The popular icon of the 80s and 90s returns with a repertoire full of great successes, a handful of carols and themes of his new album
There are artists, genres and trends with expiration date, destined for an early extinction regardless of how high or how far they can go or of social networks that can burn. Bryan Adams (Kingston, Ontario, 1959) is not one of them. The Canadian singer and guitarist is that polite and handsome guy who collaborates with charitable causes , never gets into trouble and keeps his pull intact among the public after 40 years on the road. And he has always done well in the photo, renewing just enough to not look old but staying true to its essence: that scratchy voice that serves both classic rock and ballads to the surface.
A popular icon of the 80s and 90s, Adams returns to Spain with the presentation tour of his latest album , Shine a Light , a little twist to that personal brand as indebted to Bruce Springsteen as Rod Stewart. He will perform in Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao and aims to drag new audiences with the collaboration of Ed Sheeran as lyricist of the song that gives title to the album, or the featuring of Jennifer Lopez in That's How Strong Our Love Is , even gets to flirt with the electronic in The Last Night on Earth , but neither does it pretend to fool anyone. It is always the usual Bryan Adams, who, at the stroke of a riff and songs as simple as blunt, has achieved a comfortable seat in the busy second row of the rocky Olympus.
A show full of charisma
In his busy rock star agenda he also has time for what began as a hobby and is increasingly another lucrative way of income: photography. And not only of illustrious colleagues or for fashion campaigns, but with books like Homeless , in which he portrays dozens of homeless people.
But it is at concerts where Adams feels like a fish in the water and brings out the entire arsenal, that charisma and knowing how to be reserved for a select few. As he said in an interview for Metropolis in 2016, the last time he played in Madrid, "being on stage and thrilling people through music is the closest thing to magic I've known." In the repertoire, marked by the most recent songs and classics like Summer of '69 , Run To You or (Everything I Do) I Do it For Love , there is room for a version of I Fought the Law , immortal song of The Crickets which popularized The Clash. The live also has its acoustic part, the solos of its faithful squire, guitarist Keith Scott, and an apotheosis ending with All For Love , the song he wrote with Rod Stewart and Sting.
It is possible that, during the more than two hours of the show, some of the Christmas carol of the recently published Christmas EP , with five Christmas themes passed through the filters of classic rock, the house brand slumber and even the reggae And, like Christmas, Bryan Adams always comes back.
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