Moving swiftly along from Tina … in Spot #86 is an artist which has forever left me rather cold. But 4.9 million people were willing to shell out their hard earned cash on the album… so who am I to question the quality and / or talent of the man.
Canadian rocker Bryan Adams , to his credit , espoused the use of synthesizers and stuck to his guitar, in a time when the majority of bands were morphing into ‘new wave’. His album Reckless was a melodic rock mix … released in February 1985 and amassing 4.9 million in sales.
Most readers will know most of the tunes on this post …including 
Probably NOT the best known , but certainly the most successful track off the album was Heaven which made it to #1 on the US charts
Heaven
Denim jeans and a t-shirt … and ‘the boy next door’ look. I have always rated Bryan Adams as a Bruce Springsteen wannaba but nonetheless this next track is for me one of the best Adams songs … and possibly the most well known, Summer of 69 made the US charts without getting into single figures.
Summer of 69
I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it 'til my fingers bled
Was the summer of '69
Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit, Jody got married
I should've known we'd never get far
Lyrics Credits
So I thought I could forget about Tina for a year or so …. But here she is again. This time in a duet from the album… a moderately successful single which I felt was appropriate to play.
It’s only Love
All in all a fairly pleasant listen without coming close to leading me down the music rabbit hole.
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Footnote: This project was inspired by the publication “The 100 Best Selling Albums of the 80’s” authored jointly by Peter Dodds, Justin Crawthorne, Chris Barret and Dan Auty and published by Amber Books (ISBN: 1-904867-12-1).This and other great music inspired books can be found on their website www.amberbooks.co.uk
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