Who is Bryan Adams?
Updated on 03 March 2008
Wasn't Bryan Adams a rock star? Time to get up to speed on the chart topper's photographic career.
Not to be confused with that-other-rocker Ryan Adams, this rock singer songwriter turned photographer was born 5 November 1959 in Kingston Ontario Canada.
His records have gone multi-times platinum and he's been nominated for academy awards and golden globes for his music.
His 4th album, Reckless, was released on his 25th birthday in 1984. Hits off the record are jukebox standards to this day - Run to You, Summer of '69 and Heaven, to name a few.
But it wasn't until 1991, when his single (Everything I Do) I Do It for You propelled him into legend with a record 16-week stint at number 1 in the UK singles chart.
In fact, despite some high-profile duets with the likes of Spice Girl Melanie C, Barbara Steisand and Bonnie Raitt, it's been hard to associate him with much else than the rousing soundtrack to 'that Kevin Costner Robin Hood film'.
Perhaps now, though, things will change as his photographic career's profile grows.
Adams facts
1. He's a vegan
2. He supports Chelsea FC
3. His song (Everything I Do) I Do It for You spent a record 16 weeks at number 1 in the UK singles charts
4. He's a Canadian but lives in England
5. He's photographed the Queen, Tony Blair, Amy Winehouse and Morrissey
It's not a new development, he's already had his pictures published in, amongst others, British Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bizarre, Esquire and i-D and exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, the London Institute of Contemporary Arts and The Hospital. And now he's also got an exhibition of his photos at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
He's photographed Robert Plant, Joss Stone, Placido Domingo, Celine Dion, Moby, Amy Winehouse, Morrissey and Tony Blair, to name just a few. And in 2002 he was among several Commonwealth photographers to be invited to photograph Queen Elizabeth II during her Golden Jubilee.
This latest exhibition is in support of the Hear the World initiative - for which he is official photographer.
