Bryan Adams' Quiet Side
Gordon Barr, Evening Chronicle
GRAVEL-voiced Bryan Adams knows he’s on to a winner every time he plays on Tyneside.
Once he opted for stadium-sized shows, when selling 30,000 tickets was easy.
These days, though, he’s content to go for indoor venues and this Saturday he’ll be performing an up- close-and-personal acoustic show at Newcastle City Hall.
Having won legions of fans with best-selling ballads (Everything I Do) I Do It for You and Have You Ever Really Loved, the singer is promising a show packed with acoustic rock.
"I’ve always wanted to show two sides of the same coin," Adams, 44, once told the Chronicle. 
"We all have varied qualities within us and, by doing songs that span my personality, I’m able to give a reasonably good idea of what I’m like.
"I’ve always thought of myself as a second-generation white soul singer, influenced by Mick Jagger and Steve Marriott, and I think that my albums capture a lot of that."
Barely out of his teens when he signed his first contract with A&M Records in 1979, Adams went on to spend the early 80s touring.
He broke into the American charts in 1983, before making it big over here with the multi-million-selling Reckless album, which included hits Run to You, Heaven and fans’ favourite Summer of ‘69.
He made his first foray into soundtrack music with 1991’s (Everything I Do) I Do it For You, which spent four months at No 1.
It was for the Kevin Costner blockbuster movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, filmed on location in the North East.
Adams has scheduled his acoustic dates in between stadium shows in Europe and the US, and this new spin on his classic hits has met with rave reviews from critics and fans alike.
In 2006 he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
He has been nominated for countless Academy Awards, Golden Globes and Grammy’s and last year his handprint was added to the Wembley Square of Fame in celebration of his 25th show at the famed stadium.
Saturday’s special acoustic show at the City Hall will provide a rare opportunity for fans to see Adams as they have never seen him before.
