Bryan Adams Then: Canadian born Adams began his career as the songwriting partner of Jim Vallence with the band Prism after leaving the band Sweeney Todd. Vallence and Adams wrote songs for several Canadian rockers and notable artists including Loverboy and BTO, Bonnie Tyler and Kiss. In 1981, Adams landed a solo record contract releasing a self-titled album by the end of year which failed to make the charts. The following year, he released You Want It, You Got It, which managed to reach the U.S. charts. Bryan Adams' commercial breakthrough came in 1983 with "Straight from the Heart," a ballad taken from the record, reached the Top 10 before the album Cut's Like A Knife was released. The album also made it into the Top Ten, while the title track peaked at #15; a third single, "This Time," reached #24. Late in 1984, Adams returned with his second Top 10 hit, the mid-tempo, "Run to You," which also became his first British hit, peaking at #11. Reckless, also released in late 1984, became a bigger success, spending 2 weeks as the #1 U.S. album and selling over 5 million copies. Besides "Run to You," Reckless featured five other Top 15 singles, including the number one "Heaven," "Summer of '69," "Somebody," "One Night Love Affair," and "It's Only Love," a duet with Tina Turner. 1987's Into the Fire proved to be a commercial disappointment, it spent 33 weeks on the charts, selling one million copies, and spawning only one Top 10 hit, "Heat of the Night." Now: Adams figured out the power of the movie soundtrack returning in the 90's with "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You," the theme song from Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves. The song became a mega-hit, spending 7 weeks at number one in the U.S. and 15 weeks at #1 in Britain which is the longest stay at number one since Frankie Laine's "I Believe" in 1953. The success of "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" re-established Adams, paving the way for the triple-platinum Waking Up The Neighbours, released in the fall of 1991. Waking Up The Neighbours launched the number two hit "Can't Stop This Thing We Started," the minor hit "There Will Never Be Another Tonight," and two Top 15 singles, "Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven" and "Do I Have To Say The Words?" The following year, Bryan Adams released a greatest-hits collection, So Far So Good, which featured a new track, "Please Forgive Me." The ballad became another Top 10 success, as did the #1 hit "All For Love" - a collaboration with Rod Stewart and Sting taken from the movie The Three Musketeers. In the summer of 1995, Adams had his fourth number one single, "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?," taken from the Don Juan DeMarco soundtrack; the single spent five weeks at number one. Bryan Adams released 18 'Til I Die in the summer of 1996 and followed with On A Day Like Today in 1998.