Waking Up the Neighbours by Bryan Adams

Waking Up the Neighbours, Bryan Adams' sixth album, landed on A&M on September 24, 1991, with Adams and Mutt Lange sharing the producer's chair. The sessions split between two cities, Battery Studios in London and The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, before the mixes were done at Mayfair and Bob Ludwig mastered the tapes in New York, and it sounds every inch of that budget: huge, glossy guitars, stacked gang vocals and a drum sound built for arenas, split between soft-rock swoon and hard-rock bluster.

The swoon won. "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" sat at number one in Britain for sixteen straight weeks, and "Can't Stop This Thing We Started" topped the Canadian chart. The album went to number one in at least eight countries and sold 16 million copies, making it the second-biggest seller of his career. Back home it also stirred up an argument over the rules for Canadian content.

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