Rock star Bryan Adams is excited about coming to Mumbai again. Here is an excerpt from an interview with the rocker by a local daily:

Q: You’re coming back to Mumbai after five years. What memories do you have of the last gig?

A: Actually, let’s talk about the first gig in Mumbai at the cricket stadium. They divided the pitch in half with huge posts.

One side of the pitch had the seats and the people from the city, on the other side of the fence were the members of the cricket club. It was so weird.

Then, someone ran on stage, grabbed the mike and yelled “I thought I’d died and gone to heaven”, then jumped off the stage into the crowd. It was a different kind of evening. (read more..)

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Yes it’s true, Bryan is coming to town!
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KARACHI: The multi-platinum artist Bryan Adams will tour Pakistan for three days during which he will perform at the Arabian Sea Golf Country Club on January 29 to help raise funds for Shehzad Roy’s charity Zindagi Trust.

This was announced at a press conference on Wednesday. Roy, who has made more of a name for himself off stage for his charity work, will be performing alongside Adams. Tickets will be sold for a minimum of Rs 2,500 and Roy said that the maximum price has yet to be decided. (read more..)

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The Life of Bryan

* At 16, he quit school and convinced his mother to let him use the money she had saved for his college education to buy a baby grand piano.

* In 1976-77 he was the lead singer of the band Sweeney Todd. On the band’s recordings, his voice was speeded up so it didn’t sound so raspy.

* During the 1998 Winnipeg Arena concert, Adams made a point of commenting on the venue’s huge portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, saying he had never seen a picture of her smiling. Then, in 2002 Adams photographed the monarch on her Golden Jubilee and his photo, with the Queen smiling, was used on a Canadian postage stamp. (read more..)

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Remembering Bryan Adams has longtime fans in Heaven a few days before rock legend runs Back to You
By Cheryl Binning

ON a rainy August day in 1992, 29-year-old Tom Stumpf went to work as usual at his uncle’s limousine company. He was told his job that day was to pick up a big white van, go to the airport, and transport a band (his uncle wasn’t sure who they were) to Birds Hill Park for a concert.

Stumpf showed up at the appointed time and watched in awe as a blond guy wearing a white T-shirt, jeans and a light jacket approached.

“I couldn’t believe my eyes when Bryan Adams came walking out,” says Stumpf, who is now 42 and runs a Winnipeg transportation company.

“I love his music — I’m a big fan — so it was unbelievable.” (read more..)

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Step right up, folks. It’s time to see the sole Canadian musician capable of writing a tear-jerking chart-topper, flirting with royalty and saving the whales — all while sweatily thrashing around a stage like it’s the summer of ‘69.

Call him a man of many talents — we’ll just call him Bryan Adams.

Juggling a multitude of roles is all in a day’s work for the 46-year-old Vancouver-bred CanRock songster you’ve known and loved for decades. Want him to sing? He can sing. Want him to rock? He can rock. Want him to photograph the Queen for a postage stamp? He can do that, too.

We know it’s true — everything Adams does, he does for you. And because he’s a … (read more..)

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Bryan will stop by ‘Music World’ in the Chinook Centre, Calgary for an instore signing on January 16th. Adams, who plays later that night at the Saddledome, will be on-hand from 4-5 p.m. signing copies of his recently released greatest hits collection ‘Anthology’.

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TICKETS for Bryan Adams’ charity-fundraising Reach Out to Asia (ROTA) concert in Doha have gone on sale at music stores in Qatar. As part of his 2006 Room Service Tour, Adams and his band will perform live on February 1 at Al Sadd Stadium. The concert will include his all-time greatest hits, and songs off his latest CD, Anthology.

