LOS ANGELES, CA. (UMe Records)-
Bryan Adams celebrates his 25th anniversary as a recording artist with his first two-CD collection Anthology (A&M/Chronicles/UMe), released Oct. 18, 2005. Anthology, the biggest retrospective of his multiplatinum, Grammy- and Oscar-winning career not only contains all of his hits-19 of his 21 pop Top 40s-but includes two new recordings, most notably "
When You're Gone" featuring pop culture idol
Pamela Anderson.
Adams and Anderson, both Canadian-born, first worked together on Adams' 1999 photography book Made In Canada, for which Anderson wore nothing but a flag. The book, also starring other influential Canadian women such as
Linda Evangelista, k.d. lang and Shania Twain, benefited the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. The original version of "
When You're Gone" appeared on Adams' 1998 album On A Day Like Today and featured former Spice Girl Melanie C.
The 36-selection Anthology spans Adams' entire career from 1980 to 2005, also boasting the new song "So Far So Good," which not-so-coincidentally was the title of his first 1993 quintuple platinum greatest hits disc. In addition, the package includes photographs and an essay by renowned music critic Dave Marsh. A bonus in initial shipments is a limited edition DVD of a previously unreleased concert shot on Super 8 and 16mm film at the Pavilhao Atlantico in Lisbon and elsewhere in Portugal in February 2005.
The No 1 hits on Anthology are "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" (No 1, triple platinum, Oscar- and Grammy-winner from 1991's Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves), "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?" (No 1, Oscar-nominated from 1995's Don Juan DeMarco) and "Heaven" (1984's Reckless). The other Top 10s are "Can't Stop This Thing We Started" (gold, 1991's Waking Up The Neighbours), "All For Love" (platinum, with Rod Stewart and Sting, 1993's The Three Musketeers), "Please Forgive Me" from So Far So Good, "Heat Of The Night" (1987's Into The Fire), "Straight From The Heart" (1983's Cuts Like A Knife) and "Run To You" (Reckless).
The other Top 40s are "Summer Of '69," "It's Only Love" (with Tina Turner), "Let's Make A Night To Remember," "Cuts Like A Knife," "This Time," "Somebody," "One Night Love Affair," "Hearts On Fire," "There Will Never Be Another Tonight" and "Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven."
From "Remember," culled from Adams' self-titled 1980 debut, to a new millennium live duet with Bonnie Raitt ("Rock Steady"), the previous unreleased "18 Til I Die" from Live In Lisbon 2005, and "Open Road" from his latest album, 2004's Room Service, Anthology presents the very best of one of the most popular rock singer-songwriters to ever don jeans and a t-shirt.
