Events[link]

456 – Remistus, Roman general (''magister militum''), is besieged with a Gothic force at Ravenna and later executed in the Palace ''in Classis'', outside the city.

1111 – Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia".

1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.

1462 – The Battle of Świecino (also known as the Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War.

1577 – The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.

1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.

1631 – Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War.

1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.

1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.

1776 – The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.

1778 – The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians).

1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1809 – Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.

1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", later to be the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner".

1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.

1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Emperor Norton I" of the United States.

1862 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.

1862 – American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.

1894 – The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.

1900 – Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.

1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.

1914 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.

1916 – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.

1920 – The American Professional Football Association (later renamed National Football League) is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.

1924 – The Border Defence Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.

1928 – The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.

1939 – World War II: A German U-boat ''U 29'' sinks the British aircraft carrier .

1939 – Taisto Mäki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6

1940 – World War II: Following the German defeat in the Battle of Britain, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion indefinitely.

1941 – World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued

1943 – World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazis.

1944 – World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.

1948 – The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.

1948 – The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.

1949 – The Canadian steamship burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.

1957 – Malaysia joins the United Nations.

1961 – The world's first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh.

1974 – Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.

1976 – The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.

1978 – The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.

1980 – After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.

1980 – Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.

1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.

1991 – Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.

1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.

1992 – An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.

1993 – Last Russian troops leave Poland.

2001 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 Attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.

2006 – Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years.

2006 – An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country.

2007 – AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.

2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zucotti Park, New York City.

Births[link]

879 – King Charles III of France (d. 929)

1192 – Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)

1550 – Pope Paul V (d. 1621)

1605 – Francesco Sacrati, Italian composer (d. 1650)

1630 – Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)

1639 – Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)

1677 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)

1687 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)

1688 – Maria Luisa of Savoy, first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714)

1730 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)

1739 – John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)

1743 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)

1771 – Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)

1773 – Jonathan Alder, American settler (d. 1849)

1819 – Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, first President of the South African Republic (d. 1901)

1820 – Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)

1826 – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)

1839 – Ira Davenport, American magician (d. 1911)

1854 – David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d. 1929)

1857 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935)

1859 – Frank Dawson Adams, Canadian geologist (d.1942)

1868 – James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)

1869 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1938)

1874 – Sir Walter Murdoch, Australian academic and essayist (d. 1970)

1878 – Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (d. 1950)

1879 – Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)

1879 – Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian Social Reformer (d. 1973)

1881 – Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)

1883 – William Carlos Williams, American writer (d. 1963)

1884 – Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920)

1890 – Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (d. 1972)

1892 – Hendrik Andriessen, Dutch composer and organist (d. 1981)

1897 – Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965)

1900 – John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)

1900 – Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)

1901 – Francis Chichester, English adventurer (d. 1972)

1902 – Bea Miles, Australian eccentric and writer (d. 1973)

1903 – Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)

1903 – Frank O'Connor, Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966)

1903 – Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (d. 1971)

1904 – Sir Frederick Ashton, British dancer and choreographer (d. 1988)

1904 – Jerry Colonna, American comedian and entertainer (d. 1986)

1904 – Edgar G. Ulmer, Austrian-American film director (d. 1972)

1906 – J.R. Jayewardene, Sri Lankan politician and statesman (d. 1996)

1906 – Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist (d. 2010)

1907 – Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)

1908 – John Creasey, English crime and science fiction novelist (d. 1973)

1912 – Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian (d. 2011)

1914 – Thomas J. Bata, Canadian shoemaker (Bata Shoes) (d. 2008)

1914 – Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician (d. 1996)

1915 – M. F. Husain, Indian painter (d. 2011)

1916 – Mary Stewart, English novelist

1917 – Isang Yun, Korean composer who spent most of his creative career in Germany

1918 – Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)

1920 – Dinah Sheridan, English actress

1922 – Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)

1923 – Hank Williams, American musician (d. 1953)

1923 – Ralph Sharon, American jazz pianist

1925 – John List, American murderer (d. 2008)

1926 – Bill Black, American musician (d. 1965)

1926 – Curtis Harrington, American film director (d. 2007)

1926 – Jack McDuff, American jazz organist (d. 2001)

1926 – Hovie Lister, American gospel pianist (d. 2001)

1926 – Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Jewish Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 2007)

1927 – George Blanda, American football player (d. 2010)

1928 – Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)

1929 – Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver

1929 – Pat Crowley, American actress

1929 – Sil Austin, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)

1930 – David Huddleston, American actor

1930 – Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist

1930 – Theo Loevendie, Dutch composer and clarinet player

1930 – Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut

1930 – Jim Rohn, American business philosopher (d. 2009)

1930 – Thomas Stafford, American astronaut

1931 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)

1931 – Jean-Claude Carrière, French writer, screenwriter and actor

1933 – Chuck Grassley, American politician

1933 – Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)

1933 – Claude Provost, National Hockey League player (d. 1984)

1934 – Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)

1935 – Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)

1936 – Michael Hennagin, American composer and university professor

1937 – Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player

1938 – Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player

1938 – Perry Robinson, American jazz clarinetist and composer

1939 – Shelby Flint, American singer

1939 – David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

1940 – Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat

1940 – Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (d. 2007)

