Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Bryan Weaver Considering Run Against Jim Graham
Weaver was kind enough to at least send us a quick statement via email shortly after the news broke. Given the controversy surrounding incumbent Jim Graham's right hand man, the Ward 1 race could be one to watch in 2010. Then again, Weaver has reportedly only raised about $2,500 so far, and he still hasn't definitely, absolutely decided to run.
So who's been trying to convince Weaver to run? "Friends, activists, small business owners and other ANC Commissioners have approached me," Weaver says, noting that he wasn't too hard a sell, at least conceptually. "It's not a surprise to anyone that I have been actually bothered by the atmosphere of the Wilson Building."
"I have always resented influence peddling, petty and punitive politics," Weaver added, in a hardly veiled reference to the Loza controversy.
Sunday, 1 November 2009
John Adams rallies for key Bowl division win, PSAL Week 9 football roundup
Adams trailed by eight points against Beach Channel on Saturday as the team headed into halftime, and the team needed a victory to secure a spot in the upcoming PSAL Bowl division playoffs.
But coach Jerry Weitzen didn't give his team an impassioned speech. He simply told them to recall how they'd opened the year with six straight wins, and play with similar fire in the second half.
"I said, 'Here we are in a dogfight,'" Weitzen said. "If we lose, we may not make the playoffs. We have to come out and fight and play like true champions."
The Spartans did exactly as their coach requested, scoring 22 straight points in a 22-20 victory.
The win likely secured the Spartans' place in the four team Bowl division playoffs, which will begin in two weeks. Adams is now in third place in the division behind Truman (8-0) and Jefferson (7-1).
The Spartans fell to August Martin, 8-4, last weekend, and Weitzen said another setback on Saturday would have been "painful."
His team averted that with an explosive third quarter. During one 40-second span, the Spartans scored 16 points. First, Brandon Wilson scored a two yard rushing touchdown and converted the two point conversion. Beach Channel fumbled the ensuing kickoff return, and Dolphins senior Jahleek Austin recovered the ball in his own end zone, where he was tackled for a safety, giving Adams a 10-8 lead.
Adams' Akeeme Chavis returned the following kickoff for another touchdown, giving Adams a 16-8 advantage. The team extended that to 22-8 early in the fourth quarter, when linebacker Carlito Atkins scooped up a fumble and rumbled 66-yards for another score.
Beach Channel cut into the lead when Daryll Sanford found Wayne Harris for an 11-yard TD midway through the fourth, and Turran Rhodes brought the team to within two points, 22-20, with a 21 yard rushing score with 1:55 to play. But the Spartans defense stopped Sanford from rushing for the potential game tying two point conversion, tackling him at the one yard line.
Monday, 26 October 2009
Bryan Adams for Straight
Look Bryan Adams tonight, Oct. 26, at the Sandler Center in Virginia Beach.
Thursday, 22 October 2009
acoustic theater run, Bryan Adams keeps up
An acoustic tour of the US early two months, Bryan Adams [ tickets ] has added a handful of new gigs to his fall itinerary.
The journey, which got underway early last month, continues Friday (10/23) in Miami, then works its way north along the East Coast. Since last check, Adams has tacked four new stops onto the schedule; shows will now take place in Minneapolis (12/4); Waukegan, IL (12/5); Joliet, IL (12/6); and Dearborn, WI (12/8). Details are shown below.
The Canadian singer/songwriter, who will spend November performing in Europe and January touring the UK, most currently released "11," his aptly titled 11th studio set. The effort hit shelves last year exclusively at Wal Mart and Sam's Club retailers. Adams followed the album's arrival with an "11 Days, 11 Cities" acoustic tour of Europe, as well as a late year solo acoustic run of the US.
Earlier this summer, Adams was rewarded for his contributions to music and philanthropic initiatives with a Canadian postage stamp bearing his image.
"I never thought about it," Adams said of this recognition during a recent interview with LiveDaily. "I got a message from a friend of mine saying, 'Congratulations getting on a stamp, but I'm not sure I'll be too keen about licking the back side of it.'"
