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(Everything I Do) I Do It For You
Bryan Adams
It may not have reworked the rock ballad format but this song completely rewrote the record books after remaining top of the UK charts for 16 weeks. Before Bryan Adams released the central theme to the Kevin Costner film 鈥 Robin Hood Prince of Thieves only the Beatles, the Stones and Slim |
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Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen, Robert John "Mutt" Lange
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| Genre |
Rock |
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| Album |
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves |
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| Released |
1991 |
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| UK Chart |
1 |
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Whitman had come that close to hogging the top slot. The song鈥檚 creators included the late film composer Michael Kamen whose credits included The Wall with Pink Floyd, Mettalica鈥檚 multi-platinum album, S&M, as well as numerous film scores (Brazil, X-Men, Lethal Weapon and Mr Holland鈥檚 Opus to name a few). The tune for the song had been written by Kamen in the 60s. He sent it to Adams and Lange who wrote the lyrics and instead of using traditional instrumentation for a medieval lyric gave it a rock treatment featuring Little Feat鈥檚 Billy Payne on keyboards. On its release it topped the charts in 16 countries and sold over eight million copies worldwide becoming one of the biggest selling singles of all time. In the US it stayed top of the pile for seven weeks later winning a Grammy. The song was nominated for an Academy Award but sadly one pinnacle of achievement evaded them, the Oscar went to the Disney theme 鈥淏eauty and The Beast鈥.
Bryan Adams talks to Simon Mayo |
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In this interview with Simon Mayo,听Bryan Adams says he still likes the song - despite it being played everywhere. Thanks to Simon himself.
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