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Bryan Adams
Def Leppard And Bryan Adams Bring Major League Rock ‘N Roll To America’s Minor League Baseball Parks This Summer On Cross-Country “Rock ‘N Roll Double-Header” TourThis summer, Def Leppard and Bryan Adams will give the phrase “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” a whole new meaning as they co-headline the Rock ‘N Roll Double-Header Tour. Two of the most popular rock acts to ever take the stage, they will team up for the first time and perform at 26 minor league baseball stadiums. The rock ‘n roll season opens June 1st in Portland, OR at the home of the Beavers, then travels down the West Coast and through Texas before heading to the East Coast and into the Midwest where it will end the season August 10th in Lansing, MI, at the home of the Lugnuts. In each park, the stage will be set up in the outfield and fans can either bring a blanket to sit on the field or take a seat in the stands. All concerts take place on non-game days. Tickets for some markets go on sale as soon as March 12. Bryan Adams and Def Leppard, combined, have sold more than 100,000,000 albums worldwide. Each made their album debut in 1980--and 25 years later they are still hitting homeruns as each releases a new album in 2005. Def Leppard’s place in music history? Only five rock groups can claim two original albums selling 10,000,000+ copies each in the U.S.: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Van Halen and Def Leppard. The British band’s blockbuster Pyromania hit #2 and 10 times platinum; Hysteria soared even higher--#1 and 13 times platinum--led by the #1 single “Love Bites.” The retrospective Vault has sold more than 7,000,000 copies worldwide. Now Def Leppard - Rock Of Ages: The Definitive Collection (Mercury/UMe), to be released May 17, 2005, marks the band’s biggest-ever “best of” album and the first two-CD set in the group’s phenomenal career featuring the newly recorded single, “No Matter What” (originally recorded by Badfinger). Bryan Adams is one of the world’s most highly acclaimed musicians whose career has spanned more than three decades. This spring will see the release of Adams' 14th CD, Room Service, which debuted at No. 1 on the European Top 100 Album Chart! Adams' meteoric rise on the charts began when his album, Cuts Like A Knife landed in the Top 10. This was soon followed by the #1 charted album Reckless! With record sales in excess of 60 million worldwide, Adams’ career has taken him around the world countless times as rock fans fill arenas and festivals where ever he appears. Constantly in demand, the celebrated rocker is on the road over 150 days a year playing rock n’ roll favorites (“Summer of 69”, “Run To You”, “18 ‘Til I Die”, “It’s Only Love”, “Somebody”, “The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You”) to sold out audiences on six continents. Holder of the record for the longest running #1 hit in the history of the British charts (16 weeks), Adams’ has had 4 #1 singles as well as racked up an impressive array of Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, a Grammy Award, American Music Awards, Juno Awards (Grammy equivalent in Canada) and ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards. An accomplished photographer, Adams’ current body of work will soon be seen in his new book, Calvin Klein - American Women, scheduled to debut this spring. Details on ticket sale dates for the Rock ‘N Roll Double-Header Tour will be available locally. All shows begin at 6:30 p.m.; the gates open approximately one hour in advance. The base ticket price is $45 (plus applicable service charges). For each paid adult, one child under 12 will be admitted for free. Dates subject to change without notice: Date City Ballpark (Team) June 1 Portland, OR PGE Park (Beavers) 3 San Jose, CA Municipal Stadium (Giants) 4 Fresno, CA Fresno Grizzlies Stadium (Grizzlies) 5 San Bernardino, CA Arrowhead Credit Union Park (Inland Empire 66ers) 7 Mesa, AZ HohoKam Park (Sidewinders) 8 El Paso, TX Cohen Stadium (Diablos) 10 Oklahoma City, OK SBC Bricktown Ballpark (RedHawks) 11 Ft. Worth, TX LaGrave Field (Cats) July 1 Camden, NJ Campbell’s Field (RiverSharks) 2 Lancaster, PA Clippers Magazine Stadium (Barnstormers) 3 Wappingers Falls, NY Dutchess Stadium (Renegades) 5 Lakewood, NJ FirstEnergy Park (Blueclaws) 6 Brockton, MA Campanelli Stadium (Rox) 8 Aberdeen, MD Ripken Stadium (Rock Cats) 9 Brooklyn, NY KeySpan Park (Cyclones) 10 Rochester, NY Frontier Field (Red Wings) 29 St. Paul, MN Midway Stadium (Saints) 30 Schaumburg, IL Alexian Field (Flyers) 31 Davenport, IA John O’Donnell Stadium (Swing) August 2 Lincoln, NE Haymarket Park (Salt Dogs) 3 Kansas City, KS Community America Ballpark (T-Bones) 5 South Bend, IN Coveleski Stadium (Silver Hawks) 6 Eastlake, OH Eastlake Stadium (Captains) 7 Charleston, WV Appalachian Power Park (Alley Cats) 9 Dayton, OH Fifth Third Field (Dragons) 10 Lansing, MI Oldsmobile Park (Lugnuts) Promoting the Rock ‘N Roll Double-Header Tour is Chicago-based Jam Productions, three-time winner of Pollstar Magazine’s award for Independent Promoter of the Year. Jam is the largest volume independent concert promoter in the country and was the producer of last year’s Bob Dylan & Willie Nelson tour of minor league ballparks—honored by Pollstar as the year’s Most Creative Tour Package. 