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Play Belfast to Bryan Adams
The singer, whose track Everything I Do is the longest running UK number one single ever, the Waterfront Hall in Belfast will play a acoustic show on Sunday, January 17.
The concert will look Adams perform without his usual rock band. The Grammy award winner has interspersed these acoustic shows with stadium dates in Europe and the US, giving his classic hits a new spin.
Adams will also play Dublin, Caslebar and Killarney as part of the Bare Bones tour.
Tickets to look Adams at the Waterfront Hall go on sale tomorrow at 9am, priced £44.
Meanwhile troubled pop star Pete Doherty, who was forced to pull out of his Belfast show last night due to illness, remains in a “stable” condition in a Swindon hospital.
A spokeswoman for the Great Western Hospital confirmed the Babyshambles frontman had been admitted, but said she was unable to comment on the nature of his illness.
His agent said Doherty was suffering from enervation and breathing difficulties.
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Perfection was Bryan Adam
Saturday, 26 September 2009
Multitalented man, Adams is busy
In the '80s, Adams was on top of the music world with a pair of multi platinum selling albums "Cuts Like a Knife" and his 1984 chart topper "Reckless."
But do you also know Bryan Adams the award winning photographer? Or Bryan Adams the philanthropist?
Nearly 30 years after his debut album, the 49 year old Adams has become as synonymous with Canada as Rush and the Toronto Maple Leafs. He even had his own postage stamp issued in his home country earlier this year. And he continues to stay busy with a plethora of activities, all of which he's proven to be very good at.
He will play in Salt Lake City on Sunday, his first gig in Utah in many years. Adams himself told the Deseret News he couldn't remember the last time he was in the Beehive State.
For his current tour, Adams is playing solo acoustic, And fans are being treated to songs spanning his entire career, including some deep cuts off his earliest albums.
Adams said, "It's something I needed to do forever but didn't actually have the (courage) to do it"
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Bryan Adams with Q and A
Monday, 21 September 2009
The superstar unlikely
He might be able to fill Rexall Place twice, like Keith Urban, whose country rockin' stylings has yielded few tunes anyone who wasn't a country fan would know --unlike Bryan Adams, whose songs are far more of a draw than he is and in doing so has become one of the most unlikely country superstars ever made.
Born in New Zealand, moved to Australia, then to Nashville, Tenn., reformed drug addict, happily married to Nicole Kidman, new father to a baby girl, which increases the "aww" factor in Urban's popularity exponentially, this is quite a story.
Last night's two hour display of complimentary traits (handsome, talented, good singer, smart songwriter, decent guitarist) come together for a common cause (to make women melt) was as country as the average Bryan Adams concert, which is to say it was only country accidentally, and just as filled to the brim with romantic homilies.
Urban and his capable band opened with the upbeat Hit the Ground Running basically a warning that he won't take "we're through!" for an answer segueing gracefully into the slightly less upbeat Days Go By (a reminder that life is short) and then into the downbeat ballad Stupid Boy, an admonishment of some former cad boyfriend she's better off without.
Women near the front of the stage waved New Zealand flags (maybe Australian, hard to tell from a distance) and proffered roses, not the first or last display of female Urban-generated hysteria. Yes indeed, most if not all of Urban's material is about or directed at women. Know your target market!
Later came Once in a Lifetime, with its telling line, "Don't fear it now, we're going all the way," before getting into all the stuff about having kids and growing old together. This remains one of the best pick-up lines ever penned. The man is a master.
Small countrified trappings like a largely inaudible mandolin player who looked like Nikki Sixx or the fact everyone was wearing blue jeans did little to detract from the essential '80s-rock, balls-to-the-walls, Bryan Adams ness of the evening.
All that was missing was a man singing about his first real six-string he bought at the five and dime in the summer of '69. Keith Urban was two years old in 1969, although the trusty "six string" appears in one of his best-loved songs, Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me, not being played until his fingers bled, but with his girlfriend, "across her pretty knee."
