Bryan Adams-(Everything I Do) I Do It for You

  如果你忘了 "Summer of '69"，你要來看Bryan Adams的winter of 2019，這要謝謝他的新EP(迷你專輯)要在Christmas的推出。

  這張迷你專輯收錄有五首歌，其中三首以前錄過，它們是"Christmas Time" "Reggae Christmas" 及"Merry Christmas"，另二首是新歌，其中之一是"Must Be Santa"，一首1960年就寫好的歌，Bob Dylan於2009年曾翻唱過，另一首歌名"Joe and Mary"，它的MV最近會推出。

  Adams很高興推出這張迷你專輯，他表示：能錄新歌與拍MV 'Joe and Mary.'很有趣，我很希望歌迷能儘快看到這個作品，和聽聽那幾首經典聖誕歌曲。

     搖滾樂手Bryan Adams是歷年暢銷歌星排行榜第74名的知名歌星，走紅於1980-1990年代，Adams1959年11月出生於加拿大安大略省，1976-1977年是Sweeney Todd合唱團的主唱，工作夥伴Jim Vallance是他很好的作曲搭檔。

    Bryan Adams在排行榜上名次最好的歌是1991年獲得七周排行榜冠軍的" (Everything I Do)I Do It For You"，而1985年Bryan Adams版的聖誕歌曲"Christmas Time"也是他很受歡迎的歌。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWstkYsXJJk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1S7BheT5GM

(Everything I Do) I Do It for You

Songwriters: Bryan Adams / Michael Arnold Kamen / Robert John Lange

Look into my eyes
You will see
What you mean to me
Search your heart
Search your soul
And when you find me there
You'll search no more

Don't tell me it's not worth tryin' for
You can't tell me it's not worth dyin' for
You know it's true
Everything I do
I do it for you

Look into your heart
You will find
There's nothin' there to hide
Take me as I am
Take my life
I would give it all
I would sacrifice

Don't tell me it's not worth fightin' for
I can't help it, there's nothin' I want more
You know it's true
Everything I do
I do it for you

There's no love
Like your love
And no other
Could give more love
There's nowhere
Unless you're there
All the time
All the way, yeah

Look into your heart, baby

Oh you can't tell me it's not worth tryin' for
I can't help it, there's nothin' I want more
Yeah, I would fight for you
I lie for you
Walk the wire for you
Yeah, I'd die for you

You know it's true
Everything I do
Oh
I do it for you

Everything I do, darling
And we'll see it through
Oh we'll see it through
Oh yeah

Yeah
Look into your heart
Look at your soul
You can't tell me it ain't worth dying for
Oh yeah

I'll be there, yeah
I'll walk the wire for you
I will die for you

Oh yeah

I would die for you

I'm going all the way, all they way, yeah

The Monkees-I'm A Believer

  The Monkees團員Micky Dolenz 與 Mike Nesmith宣布2020年巡迴演唱的日程，他們也同時推出第一張現場專輯。

 

   "An Evening with The Monkees"巡迴演唱會四月3日將從加拿大溫哥華起跑，目前計畫四月26日在納許維爾辦一場演唱會，入場券和貴賓套票11月15日本周五就要開賣，歌迷們買票的時候會收到一張CD 或數位拷貝，這張 The Monkees -- The Mike & Micky Show Live 專輯四月3日會出片，專輯裡有24位演唱者在今年(2019)三月Nesmith and Dolenz's recent The Monkees Present: The Mike and Micky Show 巡迴演唱裡的歌，這些歌有The Monkees出道50年期間受歡迎作品，還有一些經典之作，也有他們2016 年專輯Good Times裡的幾首歌。

  這張難得的專輯裡有二首 Monkees 早期的作品"St. Matthew" 及"Auntie's Municipal Court"，是1960年代他們全盛時期所錄的，從來沒有現場演唱過。

  The Monkees -- The Mike & Micky Show Live由Monkees的長期管理人Andrew Sandova製作，混音是Nesmith的兒子Christian，巡迴演唱時他也在樂隊中。

  The Monkees合唱團1965年成立於洛杉磯，團員是哥倫比亞電視劇集選秀會400 名應徵者裡選出來的，團員包括吉他手Davy Jones(2012年因心肌梗塞去世)、吉他手Mike Nesmith、貝斯手Peter Tork、鼓手Micky Dolenz ，他們也都擔任演唱部分。

  The Monkees TV Show 1966-1968年一共播出58集 ，他們同時推出四張專輯唱片都獲得專輯榜冠軍，停留在專輯排行榜上共37周，是1967年Hot 100冠軍樂團。

  The Monkees在排行榜上名次最好的歌是1966年底推出的7周冠軍曲I'm A Believer，而1966年沒有出過單曲唱片的I Wanna Be Free，則是一首令人懷念的歌謠，MV以懷念已故團員Davy Jones為題，頗為傳神。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W83InivbUSQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIFLRasX2UQ

I'm a Believer

 Songwriters: Neil Diamond

I thought love was only true in fairy tales
Meant for someone else but not for me
Love was out to get me
That's the way it seemed
Disappointment haunted all of my dreams

Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer
Not a trace, of doubt in my mind
I'm in love, and I'm a believer
I couldn't leave her if I tried

I thought love was more or less a giving thing
The more I gave the less I got oh yeah
What's the use in tryin'
All you get is pain
When I wanted sunshine I got rain

Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer
Not a trace, of doubt in my mind
I'm in love, I'm a believer
I couldn't leave her if I tried