AUDIO STREAMS- “This Side of Paradise”Windows: “This Side of Paradise” (low) “This Side of Paradise” (high) Real: “This Side of Paradise” (low) “This Side of Paradise” (high) Biography – Bryan Adams – 2005 With his distinctive vocals and award winning songwriting skills, Canadian musician Bryan Adams’ name remains one of the most recognized of our time. This spring he releases his 14th CD - Room Service. Produced by Adams, Room Service was largely recorded in hotel rooms and backstage while on tour throughout Europe. Upon its release in the fall of 2004, the album debuted at No. 1 on the European Top 100 album chart. The first US single from the album is “This Side of Paradise”. “The world just flies by and you don't have any control over it - it just happens - all you can really hope for is some constant to hold on to,” says Adams. Recorded in Milan, “Why Do You Have to be so Hard to Love” shows Adams’ voice off at its best. “Open Road” and “Room Service” have a disarming freshness with a hint of yesterday while “I Was Only Dreamin” recorded in Paris features a stirring arrangement by Bryan’s long-time collaborator/composer Michael Kamen, who died in 2003. The 11 tracks on Room Service are quintessential Bryan Adams. Adams career was launched with the release of his self-titled debut album Bryan Adams in 1980 on A&M Records, soon to be followed by his second album, You Want It, You Got It, released a year later. Adams’ jibbed at how difficult it was to get heard back then, by originally titling the album, “Bryan Adams Hasn’t Heard Of You Either” but it was rejected by the label. The first single "Lonely Nights" became his first Hot 100 entry at No. 84 peaking at No. 3 on the mainstream rock chart. His third album, Cuts Like a Knife released in 1983, broke Adams in the United States and featured two smash songs, “Straight From The Heart” and the title track. MTV had just started that year and “Cuts Like A Knife” was one of the first videos ever played. Adams’ fourth album Reckless was released on his 25th birthday, November 5, 1984. The single "Run to You" reached the Top Ten, followed by no less than five huge singles - "Somebody", "Heaven", "Summer of '69", "One Night Love Affair", and a duet with Tina Turner, "It's Only Love". One of the highlights that year included being the first artist to be broadcast from the American side of the Live Aid concert from Philadelphia on July 13th. “Into the Fire” was released in March of 1987, prefaced by the single "Heat of the Night," which became Adams' fifth Top Ten hit in the U.S. One of the concerts that year, in Werchter, Belgium, was filmed for a television special, “Bryan Adams: Live in Belgium”. It was later packaged into his next CD, Live! Live! Live! In 1991, Waking Up the Neighbours was released and Adams once again hit the road – this time until July of 1993. The album featured two Top Ten hits "Can't Stop This Thing We Started" and "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You". Before it finished running its course there would be three more Top 40 hits, "There Will Never Be Another Tonight", "Do I Have to Say the Words?" and "Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven". Waking Up the Neighbours also earned Adams a Grammy nomination and his first Academy Award nomination. His record company released a hits compilation, So Far So Good, in November 1993 featuring the hit song "Please Forgive Me". Then came the number one theme song for the movie The Three Musketeers, "All for Love", recorded with Rod Stewart and Sting in January of 1994. In 1994, Bonnie Raitt invited Adams to perform on her live album Road Tested with a song he had written for her called "Rock Steady". At the beginning of 1996 Adams released a new album 18 'Til I Die. The album featured the flamenco-tinged "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" from the Johnny Depp/Marlon Brando film Don Juan DeMarco. Adams was rewarded with yet another No. 1 hit, as well as a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and his second Oscar nomination for Best Song. MTV released Adams’ “Unplugged” concert in the fall of 1997, and his next studio album, “On a Day Like Today” followed in October 1998. In November 1999, Adams issued a second hits compilation, The Best of Me and then in the spring of 2002 he collaborated with Hans Zimmer on his first full-length song score for a film, the animated DreamWorks feature Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. The soundtrack earned Adams and Zimmer a Golden Globe Nomination for their collaboration. Adams has released two books of photography; Made in Canada, published in 1999 and American Women (2005) with Calvin Klein. Both books are being sold in aid of breast cancer research and awareness. Aside from his most recent album you will also find new Adams’ songs on the forthcoming film “Colour Me Kubrick” (2005) and on “Racing Stripes” (2005) released earlier this year. ~May 2005 Post your own Music Reviews here |
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