1941 – Stavros Damianides, Greek musician (d. 2001)

1941 – Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman (d. 2005)

1942 – Des Lynam, English television presenter

1942 – Robert Graysmith, Zodiac killer researcher

1944 – Reinhold Messner, Italian mountaineer

1944 – Les Emmerson, Canadian vocalist and guitarist

1945 – David Emerson, Canadian politician

1945 – Bhakti Caru Swami, Indian spiritual leader

1945 – Phil Jackson, American basketball player and NBA head coach

1945 – Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor

1946 – Billy Bonds, English footballer

1947 – Tessa Jowell, British politician

1948 – Karl Alber, German footballer

1948 – Raphy Leavitt, Puerto Rican composer and salsa orchestra leader

1948 – Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (d. 2000)

1948 – John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)

1950 – Narendra Modi, Indian politician

1950 – Chris Heister, Swedish politician

1950 – Fee Waybill, American musician (The Tubes)

1951 – Piet Kleine, Dutch speed skater

1951 – Cassandra Peterson, American actress

1953 – Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM

1953 – Steve Williams (rock drummer), drummer for Welsh rock band Budgie

1954 – Joël-François Durand, French composer

1955 – Koralia Karanti, Greek actress

1955 – Charles Martinet, American actor

1955 – Scott Simpson, American golfer

1956 – Brian Andreas, American writer, sculptor, painter and publisher

1956 – Thad Bosley. American major league baseball player

1956 – Rita Rudner, American comedian

1956 – Mandawuy Yunupingu, Aboriginal Australian musician

1957 – Richie Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)

1958 – Tom Waddell, Scottish former Major League Baseball player

1959 – Charles Lawson, Northern Irish actor

1960 – Damon Hill, English race car driver and 1996 F1 world champion

1960 – Kevin Clash, American actor and puppeteer

1960 – John Franco, American baseball player

1960 – John Bottomley, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2011)

1961 – Jim Cornette, American professional wrestling manager

1961 – Nives Meroi, Italian mountaineer

1961 – Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)

1962 – Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director

1962 – Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese American actor

1962 – BeBe Winans, gospel and R&B; singer

1963 – Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler

1963 – Steven Dye, English musician (Scarlet Party), (The Alan Parsons Project)

1963 – Wendy Northcutt, Author of the Darwin Awards

1963 – Amy Roloff, American reality star

1963 – Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator

1963 – James Urbaniak, American actor

1963 – William Shockley (actor), American actor

1965 – Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer

1965 – Guy Picciotto, American musician (Rites of Spring, Fugazi)

1965 – Bryan Singer, American director

1965 – Kyle Chandler, American actor

1966 – Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer

1966 – Stéphane Rousseau, Canadian humorist and actor

1967 – Malik Yoba, American actor

1967 – Koen Wauters, Flemish singer, television presenter, and actor

1968 – Anastacia, American singer

1968 – Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece

1968 – Lord Jamar American emcee and actor

1968 – Jonn Penney lead singer of Ned's Atomic Dustbin

1968 – Akhenaton French rapper and producer

1969 – Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player

1969 – Keith Flint, British musician (The Prodigy)

1969 – Matthew Settle, American actor

1969 – Steady B, American rapper and emcee

1969 – Adam Devlin, English guitarist and songwriter

1970 – Mark Brunell, American football player

1970 – Jim Conroy, American Voice Actor (Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman)

1971 – Nate Berkus, American television host

1971 – Mike Catt, English rugby player

1971 – Mauro Milanese, Italian footballer

1971 – Adriana Sklenaříková, Slovak supermodel

1971 – Ian Whyte (actor), Welsh actor and basketball player

1972 – Brian Henry, American poet

1972 – Bobby Lee, American comedian

1973 – Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress

1973 – Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer

1974 – Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player

1974 – Mirah, American musician

1974 – Tormod Granheim, Norwegian adventurer

1975 – Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver

1975 – Austin St. John, American actor

1975 – Jade Esteban Estrada, Latin pop singer, comedian and activist

1975 – Constantine Maroulis, American singer

1975 – Wilko de Vogt, Dutch football goalkeeper

1976 – Daniella Rush, Czech pornographic actress

1976 – Peja (musician), Polish rap musician, songwriter and producer

1977 – Simone Perrotta, Italian football player

1978 – Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player

1979 – Akin Ayodele, American football player

1979 – Billy Miller, American actor

1979 – Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)

1979 – Steffen Algreen, Danish footballer

1979 – Flo Rida, American rapper

1980 – Danny Haren, American baseball player

1980 – Oliver Risser, Namibian footballer

1981 – Casey Janssen, American baseball player

1981 – Bakari Koné, Ivorian footballer

1981 – Francis Manioru, Solomon Islander sprinter

1982 – Hope Larson, American illustrator and cartoonist

1982 – Garth Murray, Canadian ice hockey player

1982 – Wade Robson, Australian choreographer

1983 – Jennifer Peña, American singer

1984 – Domenico Citro, Italian footballer

1984 – Mary Descenza, American swimmer

1984 – John Kucera, Canadian alpine ski racer

1984 – Patrick van Luijk, Dutch sprinter

1984 – Eugenia Volodina, Russian model

1984 – De La Ghetto, Puerto Rican reggaeton singer

1985 – Tomáš Berdych, Czech tennis player

1985 – Brendan Clarke, Irish footballer

1985 – Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player

1985 – Mason Raymond, Canadian hockey player

1985 – José Gonçalves, Portuguese football player

1985 – Jon Walker, American musician (Panic! at the Disco)

