He explained to Pond: “In high school, I was too far into my music to even pay attention to girls. As an adolescent, he pursued his rock goals with single-minded fervor. Though Adams was only ten at the time the song mentions, a year or two later, according to Pond, he did buy his first guitar and start learning to play it. ” When he turned sixteen, however, his parents separated, and he lived with his mother, Jane, in Vancouver, British Columbia.Īdams ’s early musical development is echoed, if not narrated, in the lyrics of his 1985 hit “Summer of ’69 ” : “I got my first real six-string/Bought it at the five-and-dime/Played it till my fingers bled/It was the summer of ’69, ” as Pond quoted it. Adams recalled for Steve Pond in Rolling Stone that “the discipline that they taught me in school was good, because I was able to focus on things -but I didn ’t realize that at the time. He attended strict military schools in several countries, including England, Austria, Portugal, and Israel. This background, coupled with the fact that Conrad Adams served in the Canadian diplomatic corps, meant a childhood of moving from place to place for Bryan. His parents were former British citizens, and his father, Conrad Adams, came from a military family. They ’re melodies that stick in your head, ” explained Pat Steward, Adams ’s drummer, to Jane O ’Hara in another Maclean ’s article.Īdams was born on November 5, 1959, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
” Though some critics have dismissed Adams as a lesser version of rocker Bruce Springsteen, lacking the substance that the latter infuses into his songs, others have praised Adams ’s simplicity. ” He owes this distinction primarily to straightforward rock anthems like “Kids Wanna Rock ” and ballads like “Heaven. His 1985 album Reckless has sold more than ten million copies -impressive by any standard -but, as Jennings pointed out, Adams has enjoyed wider distribution “than any Canadian in history. Bryan Adams “is arguably Canada ’s brightest male star, ” declared Nicholas Jennings in Maclean ’s.
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