All proceeds from the concert will go to the Reach Out to Asia appeal fund, initiated by Shaikha Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani, daughter of Qatar’s Amir. The Charity, founded with the cooperation of Qatar Foundation For Education, Science and Community Development, the Doha Asian Games Organising Committee (DAGOC) and Qatar Airways, aims to extend Qatar’s hand of friendship and help to many countries across the Asian continent, which are experiencing serious difficulties in terms of poverty, inadequate educational and healthcare facilities, homelessness, disease and natural disasters, such as the devastating 2004 tsunami and last year’s earthquake in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.
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Unfortunately due to the sudden death of ‘HH Sk Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum’ on the 4th January, Bryan Adams’ performance in Dubai at the Media City Amphitheatre, has been cancelled on February 2nd 2006 due to the country (UAE) being in 40 days official mourning. Management and Promoters are attempting to reschedule the Dubai show in the coming months.
Keep tuned for more information.
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One of the smartest moves Bryan Adams ever made was to write the song 18 Til I Die.

The “I’ll never grow up” anthem gives the 46-year-old Vancouver superstar carte blanche to continue cranking out the hits he wrote in his younger days without coming off as some desperate aging rocker trying to reclaim his glory years.

And Adams looked anything but desperate last night at the MTS Centre.

His biggest hits may be more than a decade behind him, but he still managed to draw 9,500 people to the arena, making the concert his largest local show ever, not counting his rainy 1992 gig at Birds Hill Park.

“That got cut short because the typhoon came in that night, so we’re making up for lost time with lots of music tonight,” he said. (read more..)

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Take a moment and count ‘em — Bryan Adams must have a hit for every year in his two-and-a-half decade career.

In fact, his recent greatest hits collection, Anthology, has more than 30 of them.

And probably the two biggest of all those enourmous hit songs came together, midway through Adams’s concert Thursday night at Credit Union Centre.

Even before the opening notes of Summer of ‘69, the crowd roared, as Adams gave away the title by insisting the upcoming tune had nothing to do with a certain period of time.

The crowd sang the first few lyrics and they were on their feet, cheering and no doubt remembering a time when they first heard that song, or danced to it, or hit the open road with that song blaring on the stereo. (read more..)

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Blue jeans, white T-shirt, sneakers, guitar, rock ‘n’ roll - that’s Bryan Adams. Even at 47, he still seems philosophically bound to 18 ‘Til I Die, one of his biggest hits.

He hasn’t changed much, sure, but in an era where aging artists like Madonna scrutinize trends amongst 18- to 35-year-olds and Rod Stewart tries to shape shift into a Vegas-like lounge lizard, Adams’s steadfast approach to rock ‘n’ roll is admirable.

Say what you will, the guy’s consistent.

With the rock scene now awash with terms like “emo” and “progressive,” Adams’s back catalogue is refreshingly uncomplicated and straightforward with hit tunes like Run to You, Can’t Stop This Thing We Started, Kids Wanna Rock and It’s Only Love (a duet with Tina Turner). (read more..)

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EDMONTON - Reviewing Bryan Adams presents a bit of a quandary if you have no desire to see the veteran rocker. Short of including Summer of ‘69 as a guilty pleasure, most of Adam’s rather limited selection of unctuous ballads and pro forma roots rockers do not inspire someone raised on slightly edgier music.

Let’s be honest — Adams at his best plays unaffected, no frills rock — sturdy car-radio fodder, all surfaces, glossy in spite of its calculated roughness. At his worst he reduces rock into tired cliches and banal gestures — Bruce Springsteen with the spine pulled out of him.

The Springsteen-lite analogy followed him from the early part of his career, but the part that must hurt the most is the charge of turning adult-oriented rock with the long run of ballads that sent him to the top of the charts and had him working with the likes of Celine Dion. (read more..)

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Now that was a rock show.
A no-bones-about-it heck of a rock show.
Thanks, Bryan Adams, for reminding us how it’s done.
Adams brought his show to a sold-out 6,000-plus audience at Red Deer’s Centrium on Saturday night and went way beyond awesome.
Anyone who has ever seen Adams perform knows he works his butt off and Saturday night was no exception.
But he does a lot more than just work hard, he connects with his audience.
Adams does that in a number of ways, though the main one was that he was his regular old unpretentious self.
Of course he wore his usual simple outfit of T-shirt and blue jeans. This time the shirt was black and the jeans were turned up at the cuff. (read more..)

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CALGARY - Six degrees of good.

There’s really no other way to describe the Bryan Adams concert experience.

