BRYAN ADAMS - WHEN YOU'RE GONE

WHEN YOU’RE GONE

BRYAN ADAMS

SONGWRITERS: ELIOT KENNEDY & BRYAN ADAMS

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: ON A DAY LIKE TODAY

LABEL: A & M

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1998

 

         Bryan Guy Adams (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian guitarist, singer, composer, record producer, photographer, and philanthropist. With several number-one singles and albums in various countries, Adams has sold over 100 million records worldwide. Adams was the most played artist on Canadian radio in the 2010 and he has had 25 top-15 singles in Canada, and a dozen or more in the US, UK and Australia.

          Adams joined his first band at age 15, and at age 20 his eponymous debut album was released. He rose to fame in North America with 1983 Top-10 album Cuts Like a Knife, featuring its title track and the ballad "Straight From the Heart", his first US Top-10 hit. His 1984 album, Reckless, made him a global star with tracks like "Run to You" and "Summer of '69", both Top-10 hits in the US and Canada, and the power ballad "Heaven", a US number 1 hit. His 1987 album Into the Fire went to number 2 in Canada and the Top 10 in several other countries.

           In 1991, Adams's released "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", which went to number 1 in at least 19 countries, including for 16 and 18 straight weeks in the UK, and Europe overall, both records. It is one of the best-selling singles of all time, having sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. The song was included on Adams' Waking Up the Neighbours(1991), a worldwide number 1 album that sold 16 million copies, including being certified diamond in Canada. Other international Top-10 hits off the album were the Canadian number 1 songs "Can't Stop This Thing We Started" and "Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven". Beginning in 1993, Adams' hits were mostly ballads, including the worldwide number 1 or 2 hits: "Please Forgive Me"; "All for Love" (1993); and "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" (1995), the latter two topping the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

         In 1996, Adams' 18 til I Die was a Top 5 album in many countries, but only reached number 31 in the US. He did duets with Barbra Streisand("I Finally Found Someone" (1996), his last US Top-10 hit) and Melanie C("When You're Gone" (1998), an international Top 5 hit). In the 1990s, Adams had six European Radio Airplay number 1 songs for 32 weeks, the fourth and third most, respectively; and three number 1 songs on the European Sales Chart for 29 weeks total, the most weeks of any artist. Since 1999, Adams released seven albums, three reaching number 1 in Canada, and most reaching the Top 10 in the UK, Germany and elsewhere.

         "When You're Gone" is a song by Canadian musician Bryan Adams, featuring English singer-songwriter Melanie Chisholm, known professionally as Melanie C. The song was released on November 30, 1998, by A&M Records as the second single from Adams' eighth studio album, On a Day Like Today(1998), and is Chisholm's debut single outside of the Spice Girls. Adams requested for Chisholm to be included after his original choice Sheryl Crow never responded.

          "When You're Gone" was written by Eliot Kennedy and Adams, the latter songwriter also produced the song with Bob Rock. It contains genres of pop rock and soft rock, and is performed as a duet between Adams and Chisholm. "When You're Gone" peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart and at number four on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. An accompanying music video was released by German film director Marcus Nispel, which depicts Adams and Chisholm inside a three-story nine room house.

I've been wandering around the house all night

Wondering what the hell to do

Yeah, I'm trying to concentrate

But all I can think of is you

 

Well the phone don't ring

'Cause my friends ain't home

I'm tired of being all alone

Got the TV on 'cause the radio's playing

Songs that remind me of you

 

CHORUS:

Baby when you're gone

I realise i'm in love

Days go on and on

And the nights just seem so long

Even food don't taste that good

Drink ain't doing what it should

Things just feel so wrong

Baby when you're gone

 

I keep driving up and down these streets

Trying to find somewhere to go

Yeah I'm looking for a familiar face

But there's no one I know

Oh, this is torture, this is pain

It feels like i'm gonna go insane

I hope you're coming back real soon,

'Cause I don't know what to do

 

CHORUS:

Baby when you're gone

I realise i'm in love

Days go on and on

And the nights just seem so long

Even food don't taste that good

Drink ain't doing what it should

Things just feel so wrong

Baby when you're gone

 

CHORUS:

Baby when you're gone

I realise i'm in love

Days go on and on

And the nights just seem so long

Even food don't taste that good

Drink ain't doing what it should

Things just feel so wrong

Baby when you're gone.