big Mott the Hoople fan, so I was like, ‘Wow, Ian Hunter!’ Bob says, ‘Ian, this is… what’s your name again?’” But Clearmountain did work with Adams right through the Eighties, even if A&M rejected Adams’s plea to call his second album Bryan Adams Hasn’t Heard of You Either. It was all-pervasive.” open image in gallery Adams started pursuing rock’n’roll as a kid and never stopped I mention that between “I Do It for You” entering the charts in June 1991 and leaving them in December of that year, I graduated from university, got dumped by the woman I loved, went to graduate school, dropped out of graduate school, had my first anxiety episodes, then found out my father had terminal cancer. And how the first thing he said after he was released as a hostage was, ‘Is Bryan Adams still No 1?’” Is it possible to write a song so universal deliberately? I think the next time you come around, man, you should do your research.’” Adams knows there’ll never be another “I Do It for You”.