Over the course of his 25-year solo career, and over the dozens of times he’s rolled through town, the Canadian arena rock icon always puts on a show that dabbles with the definition of good.
Good, kinda good, pretty good, very good, really good, exceptionally good and, every once in a while, incredibly good.

By his very generic nature, he can never be qualified an extreme, such as brilliant or bad, although his recorded output, especially of late, has often not only broached the latter, but skinny-dipped shamelessly and obliviously in its rank, fetid waters. (read more..)

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Bryan Adams still has what it takes.

Just ask the throngs of eager, CD-clutching fans that packed the Chinook Centre Music World location yesterday afternoon.

At first, it seemed like a typical Monday afternoon at the mall. So quiet, in fact, one wondered if they were in the right place.

Then I saw it. Fans spilling out the doors, holding their memorabilia tightly to their chests.

Every few minutes a cheer would go up from a different corner of Music World as the line, which snaked through the aisles, crept slowly forward. (read more..)

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US rocker Ryan Adams underwent therapy after his last tour because he couldn’t handle fans screaming Bryan Adams’ song titles from the audience. The singer/songwriter famously fought with one cheeky devotee who screamed the other Adams’ Summer Of ‘69 at him during one show and he decided it was time to confront issues he had with having a name similar to the Run To You hitmaker. He says, “I used to go onstage, and I couldn’t hear any of the clapping. I could only hear, ‘F**k you..!’ “I turned that into such a negative thing that it paralysed me. So now it’s not like someone’s not going to shout Summer Of ‘69, but I can choose to not let that ruin my evening.” But Adams still has disdain for his fans: “They’re a bunch of f**king c**ks. They come to my shows just to provoke me.”
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Bangalore, Jan. 18 (PTI): Music lovers are in for treat with international rock sensation Bryan Adams all set to perform live in a concert on February 5 at the Palace Grounds in the city.

The concert would have the international star performing some of the non-stop classic hits from his new album, the career-spanning collection `Anthology’, a release said.

Presented by Lays Latino Style, “Bryan Adams Third Time Lucky Live in Concert” is being produced and promoted by DNA Networks with official credit card partner HSBC and host The Taj Hotels.

Adams will first perform in Mumbai on February 4 before flying down to Bangalore.

Adam earlier was in India in 2001 to promote his album “Best of Me” and followed it up with “India Tour 2004″, including visits to Mumbai,Delhi and Bangalore.
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It’s hard to hold back your emotions, be it his ‘Please forgive me’ or his seductive ‘Have you ever really loved a woman’, the nasty ‘Wanna be your underwear’ or those college memories flooding back with ‘Summer of 69’. Bryan Adams just can’t get enough of this country.

In love with: “I love the place and the people, the streets, the shops and the sights are amazing, I’m really looking forward to this trip,” he says.

A vegetarian and vegan: Bryan has been a vegetarian and a vegan for a long time now, inspiring a whole lot of people to turn into one. “I have been a vegetarian for 16 years and I have great admiration for the people of India who are dedicated to the same philosophy,” Bryan explains. (read more..)

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Adams loves to play and has found his best, most loyal audience in Europe.

Powter, who is psyched to be returning to Canada, toured as Adams’ opening act last summer in Europe.

As the opener, Powter did 35 minutes (“It’s the right amount of time when people don’t know you”) but recently completed a headlining tour of Ireland as his album became increasingly popular.

It was then that his appreciation of Adams grew even more.

“He sometimes will play three hours a night,” he says in wonder. “He did four of those nights in a row. I couldn’t do it.” (read more..)

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OWING to the massive demand for tickets, promotors have added a third Cape Town date to Bryan Adams’s upcoming SA tour.

The concerts are now due to be staged in Cape Town on the 6, 7 and 8 March, in Port Elizabeth on 9 March, in Durban on 11 March, and in Johannesburg on 12 March.

This is Adams’s fourth concert tour of South Africa – he was last here in 1994, 1999 and 2003 – and this time promises to be an even better sound experience.

Spanning over two decades, Bryan Adams has achieved number one status globally, and his career has seen some amazing recordings with other music legends including Tina Turner, Barbara Streisand, Rod Stewart and Sting. (read more..)

