Bryan Adams tells the story of his first guitar

The 65 -year -old Bryan Adams During an interview granted to Podcast “I Never Thought It would Happen” revealed the origins of the incipit of the text of his 1984 hit “Summer of ’69” included in his third album “Reckless”.

The Canadian musician revealed that, unlike what was reported in the lyrics of the song, the guitar was not purchased in an American “Five and Dime” (‘I Got My First Real Six-String/Bought it at the Five and Dime’), but in a Reading music store in 1970, when he was 12 years old.

“It was an imitation of Stratocaster. The story is set at the time: my father worked for the Canadian embassy and we were stationed around the world, then we were transferred to Israel, where we spent a year, and I took my guitar with me. But when we went there, I left the guitar there and I gave it to my neighbor. When I went back to Canada, Done?”.

He continued again by telling: “Anyway, I received an email from an someone who said: ‘Hey, I have your 1970 guitar, do you want it back?’ I replied: ‘Wow, of course I want it back.

Bryan Adams He then explained that that man was a friend of the person who had written to him years earlier, unfortunately died in a plane crash. He had inherited the guitar and wanted to fulfill the desire of his deceased friend to return it to Adams.