1986 – Paolo De Ceglie, Italian footballer

1986 – Sanaya Irani, Indian actress

1987 – Paul Huntington, English footballer

1989 – Kate Deines, American soccer player

1990 – Sean Scannell, Irish footballer

1991 – Ryo Ishikawa, Japanese golfer

1994 – Jacob Andersen, Danish student

2008 – Mia Talerico, American child actress

Deaths[link]

454 – Dioscorus the Great, patriarch of Alexandria

456 – Remistus, Roman general of Visigothic origin

1179 – Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)

1322 – Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)

1422 – Constantine II of Bulgaria

1563 – Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier (b. 1526)

1574 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519)

1575 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)

1621 – Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)

1630 – Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)

1665 – Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)

1676 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (b. 1626)

1679 – John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)

1727 – Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)

1762 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (b. 1687)

1771 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)

1803 – Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766)

1808 – Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)

1836 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)

1858 – Dred Scott, American slave who unsuccessfully sued for citizenship (b. 1795)

1863 – Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)

1864 – Walter Savage Landor, English writer (b. 1775)

1873 – Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)

1877 – Henry Fox Talbot, English photography pioneer (b. 1800)

1878 – Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, French adventurer in Araucania and Patagonia (b. 1825)

1879 – Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)

1894 – Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)

1899 – Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)

1904 – Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)

1907 – Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846)

1908 – Henri Julien, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1852)

1908 – Thomas Selfridge, First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army (b. 1882)

1909 – Sir Thomas Bent, Premier of Victoria (b. 1838)

1923 – Stephanos Dragoumis, Greek judge, writer and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1842)

1933 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)

1936 – Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)

1938 – Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)

1946 – Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)

1948 – Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (b. 1887)

1948 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (b. 1895)

1965 – Alejandro Casona, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1903)

1951 – Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)

1966 – Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)

1971 – Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military turned guerrilla leader (b. 1937)

1972 – Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)

1973 – Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)

1980 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)

1982 – Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)

1984 – Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)

1985 – Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (b. 1925)

1987 – Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)

1988 – Hilde Gueden, Austrian soprano (b. 1917)

1991 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)

1992 – Roger Wagner, American choral conductor (b. 1914)

1993 – Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)

1994 – Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher (b. 1902)

1995 – Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)

1996 – Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)

1997 – Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)

1998 – Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)

1998 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian (b. 1922)

1998 – Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (b. 1907)

1999 – Frankie Vaughan, British singer (b. 1928)

2000 – Paula Yates, British TV personality (b. 1959)

2003 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)

2005 – Jacques Lacarrière, French writer (b. 1925)

2005 – Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)

2006 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)

2009 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist terrorist (b. 1968)

2011 – Colin Madigan, Australian architect (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances[link]

Christian Feast Day:

*Albert Avogadro

*Ariadne of Phrygia

*Hildegard of Bingen

*Lambert

*Robert Bellarmine

*Satyrus of Milan

*Socrates and Stephen

*September 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Constitution Day (observed on the previous Friday if it falls Saturday, the following Monday if on a Sunday), Citizenship Day, Von Steuben Day. (United States)

Heroes' Day (Angola)

Operation Market Garden is still remembered with parachuting and dedications on this day. (Netherlands)

External links[link]

BBC: On This Day

On This Day in Canada

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name	Bryan Adams
background	solo_singer
birth name	Bryan Guy Adams
birth date	November 05, 1959
birth place	Kingston, Ontario, Canada
genre	Rock
instrument	Vocals, guitar, piano, bass, harmonica
occupation	Singer-songwriter, photographer, actor, record producer, social activist
years active	1977–present
label	Polydor
website
notable instruments	}}

Bryan Adams, (born Bryan Guy Adams, 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. For his contributions to music, Adams has many awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations, 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television in 1992. He has also won MTV, ASCAP, and American Music awards. In addition, he has won two Ivor Novello Awards for song composition and has been nominated for several Golden Globe Awards and three times for Academy Awards for his songwriting for films.

Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for contributions to popular music and philanthropic work via his own foundation, which helps improve education for people around the world.

Adams was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with the 2,435th star in March 2011 and Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998, and in April 2006 he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at Canada's Juno Awards. In 2008, Bryan was ranked 38 on the list of All-Time top artists by the Billboard Hot 100 50th Anniversary Charts. On 13 January 2010, he received the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award for his part in numerous charitable concerts and campaigns during his career, and on 1 May 2010 was given the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for his 30 years of contributions to the arts.