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Minutes after the scheduled start time of 8:30pm, 46-years-young Bryan Adams stormed onto stage with his four bandmates to begin their second last concert on the Live Across the Nation Tour. They all appeared in typical Adams style, wearing black tees and jeans and were greeted by over 9000 screaming fans that packed Credit Union Centre on Thursday, January 5. Stage lights illuminated the lively audience as a blanket dropped down to reveal a backdrop of a two-storey tall white guitar imprinted with “Room Service”, the name of Adams’s first single off his latest album of the same name. The set then appropriately exploded with the Canadian rocker’s newest song. The crowd’s energy was mediocre at first, probably expecting Adams to start with a bigger hit, but fans quickly warmed up as Adams continued onto other songs such as “18 ‘Til I Die”, “Let’s Make A Night To Remember”, and “Can’t Stop This Thing We Started”. (read more..)

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Bryan Adams Returns to India for third time.HT Style catches up with the iconic singer.

Bryan Adams will perform in Mumbai (February 4) and Bangalore (February 5).He talks about his fascination with India.

What is it that makes you return to India?
India is fascinating,the people are so real. I love the culture, the simplicity, and the warmth here. Also, my favourite food is Indian and i know more about vegetarian food than any Indian abroad.

Your Latest album, Anthology, is a compilation of your works over the years. Was selection difficult ?
All the songs in the album are my favourites. (read more..)

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Rock star Bryan Adams, set to tour India for the third time with concerts in Mumbai and Bangalore next month, says he is open to experimenting with Indian music.

Acknowledging India’s great tradition of music that has inspired a number of Western musicians including the Beatles and Madonna, Adams expressed his readiness to do something with the country’s music or musicians.

Asked if he had any immediate plan for such a venture, the Canadian rocker said: “Not yet. But I am very open to it.”

Adams, a vegetarian who supports several charities, had a high opinion of Indian audiences based on experiences during his previous tours of the country in 2001 and 2004. (read more..)

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Canada’s hottest music stars will be honoured at the 2006 Canadian Radio Music Awards (CRMA). Presented by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB), the 9th Annual Canadian Radio Music Awards honour Canada’s hottest rising radio music stars. The awards will be handed out at a gala luncheon on Saturday, March 4, 2006, 12:30 p.m. at the Fairmont Royal York Toronto, as part of Canadian Music Week celebrations. Organizers have invited the public to vote for the Fans’ Choice Award via the Canadian Music Week website. The nominees are Bryan Adams, k-os, Simple Plan, Sum 41 and Shania Twain.
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ROCK star Bryan Adams is making a return to Huddersfield this summer.

The Canadian singer will perform at the Galpharm Stadium on Thursday, June 1, on the first date of his European tour.

The date has been confirmed on the star’s official website, although his name has yet to be put to a contract.

Ralph Rimmer, chief executive of the Galpharm Stadium, said he was at a “very advanced stage of agreement with Bryan Adams” over his appearance.

“It would be absolutely fabulous if such an extremely popular artist came to Huddersfield,” he said. (read more..)

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How did you start Photography?
I fell into it.There were lots of things going on in the 90’s that required photos so I started taking photos when people I was working with weren’t available.As a result I did my own album covers while on video sets…then I published some photos in a Canadian fashion magazine that I had taken of Linda Evangelista. From there I did a book of photos of Canadian women to raise money and support for breast cancer. I’m working on another book at the moment for Calvin Klein.

Is there anything that you enjoy shooting the most?
People mostly. I started a magazine in Germany last year called Zoo, which has been my main focus.We are very small but then it’s an art magazine so what can one expect? (read more..)

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Canadian rock star Bryan Adams is set to bring his Room Service 2006 concert tour to Doha next week with key sponsor Qatar Airways offering special show packages for people living and working in the Gulf.

The February 1 concert at Al Sadd Stadium in the Qatari capital is the star’s only Middle East date and promises to be an event to remember.

“We have some great Bryan Adams concert packages on offer which can be bought at any Qatar Airways office or travel agency across the GCC,” said Qatar Airways chief executive officer Akbar Al Baker.

“With just a week to go before the big event, tickets are selling very fast,” he said. (read more..)

