Bryan Adams

With his powerfully raspy voice and T-shirt-and-blue jeans classic rock swagger, Bryan Adams is a pop icon who has scored hit after hit, attaining global fame in the 1980s. A rising star in his native Canada beginning in the late '70s, he first made headway with his 1983 album Cuts Like a Knife. However, it was 1984's Reckless that turned him into an international sensation thanks to the hits "Run to You," "Heaven," and "Summer of '69." From that point on, Adams sold out arenas (much like his contemporaries Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp) and broke chart records, as wit...