Early life [link]

Adams was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada to parents originally from England. From his grandmother, he also inherited Maltese ancestry. As Adams' father was a Canadian diplomat, Adams grew up traveling around the world with his parents. Most of his youth was spent growing up between his father's diplomatic postings in Europe and the Middle East. He traveled extensively through his parents' native Britain, as well as a year in middle east , four years plus in Lisbon, Portugal and a year in Vienna, Austria. Finally in 1973, Adams' family returned to Canada to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Music career [link]

Early career[link]

Around the age of 14-15, Adams worked as a dishwasher to be able to afford a proper guitar. He quit the job after a year and started auditioning as a guitarist while rehearsing his own band in his mother's rented basement in North Vancouver. Adams elected to sing until they found a singer, but they never found one, and his auditioning landed him a few jobs, with bands like Shock and Sweeney Todd, who in 1976 released ''If Wishes Were Horses'' with the 15-year-old Adams as the singer. He quit school to play nightclubs and go on the road and upon his return he settled into the Vancouver studio scene, working as a background vocalist for the CBC and working with keyboardist Robbie King, whom Adams attributes as having given him his first paying session.

In 1978, at the age of 18, Adams met Jim Vallance introduced by a mutual friend in a Vancouver music store. Vallance was the former drummer and principal songwriter for Vancouver based rock band Prism and had recently quit that band to focus on a career as a studio musician and songwriter. They agreed to meet at Vallance's home studio a few days later, which proved to be the beginning of a partnership which still exists today. Later in 1978, Adams signed to A&M; records for the paltry sum of one dollar. Some of the first demos written in 1978 have surfaced over the years, most notably "I'm Ready" (recorded for both the album ''Cuts Like a Knife'' and later his release for ''MTV Unplugged'') and "Remember," which was recorded on his first album. Both songs were covered by other artists even before his first album was released. Also recorded during this time was Adams' first single, "Let Me Take You Dancing," which made the Canadian ''RPM'' chart in March 1979 and it's B-Side Don't Turn Me Away, which has never appeared outside of the original 7" and 12" singles. An early version of "Straight From The Heart" was written during this period. The song was later recorded for Adams' third album "Cuts Like A Knife" in 1983 and released as a single, becoming Adams's first top ten record in the US in 1983.

1980s [link]

Adams' self-titled debut album was released in February 1980, and marked the beginning of what was to become a long songwriting partnership between Adams and co-writer Jim Vallance. With the exception of "Remember" and "Wastin' Time", most of the album was recorded from 29 October up until 29 November 1979 at Manta Studios in Toronto and co-produced by Adams and Vallance. The album was certified gold in Canada in 1986.

Adams' second album, ''You Want It You Got It'', was recorded in New York City in two weeks and it marked Adams' first album co-produced by Bob Clearmountain. It was released in 1981 and contained the FM radio hit "Lonely Nights," but it was not until his third album that he achieved international recognition, popularity and sales.

Adams also co-wrote many songs for other bands during this time including "War Machine" and "Rock and Roll Hell" for Kiss, and "No Way to Treat a Lady" for Bonnie Raitt.

''Cuts Like a Knife,'' which was released in January 1983, was Adams' breakout album due mainly to the lead singles. "Straight from the Heart" was the most successful song, reaching number ten on the Billboard Hot 100. Another single, "Cuts Like a Knife" charted at number 15. "This Time" also placed on the Hot 100. Music videos were released for four of the singles from the album. "Cuts Like a Knife" arguably became Adams' most recognizable and popular song from the album. Its music video received heavy airplay on music television channels. The album peaked at number eight on the Billboard 200 album chart and achieved three times platinum status in Canada, platinum in the United States and gold in Australia.

Adams' best-selling album, ''Reckless'', co-produced by Adams and Bob Clearmountain, peaked at number one on the Billboard 200. The album was released in November 1984 and featured the singles, "Run to You", "Summer of '69", "Heaven", "One Night Love Affair", "Somebody", and "It's Only Love", a duet with Tina Turner. All the singles had accompanying music videos and all charted on the Billboard Hot 100 but only "Run to You", "Summer of '69", and "Heaven" peaked in the top ten. "Heaven" became the most successful single from ''Reckless'' at the time of its release on the pop charts, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number nine on the mainstream rock chart. "It's Only Love" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. In 1986, the song won an MTV award for Best Stage Performance. After the release of the album, Adams was nominated for Best Male Rock Performance. The album is Adams' best-selling album in the United States and was certified five times platinum.

In December 1984, Adams and his touring band, which consisted of Keith Scott, Dave Taylor, keyboarder Johnny 'Blitz' Hannah and new drummer Pat Steward, played concerts in Chicago, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia. In early 1985, Adams started a tour throughout the United States, then later Japan, Australia, Europe and at last Canada. After winning four Juno Awards, Adams started a Canadian tour through major cities across that country. Later he headed south towards the American West Coast, culminating with 2 dates at the studded Paladium in Los Angeles.

After the tour in the United States, Adams took part of a grand ensemble of Canadian artists named Northern Lights, who recorded the song "Tears Are Not Enough" for the African famine relief effort. Adams later headed back to Europe for a fifty city concert tour with rock singer Tina Turner culminating in April with his return to London to headline three sold-out shows at the Hammersmith Odeon. Adams began the first leg of his tour entitled "World Wide in '85" which started in Oklahoma and ended in October 1985. Adams later visited Vancouver, Canada, and afterward returned to the American East Coast to play 2 sold-out concerts in New York.

