Examples of this statement were in a 2009 interview he gave to Carl Wiser writing for the online music site, 'Songfacts', and in another he gave on television to 'The Early Show' in 2008. His co-writer, Jim Vallance, explained on his website how different lines of the song were influenced by lines from earlier songs by other people.īryan later stated that the number actually referred to the sexual position 69 and to making love. The number '69' in the song title appears to be about the summer of 1969 although it is accepted that the song was not merely autobiographical as Bryan Adams would only have been nine or ten years old at that time. The song 'Summer of '69' by Bryan Adams is clearly about someone looking back on a very happy period in his life. In 1992 Bryan and his co-writers, Michael Kamen and 'Mutt' Lange, received a Grammy Award in the category Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television. This reached number one in the singles charts of at least nineteen countries and remained at number one for sixteen consecutive weeks in the UK.
SUMMER 69 BRYAN ADAMS MOVIE
In 1990 the song's popularity grew in other European countries and it reached number four in the Netherlands singles chart and re-entered the Belgian one at number eight.Ī later globally successful single for Bryan Adams was the 1991 '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You', which was on the soundtrack of 'Robin Hood: The Prince of Thieves', a 1991 movie starring Kevin Costner. It did slightly less well in other countries, but did rise to number sixty-two in Germany and to number twenty-nine in Poland. In mainland Europe it reached the top ten in the Norwegian and Belgian singles charts and the top twenty in both the Swedish and Austrian charts. In fact, when it was re-issued later, it reached the lower levels of the UK singles charts in 2006, 20.Īs well as in the USA, Canada and the UK, Bryan Adams' song 'Summer of '69' was a success in many other countries too.
The song gradually became, and remained, more popular in the UK though and eventually received a double Platinum certification from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales there. It only reached number forty-two on the UK singles chart but Bryan has said that this was because the song was not played on a major radio station in the UK at the time. 'Summer of '69' rose to number five on the US Billboard Hot 100 and to number eleven on the Canadian RPM singles chart. Two tracks appeared on its B-side, one of which was 'Kids Wanna Rock', another track from the same album, and the other was 'The Best Was Yet to Come' from his previous album 'Cuts Like a Knife' (1983). It was first released as a single in June 1985 and was the fourth single to be released from his 1984 album, 'Reckless'. The single, 'Summer of '69' by Bryan Adams, was recorded in the Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver and produced by Bryan and by Bob Clearmountain.
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