“Heaven” by Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance wrote "Heaven" in 1983, while Adams was out warming up crowds for Journey on their Frontiers Tour, and you can hear where his head was: it leans hard on the slow-burning drama of Journey's "Faithfully", and it even borrows their drummer, Steve Smith. It turned up first on the A Night in Heaven soundtrack that year before Adams folded it into Reckless in 1984.

Adams sings it and plays piano, with Keith Scott's guitar, Dave Taylor's bass and Rob Sabino's keyboards swelling around him, and he produced it with Bob Clearmountain, who engineered and mixed it too. It's a power ballad that never stops climbing. Pulled from Reckless as its third single, it took its sweet time, then went all the way to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1985, Adams' first chart-topper.

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