Bryan Adams has turned in some of the best blue-collar rock out there.
To the transient fans who jumped on his wagon for the paydirt of the early 90s, a Bryan Adams buyer’s guide is a short conversation: simply seek out Waking Up The Neighbours, stream Reckless highlights Heaven, Summer Of ’69 and Run To You, and your work is done.
Seasoned Adams watchers, however, know better. Long before – and sporadically after – those chart-residing, till-ringing years, Adams turned in some of the best blue-collar rock out there, his mission statement always to produce hardy, hooky, no-nonsense music that was worth his audience’s time and money. “For me,” he reflected, “there was no message, no trying to be a man of the people. I was just trying to write great songs.”