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TORONTO (CP) - The following is Music World’s top 10 CDs based on national sales for the week ending Jan. 21.

1 Curtain Call: The Hits - Eminem
2 Back to Bedlam - James Blunt
3 Confessions on a Dance Floor - Madonna
4 Duets: Final Chapter - Notorious B.I.G.
5 From Under the Cork Tree - Fall Out Boy
6 The Legend of Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash
7 Anthology - Bryan Adams
8 Much Dance 2006 - Various Artists
9 Hypnotize - System of a Down
10 The Breakthrough - Mary J. Blige

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Eighteen years ago the curtain rose on a musical phenomenon–The Phantom of the Opera. On January 9th it became Broadway’s longest-running show ever. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, director Hal Prince, producer Cameron Mackintosh, choreographer Gillian Lynne and the original Phantom Michael Crawford joined us for that historic occasion, taking us back, through in-depth interviews, to the creation of an international mega-hit. Also on this morning’s show: a performance by alternative rockers the Barenaked Ladies; Bryan Adams; author John Berendt; New York’s Julliard School’s centennial celebration; and Academy Award-winning animator Nick Park (Wallace and Gromit.) Karina Huber hosts.
Breakfast with the Arts” airs from 8-10 AM ET on A&E on Sunday-morning

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KARACHI: Almost every young person in Karachi laments one thing: we don’t host proper music concerts. Madonna will never come here to gyrate her hips at the National Stadium, Coldplay will not sign copies of their biography at Liberty Books and System of a Down would rather go Down Under than make a pit stop at the PACC.

This is precisely why the Bryan Adams concert on Jan 29 is such a big deal. “The only thing that sucks is that Shehzad Roy is going to open the show,” said an ungrateful A’Level student. Aside from that, it promises to be a memorable gig.

Bryan Adams may not be as big as Madonna or Coldplay but he is a respectable name in the business. I am fond of him because he is a crooner from my days at school and while not all high school students today are big fans, they are still pestering their parents to go. It is not every day that international rock stars come to Karachi. (read more..)

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A CBC televsion crew will be joining the entourage in Pakistan and expect to have a report on Bryan’s visit on CBC News: Sunday Night the same day here in Canada, January 29th. This airs at 10pm on the CBC or at 6pm and 9pm on Newsworld.

They plan to cover the press conference, do a one on one; put a wire on Bryan, travel with him out to the venue, cover backstage, the concert and then come back with him. This will be a true behind scenes look at the show. The Journalist is Paul Workman.
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He fills stadiums around the world, and soon Canadian rocker Bryan Adams will be back in South Africa on the final leg of his Room Service tour.
THE last time Bryan Adams performed in Jozi, he did it in style by welcoming in the New Near. For obvious reasons he can’t do the same when he returns in March, but at least he will still do it in style.

The Canadian pop rock legend is noted the world over for being one of the best live acts around. And he will perform the final leg of his Room Service tour at the Coca-Cola Dome in Northgate on 12 March.

An academic education was not his priority, and Bryan quit school at 16. Much to his parents’ dismay, he joined the rock band Shock, later moving on to the semi successful band Sweeny Todd. (read more..)

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KARACHI: When Canadian rocker Bryan Adams plays the huge Arabian City club in Karachi on Sunday, he will do more than just thrill entertainment-starved teenagers in Pakistan.

The concert is also being taken as a sign that the violence-plagued metropolis of around 12 million people is undergoing a cultural revival after two decades of sectarian, ethnic and criminal bloodletting.

“Adams’s arrival and performance in Karachi is definitely a healthy cultural change and it signifies that moderate people are coming up in our society day by day,” Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid told reporters. (read more..)

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VANCOUVER (CP) - Hitmaker Bryan Adams is set to become the first Western pop star to perform in Pakistan since the start of the war on terror, according to organizers.

The star’s Vancouver-based publicist Marlene Palmer says he may be one of the biggest stars “of his stature” to ever play in Pakistan. Adams will perform in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sunday at the Karachi Golf Club.

