Lyrics christmas time bryan adams series#

What is the back story about how that song was conceived and written? What inspired it? Please take us back to when the song was written.

Q: Your first big hit (outside of Canada) was the title track to the 1983 album Cuts Like a Knife. Over those next eleven years, the team of Jim Vallance and Byran Adams were quite productive releasing three platinum-selling albums featuring nine singles which reached the Top 15 of the Billboard Hot 100. We 'clicked' right from the start, and we didn't stop for eleven years. And another song the next day, and another one the day after that. We got together a week later and wrote a song the first day. Unemployed but definitely not unambitious! He had incredible energy and enthusiasm. Jim: I met Bryan in a music store in Vancouver, in January 1978. Q: When and how did you meet Bryan Adams? How did you two end up forming a songwriting partnership? If there's a project, like a film or an album, I'm on it! Give me a project and a deadline. As far as inspiration, I'm very 'deadline driven'. Sometimes you start with a title, sometimes it's a fragment of lyric or a bit of melody. Q: Do you use a certain process every time when writing songs? Does the melody come first or the lyrics? Do you start with a song title or end with a song title? Where does inspiration come from? I had dinner with him a few years ago, and I asked lots of questions about Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. He's very kind and patient, answering my endless questions about his work with the Rolling Stones. Years later I became friends with Andrew. Names like George Martin, Eddie Kramer, Andrew Loog Oldham. I used to read all the 'small print' on the album sleeves to see who was behind the music. I'd move my drum kit from room to room in our house, trying different sounds. I had a cheap tape recorder and I loved experimenting. So I taught myself guitar and drums and I started writing songs, very simple and primitive at first.

That was it! At that very moment, I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Then, in February 1964 I saw the Beatles on television. I wasn't the least bit interested in music. Jim: When I was young, age 10 or 11, I was into comic books and sports.

Q: When and how did you get your own start in the music industry and later a career of writing songs for other artists to perform? Find out a little about him, his hits with Bryan Adams and much more as we get on to some selections from my interview with Jim Vallance. His songs have sold millions and millions of copies, have been played on the radio countless times and he has received the Juno award for Composer of the Year four times. Vallance co-wrote almost all of Adams' big '80s hits and as well as several other hits for other artists during that decade and later. You might not recognize the name, but he is a Canadian musician who is probably best known for his work as the songwriting partner of Bryan Adams. This time that awesomeness is Jim Vallance. Again, lucky for me (and hopefully you), I do get to share a little more awesomeness with you. When the opportunity presents itself to ask a few questions to someone who contributed to the awesomeness of the '80s, I will continue to share those answers with you right here. Please keep in mind the original date because some content could be specific to the time of the interview, though the majority should be timeless and totally rad.) These are more than just interviews in a way they are more like '80s timelines or oral histories on their respective subject matters.

Lyrics christmas time bryan adams series#

It is one installment in an incredible series of interviews we are republishing on Rediscover the '80s for posterity and your enjoyment. (This interview was originally published Decemon the now-retired Kickin' it Old School blog.