Bryan ADAMS: Somebody 7″. Check video. Great picture cover Bryan Adams on a motorbike! UK 1984

Description

Bryan Adams Somebody
Label: A&M Records
Catalog#: AM 236
Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: 1984
Style: Pop Rock, Rock, A.O.R.

Tracklist
A Somebody                         Adams, Vallance 4:44     Producer Bob Clearmountain

B Long Gone                        Adams, Vallance 3:57   Producer Jim Vallance

“Somebody” is a rock song written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance for Adams fourth studio album Reckless (1984). It was the second single released from the album Reckless. It is arguably one of Adams’ most recognizable and popular songs. The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Stewart Mason from Allmusic said “Following the Big Rawk Anthem (“Run to You”) and the Sensitive Power Ballad (“Heaven”), “Somebody” covers the third base as a straight-ahead singalong pop song with a killer chorus. A gift to an entire generation of cover bands working the bar circuit, “Somebody” has a chorus so simple and catchy that you can actually sing along to it even if you’ve never actually heard the song before, and Adams and his indispensable musical partner, Jim Vallance, helpfully point out the feasibility of said activity by incorporating a large, somewhat ragged group of backing vocalists for the lengthy vamp of a fadeout. Rather like “Run to You,” “Somebody” is just slightly too schematic to qualify as an all-time heartland rock classic, but it still sounds good on the radio.”

Music Videos
There are two music videos for the song. One (the most commonly seen) features visual footage of Adams and his band performing the song live in a concert hall (with audience “screaming” in the background).
The other video, now extremely rare, shows Adams walking out of a stadium and through a field, interspersed with shots of him with his guitar, as well as a woman who is having relationship problems with another man (not Adams). This latter video culminates with Adams walking out onto the field of a packed football stadium while a video of him playing the song on his guitar projects on the big-screen.

Bryan Adams – rhythm guitar, certain lead guitar parts, lead vocals
Keith Scott – lead guitar, certain rhythm guitar parts, backing vocals
Tommy Mandel – keyboards
Dave Taylor – bass
Mickey Curry – drums
Jim Vallance – percussion

Chart Peak:
US Billboard Hot 100 11
US Billboard Top Rock Tracks 1
Canadian Singles Chart 13
UK Singles Chart 35
Irish Singles Chart 20