He is trying to raise awareness and funds for Zindagi Trust (www.zindagitrust.org). The organization, established four years ago by Pakistani pop-rock star Shehzad Roy, literally pays children to learn.
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Another show has been added in the UK. Bryan will perform in Newcastle on June 6th. In mid July, Bryan heads to back Germany, Switzerland, Malta, Greece, & Cyprus. Cities include Locarno, Cologne, Bremen & Ingolstadt. As of now, dates are still being shuffled around, no venues have been confirmed. These are the only shows being scheduled at this time.
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KARACHI: Canadian rocker Bryan Adams, the first Western pop star for years to perform in Pakistan, said Sunday he feels comfortable in the violence-plagued southern city of Karachi.

“I am here to perform for humanity,” Adams told a news conference on his arrival in the city, where he will stage a charity show later Sunday to raise funds for victims of last October’s earthquake.

The concert is seen as a sign that the city of 12 million is undergoing something of a cultural revival after two decades of sectarian, ethnic and criminal bloodletting.
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Here’s your chance to bid on a beautiful autographed fender guitar and album awards donated by Tommy Mandell, Jim Vallance and private collector Nathan Hodgson. Several other collectible items have been graciously donated by baddies and are also up for bid. Entire proceeds from the guitar goes to it’s current owner, a woman named Kathy who is suffering from breast cancer. Part proceeds from the awards and other items will go to Kathy - the rest of the proeceeds to the Sloan Kettering Foundation, a cancer research facility & hospital that bryan produced last years’ American Women photography book for. The auction runs until February 4th. Auction Is for Breast Cancer Charity and has been authorized by Bryan Adams Himself
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KARACHI, Pakistan — Pop star Bryan Adams is rocking for relief in Pakistan, taking the stage Sunday night to raise money for victims of the South Asian earthquake that killed 87,000 and left millions homeless.

The concert was billed as the first by a major western pop musician in Pakistan since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States.

Adams, best known for hits like Summer of ‘69 and Cuts Like a Knife, arrived in Pakistan’s biggest city just days after the U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory for the country, citing concerns about terrorism. (read more..)

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KARACHI: The ‘violently’ anti-violence Bryan Adams is one of the first really big names to make it to Karachi in a long, long time. The Canadian rocker, who hit it big in the 1980s with chart topping pop numbers such as ‘Summer of ‘69′ and ‘Run to You’ has continued to win fans across the globe. He has also made a name for himself as a photographer and philanthropist. His mischievous portrait of HRH Queen Elizabeth II is now used on a Canadian stamp and his book of photographs of Canadian women with breast cancer ‘Made in Canada’ (1999) helped raise funds for the cause.

Daily Times managed to get a short interview with Adams after his press conference with Shahzad Roy, who he was scheduled to perform with on Sunday night to benefit earthquake survivor children. (read more..)

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KARACHI: Canadian rocker Bryan Adams thrilled 10,000 fans at a concert in Karachi on Sunday, the first big show by a Western singer in Pakistan in decades, to help students affected by country’s October 8 earthquake.

Adams, who performed most of his hits and moved the audience with “Summer of 69″, said he was glad to discover new fans in Pakistan.

“I am here because this city has a special love for music,” the singer greeted his fans at the Arabian Sea Club on the outskirts of Karachi, as hundreds of Pakistani police guarded roads and checked vehicles leading to the venue.

The Canadian rocker said before the show that he was excited to help the victims of the earthquake in northern Pakistan. (read more..)

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Says rockstar Bryan Adams, as he chats with Deepali Dhingra about music matters and more

BT : The current style of rock is all about ‘nu’ metal. What do you think of new-age rock?

BA : It has always been around in some form. Rock never dies, it just gets louder.

BT : Your style of singing has changed over the years from a more personal one to more trendy. Are you trying to woo a younger or a newer audience by doing that?

BA : I do what feels natural to me at that moment in time, nothing is planned.

BT : In your new album Anthology, you have teamed up with fellow Canadian Pamela Anderson for ‘When you’re gone’. How Different was it from singing the same song with Melanie C? Also, how was the experience of working with her?

BA : It was only released in the States for Anthology. The version featuring Melanie C was never released in the States. Pam’s contributions are like any singer, every one has their own qualities. (read more..)

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