The follow-up album to ''Reckless'' was ''Into the Fire'' which was released in 1987. The album was recorded at Cliffhanger Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia and mixed at AIR Studios in London and Warehouse Studio in Vancouver. This album contained the hit songs "Heat of the Night" and "Hearts on Fire" and hit the Top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic.

In 1989 Adams did backup singing on Mötley Crüe's album Dr. Feelgood and also on Belinda Carlisle's song "Whatever It Takes" which appeared on her Album Runaway Horses.

1990s [link]

Adams' next album, ''Waking Up the Neighbours'', co-produced by Adams and Mutt Lange, peaked at number six on the Billboard 200. It was even more successful on the other side of the Atlantic, reaching number 1 on both big European markets, the UK and Germany. The album was released in September 1991 and featured "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", his second 1 hit single in Billboard Hot 100. This song was featured on the album and a movie ''Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'', starring Kevin Costner and Alan Rickman. The single topped the charts in numerous countries around the world including big markets such as the US, the UK, France, Australia and Germany. "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" spent a record-breaking 16 consecutive weeks at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart. It also achieved record-breaking sales in the US. Canadian content regulations were revised in 1991 to allow radio stations to credit airplay of this album towards their legal requirements to play Canadian music. Adams won a Grammy Award in 1991 for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television.

Adams further supported the album with his tour, Waking Up the World which started on 4 October 1991, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. On 18 December 1991, Adams played two first-ever shows in Reykjavík, Iceland and then performed in the U.S. with a concert at the Ritz Theatre in New York City on 10 January. It was a sell-out in less than twenty minutes. In attendance were music legends Ben E. King and Nona Hendryx. The Canadian leg of the ''Waking Up The World'' Tour kicked off in Sydney, Nova Scotia on 13 January 1992, and wrapped up with a standing room only concert in Vancouver, Canada, on 31 January. In February 1992, he started touring in New Zealand and Australia for seven dates—kicking off with a press conference in Sydney. On 21 February, the tour headed to Japan for approximately a dozen shows in six cities. The tour continued through several European countries in June 1992, including Italy, Germany, Holland and Scandinavia, and in July 1992, Bryan performed for the first time in Hungary and Turkey (where he filmed his video for "Do I Have To Say The Words?"). During the long tour, further singles from the ''Waking Up the Neighbors'' album were released: In the US, the rocky "Can't Stop This Thing We Started" peaked at number 2, and "Do I Have to Say the Words?" reached number 11. In the UK, "Thought I Died and Gone to Heaven" was the most successful single behind "(Everything I Do) I Do it for You" by reaching the Top 10. In September through December 1993, the tour took place in the US. The Asian tour headed to Thailand, Singapore, Japan, and Hong Kong in February 1993, before returning to the US during March through May.

In November 1993 Adams released a compilation album entitled ''So Far So Good'', that again topped the Charts in numerous countries such as the UK, Germany and Australia. It included a brand new song called "Please Forgive Me", that became another number 1 single in Australia as well as reaching the Top 3 in the US, the UK and Germany. In 1994 he collaborated with Rod Stewart and Sting for the single "All for Love" written for the Motion Picture Soundtrack of the movie ''Three Musketeers''. The single topped the charts worldwide. It was followed in 1995 by, "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" (song released with the Motion Picture Soundtrack of the movie ''Don Juan DeMarco''). It became another number 1 in the US and Australia as well as a Top 5 hit in the UK and Germany. Released in June 1996, the album ''18 til I Die'' contained the UK Top 10 singles "The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me" and "Lets Make a Night to Remember". The album peaked at number thirty-one on the ''Billboard'' 200 in the United States and held that position for three weeks. It was more successful in Europe and Australia and reached the top spot on the UK charts for Adams' third number 1 in a row. The album has been certified platinum in the United States and is Adams last studio effort which has been certified by the RIAA. ''18 til I Die'' was certified three times platinum in Canada and Australia and two times platinum in the UK. On 27 July Adams performed at the Wembley Stadium in London in front of a crowd of about 70,000. It was his second sold-out concert there and it is often considered as his biggest concert ever as it went out live to 25 countries and fans from all over the world came up to watch the performance.It also received rave reviews from critics and fans alike. In December 1997, Adams released ''MTV Unplugged'' with three new tracks: "Back to You", "A Little Love" and "When You Love Someone". "Back to You" was the first single, followed by "I'm Ready", an acoustic version of the ''Cut's Like A Knife'' track. The album was a top 10 success in Germany while both singles reached the top 20 in the UK.

''On a Day Like Today'' was released in 1998 and was the first studio album since ''Cuts Like a Knife'' which wasn't certified by the RIAA. However it entered the Top 5 in Germany and was certified platinum in the UK. It generated two British Top 10 singles: "Cloud Number Nine" and "When You're Gone", a duet with Melanie C of The Spice Girls.

After the release of ''On A Day Like Today'' Adams released ''The Best of Me'', a greatest hits collection that includes two new songs, the title track "The Best of Me" and the dance track "Don't Give Up". The album reached the Top 10 in Germany and was certified three times platinum in Canada and Platinum in the UK. The single from the album, "The Best of Me" became a very successful hit with the exception of the US, where it was not released as a single.