Much has been made of Urban's prowess on the six-string, but again he is less a real "picker" like Brad Paisley than a basic rock guitarist. At one point, he copped his best Eddie Van Halen solo and sang at the same time. You don't hear that every day.
Urban was also unafraid to take the spotlight to himself in several songs, holding 14,000 fans in rapt attention with only his voice and strumming guitar on heartrending love ballads, mainly.
The more obvious romantic stuff got the biggest response, of course, including a late evening rendition of You Look Good in My Shirt while draped in a Canadian flag. Real crowd pleaser, that one. Basic message of the song: Sure, we haven't worked out our problems yet, but the sex is awesome, so let's keep trying.
Taking the metaphor to music: Keith Urban still hasn't come up with a song I'm going to remember two minutes after it's over, but his showmanship is so amazing that maybe it doesn't matter. We'll see what happens when the long honeymoon is over.
Openers Lady Antebellum sure has a new fangled, high-falutin' sound for such an a quaint name basically "Lady Before the Civil War," which I guess means that they're more than 150 years old and owned slaves. Well, never mind.
These good looking young singers probably picked it because it sounded cool. Or maybe Antebellum in this case refers to before the Gulf War, which may explain why all their music sounds like bad '80s pop. This, of course, is one of the hallmarks of modern country music identifiable only as such by blue jeans and perhaps a slight twang in the voice. So there's not a lot of depth here, but plenty of flash with a pair of strong singers --one male, one female -- singing smoky romantic ballads into each other's eyes when they're not frolicking around the stage to lively tunes so radio friendly they practically hump your leg.
Faithful versions of both Boys of Summer and Hurts So Good seals the band's fate as yet another woefully unoriginal product of the Nashville hit machine. In short, they're the new Sugarland.
Urban's show repeats tomorrow night.
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SOUNDCHECK
MAIN EVENT
KEITH URBAN
IN THE SEATS
14,000 IN REXALL PLACE
NOTE PERFECT
THE BRYAN ADAMS OF COUNTRY PULLS OUT ALL THE STOPS TO MAKE HIS FEMALE FANS MELT IN THEIR SEATS.
Rating Four Out of Five
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Paramount Arts Center 'Bryan Adams' to perform
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster.com.
The show at the Paramount Arts Center provides a rare chance for fans to look Adams as they’ve not seen him before: solo-acoustic and confidant. Here’s what the critics are saying:
“Armed only with a small array of acoustic guitars, Adams packed enthusiastic fans sometimes a bit too enthusiastic into the confidant Sheldon for a great night of music and insight.” St. Louis Post Dispatch
“They sang along with the ever so familiar choruses, filled in vocal gaps he left for them, clapped the missing drum parts, hummed the missing solos, and roared their blessing after every offering, right up to a long and hearty standing ovation after ‘Run To You’.” Toronto Star
Adams has sold more than 65 million records, toured six continents and achieved #1 status in over 40 countries around the world. With hits like, “Cuts Like A Knife”, “Summer of ‘69”, “Kids Wanna Rock”, “Can’t Stop This Thing We’ve Started”, “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”, “Open Road” and most currently “Thought I’d Seen Everything”.
Tickets go on sale on Friday at 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster.com, Paramount Arts Center box office or charge by phone by calling 800-745-3000.
Friday, 4 September 2009
Announce South Florida Shows, Jackson Browne, Bryan Adams, and Saosin
Friday, 28 August 2009
Vanilla Ice is coming, why even if no one knows?
Think of it as the Cold Factor. American folk musician Rodriguez had elderly from music after failing to succeed in his home country. He then found out that he is super famous in South Africa and came to tour, enjoing a career reappearance. Who knows… Maybe SA can do the same for Mr Ice aka Robert Matthew Van Winkle (a much better stage name, if you ask me). And if it works for him, maybe it'll work for other bands whose star power has used in the heaven. I need to see MC Hammer's pants making a return. I need to see Boy George, pot belly and all. I need to see Ringo Starr doing his solo shtick. I need to see Hanson now that they're grown women. I need to see Europe doing one Final Countdown. I need to see Billy Ray Cyrus stepping out of Miley's shadow. Come one! Come all!
