Canadian rock star had eight rivals, paper reports..

LONDON — Paul Burrell’s book, A Royal Duty, leaves plenty of open questions about the Princess of Wales where imaginations can run wild. Like, just who were the nine male admirers the butler says were pursuing Diana after her divorce from Prince Charles?
Mr. Burrell stops short of revealing the names of the men who cast themselves as potential suitors to Diana. Instead, he publishes the nicknames he and Diana used to position the wannabe lovers on what the two of them called the “race course.”
Among them, in his words, were “a sporting legend, a leading musician, a novelist, a lawyer, an entrepreneur, a billionaire who ran his own empire, and one extremely famous politician.” Sunday, one of Britain’s tabloids, The People, claimed the musician was Canadian rocker Bryan Adams, “whose music Diana adored,” the paper wrote. No way to prove it right or wrong, of course.
Bryan Adams and Diana have been romantically linked for almost 20 years. In the mid-1980s, Bryan Adams wrote a song called Diana, which included such lyrics as “whatcha doin’ with a guy like him?” and “Diana — Can’t you see you drive me wild, I’ll bet you’re just a reckless child.” Bryan Adams’ co-writer, Jim Vallance, has given interviews in which he said the pair wrote the song as a “light, comedic commentary” on the fairy tale royal wedding.
Allegations of an affair between Diana and Bryan Adams were included in Christopher Anderson’s 1998 book, The Day Diana Died, which contained numerous unprovable details about the conduct of principal figures in the days surrounding the tragedy. Bryan Adams could not be reached for comment yesterday. Marlene Palmer, a spokeswoman for his management company, said he first met Diana, and Charles, at a rock concert in England in 1986.
Whether The People has any new information about Di and Bry is unclear. The identities of the nine men are apparently one step too far for the chatty Mr. Burrell, though he has great fun discussing how each was doing on the race course. And Bryan Adams is hardly the juiciest name The People latched onto. That honour they reserved for “the extremely famous politician,” whom they said tried to “woo her with intimate letters, flowers and gifts.”
The People’s verdict: it was Jeffrey Archer, the politician and novelist who has just been released from jail after serving time for perjury. Or, as The People put it: “The lusty Archer.”

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Princess Diana and Canadian rock star Bryan Adams are said to have had an affair in 1996..

The allegation has been made by the singer’s girlfriend of the time, Cecilie Thomsen.
Thomsen says Adams and the Princess began the affair after she separated from Prince Charles.Her claim comes after former Royal butler Paul Burrell said Diana had nine suitors - including a leading musician.
Adams, however, said Cecilie knew nothing of his relationship with Diana and added that reports of an affair were conjecture. But The Sun says he has refused to deny the claims outright.Thomsen, who appeared in the James Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies, said: “Bryan knew Paul Burrell very well and Paul was part of the inner circle around Bryan and he also introduced him to Diana. The first time Bryan met Diana I wasn’t invited. Ours was a stormy relationship and Bryan’s affair with Diana didn’t make it easier.” Cecilie attended Diana’s funeral with Adams.In 1985, four years after Diana married Prince Charles, Adams wrote a song called Diana. One verse says: “Oh, the first time I saw you was in a magazine, The next time you was walking ‘cross my television screen, I knew right then and there that I had to make you mine, That day he married you I nearly lost my mind.”
Speaking about Diana earlier this year, Adams said: “We met many times and had become very good friends by the end of her life.”

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Composer and conductor Michael Kamen has died in London of a heart attack..

Michael Kamen, the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated composer who fused hard-rock riffs with classical styling in albums for Pink Floyd and provided music for the “Lethal Weapon” and “Die Hard” movies,” has died at age 55.
Kamen collapsed in his London home Tuesday from an apparent heart attack, according to his Los Angeles-based publicist, Jeff Sanderson.
Kamen collaborated with a wide range of artists, from the London Philharmonic to Aerosmith, Metallica and jazz saxophonist David Sanborn.
Although Kamen was classically trained and studied oboe at New York’s Julliard School, the composer’s distinctive long, curly hair and beard made him look more like a heavy-metal guitarist than a classical conductor.
He was known for combining those two sensibilities. Among his most famous collaborations was on the orchestral arrangements in Pink Floyd’s 1979 album “The Wall.” He also worked with the band on the albums “The Final Cut” and “The Division Bell.”
Kamen’s most recent Grammy win came in 2001, when he shared the award for best rock instrumental performance with Metallica for conducting the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in the metal-rock band’s song “The Call of Ktulu.”
He also won a Grammy in 1996 for best instrumental arrangement with “An American Symphony,” which he derived from his work on the Richard Dreyfuss musical drama “Mr. Holland’s Opus.”
His first Grammy was in 1992 for best pop instrumental performance for the theme music to “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.”
In “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” Dreyfuss portrayed a passionate teacher who sacrificed his own ambitions to engage the imagination of his students through music. Inspired by the movie, Kamen established the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation in 1997 to raise money to make musical instruments available to the nation’s children.
Kamen worked with singer Bryan Adams to help craft the movie theme songs “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You” from “Robin Hood” and “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman” from “Don Juan DeMarco.” He received Oscar nominations for co-writing those songs.
Kamen also collaborated with such pop, jazz and rock stars as Sting, Rod Stewart, David Bowie and Eric Clapton.
Kamen was born in New York City in 1948. He started learning to play the piano at age 2 and later added the guitar, clarinet and oboe. Among his parents’ friends were the musicians Huddie Ledbetter and Pete Seeger, and he grew up listening to recordings of music by Bach and Gilbert and Sullivan.
Kamen played folk-blues in a jug band while simultaneously studying oboe at Julliard, and later experimented with techno, disco and rock while writing pure classical music for ballet performances.
Kamen is survived by his wife, two daughters, his father and three brothers.

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Sting and Bryan Adams have teamed up for another movie soundtrack project - to tell the story of an ambitious zebra.

The rockers, who teamed up with Rod Stewart for the theme tune to The Three Musketeers movie in 1993, have written songs for Racing Stripes, an animated film about a zebra who dreams of becoming a race horse.

The film features the voices of Snoop Dogg and Mandy Moore.

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