2000–present[link]

In 2000, Adams wrote and sang on a song for Chicane's album ''Behind the Sun'' called "Don't Give Up". Even though his voice is somewhat altered electronically, it is still recognisable. An official music video was made of the song, in which Adams also appears.

In 2002, Adams wrote and performed the songs for the DreamWorks animated film, ''Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron''. The songs were included on the film's soundtrack. The most successful single from the soundtrack was "Here I Am", a British Top 5 and German Top 20 hit. The song also gave him his fourth Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Song from a Motion Picture.

In 2004, ARC Weekly released its chart of top pop artists since the last 25 years and Adams came up at number 13 in the chart with four number-one singles, ten top five hits and 17 top ten hits. Six years after the release of ''On a Day Like Today'', ''Room Service'' was released in September 2004. It topped the charts in Germany and Switzerland and peaked at number four in the UK, selling 440,000 copies in its first week in Europe and thus debuted at number one on ''Billboard'''s European album chart. The single, "Open Road", was the most successful single from the album and peaked at number one in Canada and number twenty-one in the UK. In May 2008, the album was also released in the US but charted only at number 134 on the Billboard 200.

In 2005, ''Anthology'', the first 2-disc compilation was released, containing two new tracks. The US release features a new version of "When You're Gone", a duet with Melanie C. Also in 2005, Adams re-recorded the theme song for the second season of Pamela's Fox sitcom ''Stacked''.

In 2006, Adams wrote and performed the theme song "Never Let Go" which was featured in the closing credits of the film ''The Guardian'' starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher. Adams also co-wrote the song "Never Gonna Break My Faith" for the film ''Bobby''. The song was performed by the R&B; singers Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige and earned him a Golden Globe Nomination in 2007.

Adams released his eleventh album internationally on 17 March 2008. It was appropriately called ''11''. The album was released in the US exclusively at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club retail stores on 13 May 2008. The first single released from the album was "I Thought I'd Seen Everything". Adams did an 11-day, 11-country European acoustic promotional tour to kick off the release of the album. The album debuted at number one in Canada (making it his first album to reach that position since ''Waking Up the Neighbours'' in 1991) as well as reaching number two in Germany. In the United States, the album charted at number 80. In May 2009, Bryan Adams announced on his Twitter account that he has started writing and recording a new album in Paris. Bare Bones is certified Gold in India.

Adams was one of the four musicians who were pictured on the second series of the Canadian Recording Artist Series to be issued by Canada Post stamps on 2 July 2009. The total estimated number of Bryan Adams stamps that were printed is one and one-half million. In December 2009, Adams wrote, produced and performed the song "You've Been a Friend to Me" for the Disney film ''Old Dogs''.

In February 2010 he released "One World, One Flame" – a track used as a theme song by the German TV Station ARD for their Olympic coverage of Olympic Games in Vancouver.

On 12 February 2010, Adams performed a duet with Nelly Furtado. The song was called "Bang the Drum" and was co-written with Jim Vallance for the opening ceremony for the 2010 Winter Olympics Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, in front of 60,000 spectators at BC Place Stadium.

Adams performed at a party that Wayne Gretzky and Jaromír Jágr attended during Olympics, this brought all three together once again, following Gretzky's final game in 1999 at Madison Square Garden, when Gretzky then played for the New York Rangers and Jagr was with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Adams then sang the Canadian national anthem and ad-libbed a line to acknowledge Gretzky's departure, singing, "We're gonna miss you Wayne Gretzky."

Adams was one of several well known Canadian musicians to visit Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at his official residence. Originally the visit was meant to be Adams's plea to the Prime Minister to change the archaic copyright laws (http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/03/straight-from-the-heart/), instead Harper turned it into a photo op for himself and an informal "jam session". His latest album, Bare Bones, has been certified gold in India, and he thanked all his Indians fans for giving him such support.

On 19 February 2011 Bryan Adams and his band played in Kathmandu, Nepal making him the first ever international artist to rock Nepal which was organized by ODC Network (P) LTD. Bryan Adams performed at the opening ceremony of ICC World Cup Cricket 2011 on 17 February in Dhaka, Bangladesh and also performed in a solo concert in the next day.

On 14 March 2011, Adams announced that he and co-founder of his foundation and girlfriend, Alicia Grimaldi, were expecting a baby and on 22 April 2011, Grimaldi gave birth to a daughter, Mirabella Bunny.

On 10 September 2011, Taylor Swift covered Bryan Adams' song Summer of 69 at her concert at ''Rogers Arena'' in Vancouver. On 19 November 2011, Bryan recorded the music video for "Tonight In Babylon" in Southwark, London. On 20 November 2011, he performed on the UK ''X Factor'' with the remaining acts in the competition.

On 31 January 2012, Adams announced a 20-date concert tour across Canada between April and June, to be followed by a new studio album expected to be released late in the year.

Social activism[link]

Most of Adams' philanthropic activity is dedicated to his foundation "The Bryan Adams Foundation", which aims to advance education and learning opportunities for children and young people worldwide, believing that an education is the best gift that a child can be given. The foundation is mostly funded by his photographic activities.