Monday, 24 August 2009
Bryan Adams commits to UTEP
Bryan Adams older defensive end Tajh Fite said Thursday that he has orally committed to UT-El Paso, choosing the Miners over SMU and North Texas.
Fite (6-3, 230) said he will start at defensive end and tight end this season. Fite, who only played defensive end last year, had 35 approach and four sacks. Fite said UTEP beginner him as a defensive end.
Oral commitments are non binding. The first day a football player in the Class of 2010 can sign a national letter of intent is Feb. 3.
Brandon George
Friday, 14 August 2009
Rolls out hits in solo show to Bryan Adams
Perhaps even more fitting was how the Massey Hall stage was so abnormally barren, matching the rather sparse, solo acoustic evening Bryan Adams had in store for the near capacity army on Thursday evening in Toronto.
The two-hour, 29 song show was the first of three Adams has in Toronto this week, two at Massey Hall and a Roy Thomson Hall agreement on Friday. And fortunately it was empty of the slick, road polished performance Adams has perfected with his longtime bridle over the years.
With six studio lights in a semi circle and a piano off to his right, Adams desolated no time delving into his heap of singles with Run To You and briefly inviting the crowd to clap where the kick drum would be heard.
"Thank you good evening everybody," Adams said prior to Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven, the first of several softer, romantic ballads on the way.
Looking in 2009 the same way he did in 1989 and 1999 with the boyish look, denim jeans and raspy voice, Adams appeared to enjoy himself throughout on Let's Make A Night To Remember and the poppy Can't Stop This Thing We Started from the album Waking Up The Neighbours.
Adams played a similar show last year at The Carlu but definitely preferred the acoustics, intimacy and vibe in this hallowed venue, recalling how his first Massey Hall show was supporting an unnamed bridle who messed with his sound cables onstage.
Other stories about performing at Casa Loma of all places early in his career were told when not replying to shouts and screams from female fans. "It's the Toronto mating call," he homoured after one shriek early on.
While the night ended with different hits, the middle portion of the show was perhaps the most entertaining overall. Following his stomping during Heat Of The Night, Adams brought out his early writing partner Jim Vallance to play piano on the astralThe Best Was Yet To Come.
How to top that? Well, Stompin' Tom Connors of course. Adams jokingly started a verse of The Hockey Song before performing the entire number as the crowd clapped and sang. He also ad-libbed that he didn't know what happened to the Leafs while a fan shouted "the Blue Jays suck too."
Another effective one-two alliance was (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (a song not heard on radio in over 2 hours) and Cuts Like A Knife as the audience supplied the "na na na" harmonies to the latter.
After accepting a BRYAN ADAMS allowance plate from a fan, Adams nailed This Time before giving Please Forgive Me a humorous country feel complete with the twang and southern Nashville drawl.
Heaven, Somebody, Summer Of '69, Straight From The Heart and Never Let Go (dedicated to Canadian soldiers overseas) fleshed out the performance, one which breathed some fresh life into the older nuggets.
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Kick off Edmonton Oilers’ season to Bryan Adams
Tickets for the concert go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster. Prices adjunct from $69 to $125 plus surcharges.
Adams last performed in Edmonton at the Winspear Centre in February.
The Oilers Face Off 2009 weekend is a kickoff to the 2009-10 season. The concert, which will feature a significant Oilers appearance, will be followed up by a second event involving the team the next day, with full details to be announced next week.
Oilers' season-ticket holders also have the opportunity to win their way in to the Bryan Adams show; 500 premium floor armchair have been designated for a special Oilers Season Seat Holder "Get Lucky" Draw.
Details will be deliver directly to the ticket holders.
