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Hold up your phone, hang on to your tissues, we're going in: The 40 greatest power ballads of all time

Break out the inflatable guitars, let those smartphones beam like galaxies of stars: These are the greatest, most heart-stirring, most life-affirming power ballads of them all

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“I saw this big mane of hair coming down the hallway. I could hear her saying, ‘Where is he?’ Someone said, ‘There he is.’ And Tina says, ‘Bryan, I loooove this song! I wanna record it!’”: When Bryan Adams and Tina Turner created an all-time great duet

Plus: the classic song he gave to Blue Öyster Cult – which they gave right back!

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“I still think it’s a great lyric. Probably the best I’ve ever written. Those first four lines are the most memorable in my entire catalogue”: The classic ’80s rock anthem and the ’70s hit that inspired it

“That summer seemed to last forever…”

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“The Pink Color In Himalayan Pink Salt Is Mostly Rust”: 61 Cool Facts That Might Surprise You (New Pics)

Think about the most recent interesting thing that you learned about the world. The odds are that fewer people know what you know than you realize. Luckily, there are friendly, top-quality online communities like ‘Today I Learned’ that encourage internet users to openly share all the new knowledge they’ve acquired.…

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Carol Kirkwood thanks audiences for trusting her on final BBC Breakfast show

Kirkwood has been presenting the show’s weather bulletin for 28 years.

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BBC Weather legend Carol Kirkwood retires after nearly 30 years: ‘Thank you for letting me be a part of your lives’

Kirkwood presented her final ever weather report in a ‘BBC Breakfast’ episode featuring video tributes from Keir Starmer and singer Bryan Adams

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Bryan Adams and Pat Benatar announce extensive run of US shows

The latest leg of Bryan Adams' Roll With The Punches tour will feature the returning Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo

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“People have told me they’ve heard it at weddings – with a guy singing it at the organ. Oh God! I can’t imagine what that was like”: Bryan Adams and the ballad that ate the world

The Groover from Vancouver’s record-breaking hit

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: January 19, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from The Sheepdogs, Black Stone Cherry, Bryan Adams and more

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Mel C gets around London on Lime bikes

Spice Girl Mel C "couldn't live without" Lime bikes as they are her main source of transportation around London.

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"There is a huge misconception that this song is about 1969, but it's not": The surprisingly sexual story of the Bryan Adams song fans thought was about innocence and friendship

It turns out Bryan Adams’ hit single Summer Of '69 wasn’t all about childhood, longing and loss

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"It's too indebted to US FM rock to find its own feet and the production is so polite it takes any edge off": Jimmy Barnes strives for solo success on For The Working Class Man

Freed from Cold Chisel, Australian national treasure Jimmy Barnes called in the big guns for his attempted US breakthrough

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"If I didn't have singing I probably would have murdered somebody": Two of rock's great concert films are now free to watch on YouTube

Two acclaimed movies have been made available online thanks to Joe Cocker's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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All of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2025 inductees and how they were honoured by the music world

Outkast, Cyndi Lauper, Soundgarden and The White Stripes were among the acts whose careers were celebrated

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"Like a double bill of April Wine and Lynyrd Skynyrd": The Sheepdogs conjure up breezy classic rock vibes on Nobody But You single

Nobody But You is the first single from The Sheepdogs since the departure of founding drummer Sam Corbett

Guitar World

“Mutt Lange would always make me play rhythm. He liked my feel. I’m technically not very good, but I have a feel that’s intuitive to me”: Bryan Adams says he’s no guitar hero, but believes he’s written songs that cover versions can’t beat

The Canadian songwriter extraordinaire on what he learned from Mutt Lange, how he got his long-sold Les Paul back, why he dug his Rockman out of the basement, duetting with Taylor Swift and the single piece of technical advice he has to offer

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“This guy comes up and I’m thinking, ‘He wants me to sign his guitar.’ He said, ‘I bought your Les Paul years ago. Would you like to buy it back?’” Bryan Adams sold his Summer of ’69 guitar in the ’80s – but it found its way back to him

Adams had a 1980s Gibson Les Paul during his career-defining Reckless era, which he managed to reunite with decades later

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“That’s one of the key things that most people don’t get when they hear the song. But when I sang it with her, we nailed it”: Bryan Adams explains why the only person to do justice to Summer of '69 was Taylor Swift

“We only had one rehearsal, so she knows that song really well,” he says of their 2018 duet

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“The only person who did a version of Summer of ’69 and did it justice was Taylor Swift”: Bryan Adams looks back on the time he crossed Fenders with the world’s biggest popstar on one of his most iconic hits

Adams recalls the time he joined Swift on stage to perform one of his most well-loved songs

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Bryan Adams announces UK leg of Roll With The Punches tour

This news arrives as Bryan Adams embarks on a lengthy run of North American shows, with support from Pat Benatar, The Sheepdogs and more

Evening Standard

Ronan Keating brings out Bryan Adams during Radio 2 in the Park set

Keating, who began his career in the boyband Boyzone in 1993, took the main stage at the Chelmsford music festival on Saturday afternoon.

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"Now in his mid-60s, there's still something oddly teenage about Bryan Adams": Soft rock's Mr Nice Guy returns to familiar ground

Bryan Adams defiantly sticks to his guns on Roll With The Punches

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“They had the arrangement and I went, ‘Oh, this is finally my David Gilmour moment.’ The hair on my arms stood up”: Keith Scott on the making of Bryan Adams’ (Everything I Do) I Do It For You – the record-breaking hit no one saw coming

Scott remembers how a “plaintive melody” from Michael Kamen intrigued Mutt Lange and was shaped into Bryan Adams' biggest, hit, giving Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves the anthem it needed

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“I remember the phone call. He said, ‘Jim, I just wrote this thing. It was for Blue Öyster Cult. But I don't think they're going to keep it…’” The Bryan Adams track that started life as a Blue Öyster Cult song

The guitarist had begged his bandmate not to give the song away, and got his wish in a roundabout way

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Bryan Adams thinks his remarkable UK Singles Chart record will be surpassed

Bryan Adams believes that his record-breaking 16-week run at the top of the UK Singles Chart wth (Everything I Do) I Do It For You will eventually be broken.

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