Bryan Adams has revealed the origins of how he came to having his “first real six-string” guitar from ‘Summer Of ’69’.
Speaking in a new interview on the I Never Thought It Would Happen podcast, Adams revealed that unlike the lyrics from his classic hit, the instrument wasn’t bought at an American “five and dime”, but at a music shop in Reading in 1970, when he was 12-years-old.
He said: “It’s was an imitation Stratocaster. The story was at the time, my father was working for the Canadian embassy and we were posted around the world and we got posted to Israel and we spent a year there and I took my guitar with me there.
“But when we left, I left the guitar there and I gave it to my next door neighbour. When I got back to Canada I bought another one and I thought why did I do that?”
He continued: “Anyway I got a random email from somebody saying, ‘Hey I have your guitar from 1970, do you want it back?’ And I was like, ‘Woah yeah course I want it back. Thank you.’ Then I never heard anything back. But 10 years after that email, I’m in a club in Berlin and this guy walks to me and he said, ‘Brian, I have your guitar. I have the guitar from your childhood.’”
Adams then explained that the man was a friend of the person who had emailed him years earlier, who had sadly died in a plane crash. He inherited the guitar and wanted to fulfil his late friend’s wish of returning it to Adams.
Meanwhile, the Canadian singer-songwriter is set to bring his ‘Roll With The Punches’ tour to the UK next month.
The nine-show run will kick off with a gig at Newcastle’s Utilita Arena on May 8, followed by concerts in Manchester, Glasgow, London and more, before wrapping up at bp pulse LIVE in Birmingham on May 18. Find remaining tickets here.