"I can't think of a better way to get fired up for the start of the season than by inviting Bryan Adams, his band, our players, coaches, fans and friends to be a part of Face-off 2009," said Oilers president and CEO Patrick LaForge.
Saturday, 8 August 2009
Bryan Adams performing in Missoula
Adams, who dominated the airwaves and MTV in the 1980s with hits like "Run to You" and "Cuts Like a Knife" from the heart will be performing at the Wilma Theater as this summer winds down next month.
He broke into prominence at the same time as the music video channel and his early hits saw heavy rotation through the mid-80s.
During the 1990s, he turned his talents and writing a themes for several hit movies. Now, Adams loves to perform in solo-acoustic shows which are a mix of older and newer material in a more intimate performance with just the artist on stage and his guitar on stage.
He is making three stops in the Intermountain West on this brief tour. He'll be in Salt Lake City September 27th and then he came in Missoula to performing on Monday, September 28th before moving on to Spokane on September 29th.
The tickets for the Missoula show will go on sale next week on August 14th.
Thursday, 23 July 2009
Bryan Adams Run To You
But that'd change if she ever finds out about you and I
oh - but her love is cold
It wouldn't hurt her if she didn't know cause...
When it gets to much - I need to feel your touch
I'm gonna run to you
I'm gonna run to you
cause when the feelin's right I'm gonna run all night
I'm gonna run to you
She's gotta heart if gold she'd never let me down
But you're the one that turns me on
You keep me comin' round
I know her love is true
But it's so damn easy makin' love to you
I got my mind made up - I need to feel your touch
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
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Best of Bryan Adams
- Run To You
- Summer Of '69
- Somebody
- Heaven
- (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
- Please Forgive Me
- Straight From The Heart
- Can't Stop This Thing We Started
- Heat Of The Night
Bryan Adam American Music, Grammy and Academy Awards
American Music Awards
The American Music Awards (AMA) are awarded for achievements in the record industry. Adams has won one AMA, and been nominated for three.
Year | Nominated work | Award | Result |
1992 | Bryan Adams | Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist | Nominated |
"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" | Favorite Pop/Rock Single | Won | |
1997 | Bryan Adams | Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist | Nominated |
Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States. Adams has won two Grammys and been nominated for thirteen.
Year | Nominated work | Award | Result |
1986 | Reckless | Best Rock Vocal Performance - Male | Nominated |
"It's Only Love" | Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group | Nominated | |
1992 | "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" | Record of the Year | Nominated |
Song of the Year | Nominated | ||
Best Pop Vocal Performance - Male | Nominated | ||
Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Won | ||
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Best Pop Instrumental Performance | Won | |
"Can't Stop This Thing We Started" | Best Rock Performance | Nominated | |
Best Rock Song | Nominated | ||
1995 | "All for Love" | Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals | Nominated |
1996 | "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" | Best Pop Vocal Performance | Nominated |
1997 | "Let's Make a Night to Remember" | Best Male Pop Vocal Performance | Nominated |
"The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You" | Best Rock Vocal Performance - Male | Nominated |
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers. The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is among the oldest, prestigious, and most watched film award ceremony in the world. Adams has been nominated three times but has never won. [
Year | Nominated work | Award | Result |
1992 | "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" | Best Song | Nominated |
1996 | "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" | Best Song | Nominated |