Since the 1980s, Adams has participated in concerts and other activities to help raise money and awareness for a variety of causes. His first high profile charity appearance came in 1985 when he opened the US transmission of Live Aid from Philadelphia. In June of the next year, Adams participated in the two-week Amnesty International "A Conspiracy of Hope" tour alongside Sting, U2 and Peter Gabriel. He performed the Pink Floyd songs ''What Shall We Do Now?'' and ''Young Lust'' during the performance of ''The Wall'', and then joined Waters, Joni Mitchell, Cyndi Lauper, Van Morrison, Paul Carrack and others to perform Waters' "The Tide Is Turning" to close the concert. His version of ''Young Lust'', peaked at number 7 at Mainstream Rock Tracks.

During his tours of 1992-1994, Adams successfully campaigned for the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary with Greenpeace Chairman David McTaggart. The two of them distributed over 500,000 postcards at concerts around the world encouraging people to write to politicians of countries blocking the vote, encouraging them to vote ''yes'' for the creation of the sanctuary at the meetings of the International Whaling Commission. IWC officially created the sanctuary on 26 May 1994.

On 24 April 1993, Adams joined Farm Aid VI alongside Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Ringo Starr.

On 29 January 2005, Adams joined the CBC benefit concert in Toronto for victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Twenty years after performing at Live Aid in the USA, Adams played at Canada's Live 8 show in Barrie, Ontario. Later that year, he performed in Qatar and raised £1.5M ($2,617,000) from the concert. He also auctioned a white Fender Stocaster guitar signed by many of the world's prominent guitarists. The guitar raised a total of 3.7 million US dollars for charity and thus set a record as the world's costliest guitar. The money went to Qatar's "Reach Out to Asia" campaign to help the underprivileged across the continent. Money raised also went to some of his own projects like rebuilding a school in Thailand and building a new sports center in Sri Lanka, both of which had been devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami.

On 29 January 2006, Adams became the first Western artist to perform in Karachi, Pakistan after 11 September attacks, in conjunction with a benefit concert by Shehzad Roy to raise money for underprivileged children to go to school. Some of the proceeds of that concert also went to victims of the 2005 Pakistan earthquake.

On 18 October 2007, Adams was billed to perform in Tel Aviv and Jericho as part of the OneVoice Movement concerts, hoping to aid in solving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

Adams supports the animal rights group PETA (People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals) by shooting photos for them and writing letters. He's written to the CEO of KFC restaurants in Canada in November 2007, asking them to become leaders in using more modern and more humane methods of killing chickens. Adams has been a vegan since 1989 and was also a nominee for PETA's "Sexiest Vegetarians of the Year".

On 25 May 2005, Adams raised £1.3M with cousin Johnny Armitage, from a concert and auction entitled Rock by the River for the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. On 15 May 2006, Adams returned to London to attend the Hope Foundation's event (hosted by designer Bella Freud), helping to raise a portion of the £250,000 to support the Palestinian refugee children. The following June, he offered individuals from the public the chance to bid to sing with him live in concert at three different charity auctions in London. Over £50,000 was raised with money going to the NSPCC, Children in Need, and the University College Hospital. On 28 February 2008 he appeared in One Night Live at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada with Josh Groban, Sarah McLachlan, Jann Arden and RyanDan in aid of the Sunnybrook Hospital Women and Babies Program.

To support the peace in Georgia, Adams played a special outdoor concert in Tbilisi, on 19 September 2008.

He played at The Royal Albert Hall in aid of the Born Free Foundation at "Wild and Live" on 14 November 2009. His foundation raised £170,000 for Kids Company, a UK based charity that helps underprivileged and abused children in London, England.

As a photographer [link]

Adams has had his photographs published in British Vogue, L'uomo Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, Interview magazine and i-D, among others. His other photographic efforts include founding Zoo Magazine, the fashion/art magazine based in Berlin, Germany which he shoots for regularly. On 1 June 2005, Calvin Klein published a book of his photos in the United States entitled ''American Women''; proceeds from this book go to breast cancer research for programs at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Flare Magazine in Canada released a similar book of photos called ''Made In Canada'' in December 1999. Both these books were dedicated to his friend Donna, who died of the disease.

As a photographer, Adams has worked with many of his musical peers, including Sting, Shania Twain, Mick Jagger, Arcade Fire, Ray Charles, Tina Turner, Rod Stewart, Robert Plant, Take That, Joss Stone, Plácido Domingo, Sarah McLachlan, Celine Dion, Billy Idol, Moby, Lindsay Lohan, Amy Winehouse, t.A.T.u., Annie Lennox, Peter Gabriel, Bryan Ferry, Lenny Kravitz, Die Antwoord, and Morrissey to name a few. On 27 November 2000 Adams played onstage with The Who at the Royal Albert Hall. A DVD of the concert was issued. Adams photographed the band and his photos appear in the DVD booklet.

In 2002, Adams was invited, along with other photographers from the Commonwealth, to photograph Queen Elizabeth II during her Golden Jubilee; one of the photographs from this session was used as a Canadian postage stamp in 2004 and again in 2005 (see Queen Elizabeth II definitive stamp (Canada)), another portrait of both Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip is now in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Adams supports the ''Hear the World'' initiative as a photographer in its aim to raise global awareness for the topic of hearing and hearing loss.

