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The irascible Allen, 66, wouldn’t hear of it. Born in Kingston, Ont., the former Vancouverite now lives in London’s tony Chelsea neighbourhood, when not at his place on the Caribbean island of Mustique, next door to Mick Jagger. Allen dug up the article and was determined to reunite us for a time-lapse interview.

#STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART BRYAN ADAMS FULL#

Twenty years ago, for the launch of the last full Canadian tour, I talked to Adams for a Maclean’s story. I have to schedule tours around christenings and stuff.”īruce Allen is the reason I’m in Paris. Fifty-two years old! That’s the centre of his universe now. “Boy oh boy, I never thought I’d see that. And he has fathered his first child, Mirabella Bunny, who marks her first birthday next month. Adams has developed a second career as a portrait photographer, shooting everyone from a naked Jann Arden to a grinning Queen Elizabeth II. “It’s not cost-effective,” he says, “but it’s not about the money.”īesides, there’s more to his life these days than rock ’n’ roll. In the old days I would have done 20 shows in a row, banging them out in a month.” But Adams will spread his Canadian tour over three months, hitting the eastern provinces and Quebec in April, Ontario in May, and the West in June. I can actually remember where I am now, whereas back then it just folded into a blur. So what has changed? “I’d like to say nothing,” he says backstage in Paris, “but everything has changed. And next month Adams is bringing it all back home with his first full-scale Canadian tour in two decades, a string of 21 shows that will kick off April 11 in St. He’s been touring the world with a show designed to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Waking Up the Neighbours, the album that confirmed him as a superstar. He’s sitting on a massive repertoire of hits, and is not about to let them go stale. No male Canadian singer-songwriter has sold more records than Bryan Adams-some 65 million albums. “It’s like f–king karaoke!” enthuses his veteran manager, Bruce Allen, who’s watching from the edge of the stage-still amazed by the kid who, at 18, vowed he’d be his biggest act ever. You can tell, because Adams often holds back a lyric to let the crowd fill the vacuum. During a two-hour show of wall-to-wall hits, the French fans, singing in perfect English, join in on every number. Now he’s 52, performing the title track at Le Zénith for 6,000 fans. The arena was built in 1983, the same year a 23-year-old Bryan Adams scored his breakthrough with the album Cuts Like a Knife. There’s nothing Old World about Le Zénith, an arena in the shape of a concrete clamshell that sits next to a sculpture of pointless girders in a paved park inspired by a deconstructionist philosopher. We’re in Paris, but you wouldn’t know it. Photo Gallery: Bryan Adams onstage in Paris Le Zénith: Bryan Adams rocks out March 17 in Paris, singing a back-to-back parade of hits

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