27 Facts About Bryan Adams

1. In 1990, Bryan Adams was awarded the Order of British Columbia.

2. In 2017 Bryan Adams released an exhibition called Canadians to commemorate Canada's 150th Birthday, there was a limited hardback catalog released by Steidl.

3. In 2015 Bryan Adams released Untitled an abstract book of images of black sand, by Steidl.

4. In 2011, Bryan Adams provided the cover art for Lioness: Hidden Treasures, a posthumous release by Amy Winehouse.

5. On 14 September 2014, Bryan Adams was the first artist to sing at the Invictus Games organised by Prince Harry in East London.

6. On 18 October 2007, Bryan 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.

7. On 29 January 2006, Bryan Adams became the first Western artist to perform in Karachi, Pakistan, after the 11 September attacks, in conjunction with a benefit concert by Shehzad Roy to raise money for underprivileged children to go to school.

8. On 25 May 2005, Bryan 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.

9. On 29 January 2005, Bryan Adams joined the CBC benefit concert in Toronto for victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

10. Since the 1980s, Bryan Adams has participated in concerts and other activities to help raise money and awareness for a variety of causes.

11. On 21 September 2017, Bryan Adams announced via social media his release of a new compilation album, Ultimate, with two new songs "Please Stay" and "Ultimate Love", on 3 November 2017.

12. On 7 September 2015, it was announced that Bryan Adams would be performing at the 2015 AFL Grand Final, along with English singer Ellie Goulding and American musician Chris Isaak.

13. On 13 July 2014, Bryan Adams presented a live concert on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, Canada.

14. On 30 September 2014, Bryan Adams released a new album titled Tracks of My Years.

15. In July 2012, Bryan Adams was featured as the voice of the lead character of a dog called Jock, in the animated South African film Jock of the Bushveld.

16. On 20 November 2011, Bryan Adams performed "When You're Gone" on the TV show The X Factor in the UK with the remaining acts in the competition.

17. In November 2010, Bryan Adams released the acoustic album Bare Bones.

18. On 27 July 1996, Bryan Adams performed his second sold-out Wembley Stadium in London in front of a crowd of approximately 70,000 people.

19. In November 1993, Bryan 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.

20. In 1993, Bryan Adams collaborated with Rod Stewart and Sting for the single "All for Love" co-written by Adams for the Motion Picture Soundtrack of the movie Three Musketeers.

21. In February 1992, Bryan Adams toured New Zealand and Australia for seven dates—kicking off with a press conference in Sydney.

22. On 24 September 1991, Bryan Adams released the album Waking Up the Neighbours.

23. In 1985, Bryan Adams worked on Roger Daltrey's sixth solo album, Under a Raging Moon, which was a tribute album to The Who's former drummer Keith Moon who died in 1978.

24. The album is Bryan Adams's best-selling album in the United States and was certified five times platinum.

25. In 1978 at age 18, Bryan Adams met Jim Vallance through a mutual friend in a Vancouver music store.

26. In late 1976, Bryan Adams became the vocalist for pub band Sweeney Todd, who had only a few months earlier hit number 1 on the Canadian charts with a song "Roxy Roller".

27. In 2008, Bryan Adams was ranked 38th on the list of all-time top artists in the Billboard Hot 100 50th Anniversary Charts.