He photographed Michael J. Fox and Tatjana Patitz in the 2011 Carl Zeiss AG company calendar in New York City in the summer of 2010. The focus was about the size difference of the subjects in a comedic presentation.

His photographic exhibitions include:

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 1999

McCord Museum, Montreal 2000

Saatchi Gallery, London 2000

Photokina, Köln (Cologne), Germany 2001

ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 2004

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 2004

Calvin Klein, NYC, Dallas, Paris 2005

Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London 2005-06

Il Tempio Di Adriano, Rome, Italy, July 2006

Photokina, Köln (Cologne), Germany, September 2006

Leica Gallery, Vienna, Austria, November 2006

Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 2006

H.Stern exhibition, São Paulo, Brazil, March 2007

PhotoEspana, Madrid, Spain, Fotografos Insospechados (Unsuspected Photographers) Mickey Rourke photographs, May–July 2007

Nunnington Hall, North Yorkshire, England, May–June 2007

401 Projects, New York City, September–November 2007

The Hospital, Covent Garden, London, England, November 2007 (Modern Muses)

The National Portrait Gallery, London, England, February–May 2008 (Modern Muses)

Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany, May 2008 (Photos of the German National Football Team)

14th Street Gallery, New York City, May 2008 (Hear The World) (plus other exhibitions in Berlin and Zurich with the same show)

Saatchi Gallery, London, July 2009 (Hear The World)

Calvin Klein American Women 2010, New York City, September 2010

Discography[link]

Studio albums

''Bryan Adams'' (1980)

''Bryan Adams Hasn't Heard of You Either'' (1981)

''Cuts Like a Knife'' (1983)

''Reckless'' (1984)

''Into the Fire'' (1987)

''Waking Up the Neighbours'' (1991)

''18 til I Die'' (1996)

''On a Day Like Today'' (1998)

''Room Service'' (2004)

''11'' (2008)

Live albums

''Live! Live! Live!'' (1988)

''MTV Unplugged'' (1997)

''Live at the Budokan'' (2003)

''Live in Lisbon'' (2005)

''Bare Bones'' (2010)

Compilation albums

''Hits On Fire'' (Japan only 1988)

''So Far So Good'' (1993)

''The Best of Me'' (1999)

''Anthology'' (2005)

''Icon'' (USA only 2010)

Soundtrack albums

''Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron'' (2002)

''Colour Me Kubrick'' (2005)

Awards[link]

In addition to his success at the Junos and Grammys and other music awards, Adams was also nominated for his fifth Golden Globe in 2007 for songwriting on the film ''Bobby'' which was sung by Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige, and has been nominated three times for Academy Awards for writing music in film.

File sharing lawsuit[link]

"Somebody" was one of 24 songs in the first file-sharing copyright infringement lawsuit brought by major record labels in the United States to be tried by a jury.

References [link]

External links [link]

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name	Keep It Together
type	Album
artist	Guster
cover	Keepittogether.jpg
released	June 24, 2003
recorded	2001—2003
genre	Alternative rock
length	48:44
label	Palm, Reprise
producer	Roger Moutenot and Ron Aniello
last album	''WBR Sessions''(2003)
this album	''Keep It Together''(2003)
next album	''Live 09/04/03 Knoxville, TN''(2003) }}

''Keep It Together'' is an album by the band Guster released in June 2003. The album was recorded from 2001 to 2003 in Bearsville, New York, New York City, Burbank, California, and Shokan, New York. This is the first album by Guster that features Brian Rosenworcel on kit drums instead of hand percussion. ''Keep It Together'' went through several working titles, including ''Bitch Magic'', ''Olympia Dukakis'' and ''Come Downstairs & Say Hello''.

Joe Pisapia contributed guest vocals on "Jesus on the Radio." Just months after the release of the album, he became the new member of the band.

The song "I Hope Tomorrow Is Like Today" features Ben Kweller on vocals.

Track listing[link]

#"Diane" – 3:46 #"Careful" – 3:42 #"Amsterdam" – 3:37 #"Backyard" – 2:55 #"Homecoming King" – 3:37 #"Ramona" – 3:06 #"Jesus on the Radio" – 2:17 #"Keep It Together" – 3:43 #"Come Downstairs and Say Hello" – 5:16 #"Red Oyster Cult" – 3:27 #"Long Way Down" – 4:34 #"I Hope Tomorrow Is Like Today" – 3:22 #"Silence" – 0:30 #"Two at a Time" (hidden track – 4:57)

Charts[link]

Album - Billboard (North America)

! Year	! Chart	! Position
2003	The Billboard Top 200

Singles - Billboard (North America)

! Year	! Single	! Chart	! Position
		Adult Top 40
	Adult Top 40

Song facts[link]

"Jesus on the Radio" - When the band plays the song live, they often play it "unplugged", without any instruments or microphones plugged in.

"Keep It Together" - The song can be heard at the end of the Season 1 The O.C. episode The Rescue.

"I Hope Tomorrow Is Like Today" - The song can be heard during the film Wedding Crashers, when John and Jeremy "break up".

See also[link]

The Meowstro Sings - Guster's Keep It Together

References[link]

Category:Guster albums Category:2003 albums

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