For myself, I doubt that the sexual position actually had a lot to do with the conception of the song at the time and that Adam’s later claim was meant to lend a little more grit to a song that would otherwise be nostalgic and innocent-seeming and to not disappoint fans who already imagined that the song may be all about sex. He told In the Studio that the song was about nostalgia, citing the cultural revolution, the breakup of The Beatles, his own discovery of music, the moon landing, and the character in the song playing his guitar “till his fingers bled,” and about sexual discovery. Three other songs from Reckless were also nominated.Īs for whether the song really is about the year, 1969, or the sexual position “69,” Adams claimed on The Early Show in 2008 that it was a song about sex and making love and making love in the summertime, and, yes, that the “69” part was about the position. The music video for the song was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in the Best Male Video category. It went through a number of recordings, as well. In the end ‘summer of ’69’ became the featured lyric and ‘best days of my life’ only appears twice. The original idea was to call it Best Days of My Life, and in this first iteration, the lyric ‘summer of ’69’ only appeared once in the song, with Best Days of My Live appearing seven times. Just after Adam’s finished touring for his album Cuts Like a Knife, he started recording Reckless and he and Jim Vallance wrote Summer of ’69 in his basement studio, changing it several times thinking it wasn’t a strong enough song for the album. Also on the album were the classic Adams songs One Night Love Affair, Run to You, Heaven, Somebody, and It’s Only Love, featuring Tina Turner. It was released as a single in June 1985 as the fourth single from the album, with two different B-side tracks, Kids Wanna Rock and The Best Was Yet to Come, and peaked at no. Summer of ’69 was written by Bryan Adams and his long-time writing partner Jim Valance for the 1984 album Reckless.
Actually, whether or not Adams started an unsuccessful teenage band, in 1976, he did join an established band, the Vancouver, Canada based Sweeney Todd, at just age 15 He couldn’t seem more different than the singer he replaced, Nick Gilder, who had left the band to start his own solo career in Los Angeles, scoring a smash-hit with Hot Child in the City.
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