1997 | "I Finally Found Someone" | Best Song | Nominated |
Bryan Adams Awards Summary
Award | Wins | Nominations |
American Music Awards | 1 | 3 |
Grammy Awards | 2 | 13 |
Juno Awards | 18 | 54 |
MTV Video Music Awards | 1 | 10 |
Academy Awards | 0 | 3 |
Totals | ||
Awards won | 22 | |
Nominations | 84 |
Bryan Adams Videos
Year | Video details | Certifications |
1997 | MTV Unplugged
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2001 | Live at Slane Castle, Ireland
| AUS: Platinum |
2003 | Live At The Budokan
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2005 | Live in Lisbon
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Bryan Adams Music Videos
Year | Title | Director |
1980 | "Sleepless Nights" | Marcus Nispel |
"Give Me Your Love" | ||
"Remember" | ||
"Hidin' From Love" | ||
1983 | "Cuts Like a Knife" | Steve Barron |
"This Time" | ||
1984 | "Heaven" | |
"Summer of '69" | ||
"Somebody" | ||
"Kids Wanna Rock" | ||
1985 | "Run to You" | |
1987 | "Heat of the Night" | Wayne Isham |
"Victim of Love" | Dominic Sena | |
1991 | "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" | Julien Temple |
"There Will Never Be Another Tonight" | Steve Barron | |
"All I Want Is You" | Kevin Godley | |
"Can't Stop This Thing We Started" | ||
1992 | "Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven" | |
"Do I Have to Say the Words?" | Anton Corbijn | |
1993 | "All for Love" | David Hogan |
1995 | "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" | Anton Corbijn |
1996 | "Let's Make a Night to Remember" | Matthew Rolston |
"The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You" | ||
1997 | "Back to You" | Milton Lage |
"18 til I Die" | David Mould | |
1998 | "I'm Ready" | Nigel Dick |
"On a Day Like Today" | Joseph Kahn | |
1999 | "The Best of Me" | Paul Boyd |
"Inside Out" | Marcus Nispel | |
"Cloud Number Nine" | Joe Rey | |
2000 | "Don't Give Up" | Sven Harding |
2002 | "Here I Am" | Mike Lipscombe |
2004 | " Open Road" | Tomorrow's Brightest Minds |
"Flying" | Kevin Godley | |
2005 | "This Side of Paradise" | Dick Caruthers |
2008 | "I Thought I'd Seen Everything" | Bryan Adams |
Bryan Adams Studio Albums
Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||
CAN | AUS | AUT | ESP | FRA | GER | IRE | UK | US | |||
1980 | Bryan Adams
| 69 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
1981 | You Want It You Got It
| 50 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 78 | 118 | CAN: Gold |
1983 | Cuts Like a Knife
| 8 | — | — | — | — | 24 | — | 21 | 8 | CAN: 3× Platinum |
1984 | Reckless
| — | — | — | — | 19 | — | 7 | 1 | CAN:Diamond | |
1987 | Into the Fire
| 2 | — | 13 | — | — | 7 | — | 10 | 7 | CAN: 3× Platinum |
1991 | Waking Up the Neighbours
| 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 6 | CAN: Diamond |
1996 | 18 til I Die
| 4 | 2 | 2 | — | 15 | 4 | — | 1 | 31 | CAN: 3× Platinum |
1998 | On a Day Like Today
| 3 | 38 | 4 | — | 52 | 5 | — | 11 | 103 | CAN: 2× Platinum |
2004 | Room Service
| 2 | 15 | 3 | 72 | 200 | 21 | 28 | 4 | 134 | CAN: Platinum |
2008 | 11
| 1 | 35 | 2 | 12 | 157 | 14 | 25 | 6 | 80 | |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart. |
Bryan Adams Discography
In 1984, Adams launched his breakthrough album Reckless, which was approved platinum five times in the United States and diamond in Canada. The lead single from the album was "Run to You" which pointed at number one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks, while singles like "Heaven" and "Summer of '69" would be Adams' first singles to chart in mainland Europe. While the follow up to Reckless, Into the Fire didn't get as much awareness as Adams' previous album, though it included the hit single "Heat of the Night" which pointed at number two on the Mainstream Rock Tracks.
Studio albums | 10 |
3 | |
3 | |
60 | |
4 | |
34 | |
1 |
Introduction to Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams was already famous in Canada when the lanunch of his third album ‘Cuts Like A Knife’ in 1983 promote him a large next in the USA. His fourth album, ‘Reckless’, often referred to as one of the most important of the 1980s, sold over 4 million copies at the time and persist to sell now. His 5th album ‘Into the Fire’ went platinum.