![]() ![]() I’m just looking to make music that I like and (I) hope that we can bring some people along with us. God, if I went out to search for critical acclaim, I would be pedaling backwards. Does that irk you?Ī - I’ve never really gone for that. You have had everything except critical acclaim. You’ve been filling large halls since 1985. Q - You’ve sold millions of records and you’ve worked with rock legends such as Roger Daltrey, Tina Turner and Joe Cocker. Q - I think you have to wait another five years for that. So I’ve been with them for 15 years and I’m waiting for my gold watch. Q - How long were you plugging away before “Cuts Like A Knife” took off?Ī - I signed with A&M Records when I was 18. You had a slew of Top 10 singles, like “Run to You,” “Summer of 69” and “Heaven.”Ī - When we played JFK in ’85, we were into “Reckless.” We were very fortunate to get that far. Two of your records, “Cuts Like A Knife” and “Reckless,” were platinum-plus. We’ve crawled all the way to the middle (laughs). Q - How did you feel returning to JFK for Live Aid as a member of rock’s upper echelon?Ī - Well, we aren’t (now). Like Joni Mitchell once said, “Pave paradise and put up a parking lot.” As a matter of fact, in Vancouver I’ve tried to raise awareness, because they’ve torn down some absolute gems there. It reminds (me) of the Berlin Olympic Stadium. We played in Philadelphia six months ago and I remember we drove past it and the driver said they were tearing it down and I said, ‘You’re kidding.’ To me that kind of thing is horrifying. That piece of architecture was nice and subtle. It’s the same old story, man, people have no respect for the past. I think it was a travesty they pulled that place down. It was one of the nicest places I’ve ever played in America.Ī - Absolutely. Two years later you cam back to the same stadium for Live Aid, and you were filling arenas …Ī - Philadelphia made a big mistake by eliminating that stadium (JFK). ![]() ![]() That was just before you broke into the mainstream. You were opening a show which featured Journey, John Mellencamp, who was John Cougar then, Sammy Hagar and The Tubes. Q - I remember a decade ago when you played JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. Here’s what the soft-spoken performer, who returned to music last year after a four-year respite with the multi-platinum disc, “Waking Up The Neighbors,” had to say: I’d prefer to give people a sense of what is happening now.” “Those (other kinds of) stories become rather repetitive. “I would rather have the quotes be directly from me, rather than from someone doing a story on me,” explained Adams at the start of a recent - and rare - tele phone interview before a show in Erie. Big Tuesday night at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, insists that all interviews be written in a question-and-answer format. So the Canadian rocker, who performs with Mr. The 33-year-old Vancouver, Canada, native and resident, who struck platinum a decade ago with his third album, “Cuts Like A Knife,” and played virtually every high-profile concert of the 1980s (Live Aid, Nelson Mandela’s Freedomfest, Roger Waters’ Berlin Wall concert), also says that many stories written about him are “unfactual.” ![]() Bryan Adams freely admits that he doesn’t particularly like doing interviews. ![]()
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