What's the use of trying
All you get is pain
When I wanted sunshine I got rain

Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer
Not a trace, of doubt in my mind
I'm in love, I'm a believer
I couldn't leave her if I tried

Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer
Not a trace, of doubt in my mind
Now I'm a believer, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Now I'm a believer
Then I saw her face
Now I'm a believer
Not a trace, of doubt in my mind

Genesis-Invisible Touch

 在英格蘭成立的Genesis合唱團，被樂評人定位為Prograssive-rock

band前衛搖滾合唱團，原創團員是主唱Peter Gabriel，吉他手

Anthony Pillips，鍵琴手Tony Banks，吉他及貝斯手Mike Rutherford與

鼓手Chris Stewart。

  和很多合唱團一樣，他們的團員也有很多變動，鼓手從1968年到

1970年連換三名，最後找來了Phil Collins，1975連主唱Peter

Gabriel也離團單飛，讓Phil Collins頂替了他的位置，使歌路朝流行

靠近的Genesis合唱團，在排行榜上漸漸出頭。

  Genesis 第一首 top 20的歌是1980年得到第14名的

Misunderstanding，1983年得到第6名的That’s  All則是第一首top

 10的歌。

  1986年Genesis推出一張專輯Invisible Touch，在專輯排行榜獲得

過第3名，其中的單曲Invisible Touch(#1)、Throwing It All

Away(#4) 、Land of Confusion(#4) 、Tonight, Tonight, Tonight(#3) 、In

Too Deep(#3)五首歌都進Billboard Hot 100排行榜top 5，是一張很成

功的專輯唱片。

  在Genesis最風光的1986年，Phil Collins也個人推出一首得到第七

名的Take Me Home，和聲找Peter Gabriel與Sting搭配，歌唱事業

如日正當中，非常風光。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN60DR5GQpg

Invisible Touch

Songwriters: Anthony George Banks / Phillip David Charles Collins / Michael Rutherford

Well I've been waiting, waiting here so long
But thinking nothing, nothing could go wrong, but now I know
She has a built in ability
To take everything she sees
And now it seems I'm falling, falling for her.

She seems to have an invisible touch yeah
She reaches in, grabs right hold of your heart
She seems to have an invisible touch yeah
It takes control and slowly tears you apart.

I don't really know her, I only know her name
But she crawls under your skin, you're never quite the same, and now I know
She's got something you just can't trust
It's something mysterious
And now it seems I'm falling, falling for her.

She seems to have an invisible touch yeah
She reaches in, grabs right hold of your heart
She seems to have an invisible touch yeah
It takes control and slowly tears you apart.

She don't like losing, to her it's still a game
Though she'll mess up your life, you'll want her just the same, now I know
She has a built in ability
To take everything she sees
And now it seems I've fallen, fallen for her.

She seems to have an invisible touch yeah
She reaches in, grabs right hold of your heart
She seems to have an invisible touch yeah
It takes control and slowly tears you apart.

Phil Collins-Do You Remember

  Phil Collins的1989 年專輯…But Seriously之中，另一首進排行榜前五名的歌"Do You Remember?"是一首值得回味的動聽情歌，此曲1990年四月底進Billboard Hot 100單曲榜，最高獲得第4名。

  1951年出生的Phil Collins 1969 年加入Flaming Youth合唱團，1970年轉去Genesis合唱團，Genesis 是一個前衛搖滾樂團，主唱是Peter Gabriel，1975年即因他離開而由Phil Collins取代主唱的位子 。

  Genesis原來在商業上並不成功，Phil Collins當主唱後，1977年開始他們唱出了一些Billboard Hot 100單曲榜上Top 40的暢銷曲，其中1986年的Invisible Touch並獲得過冠軍，使Genesis在歷年暢銷歌星排行榜獲得了第159名，當然，離團而去的Peter Gabriel與Mike Rutherford（Mike+The Machanics ）也並非弱者，二人也推出過受歡迎的暢銷單曲。

  Phil Collins 1996年才正式離開Genesis，其實1981年開始他除了當Genesis的主唱之外，同時也有個人的單曲推出，Genesis的主唱反而變成兼職，從"Against All Odds（Take A Look At Me Now）"到"Another Day in Paradise"，Phil Collins 共有七首歌獲得過排行榜冠軍，成績相當好，在歷年暢銷歌星排行榜獲得了第61名。

  "Do You Remember?" 的MV拍得很棒，百看不厭 !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhfx1MdjnZc

Do You Remember

Phil Collins

Songwriters: Xavier Joseph Millis / Julian Millis / Trent Wilson

We never talked about it
But I hear the blame was mine
I'd call you up to say I'm sorry
But I wouldn't want to waste your time

'Cause I love you, but I can't take any more
There's a look I can't describe in your eyes
If we could try, like we tried before
Would you keep on telling me those lies?
(Telling me lies)

Do you remember?

There seemed no way to make up
'Cause it seemed your mind was set
And the way you looked it told me
It's a look I know I'll never forget

You could've come over to my side
You could've let me know
You could've tried to see the distance between us
But it seemed too far for you to go.
(So far to go)

Do you remember?

Through all of my life
In spite of all the pain
You know people are funny sometimes
'Cause they just can't wait
To get hurt again

Tell me, do you remember?
Do you remember?

There are things we won't recall
And feelings we'll never find
It's taken so long to see it
'Cause we never seemed to have the time

There was always something more important to do
More important to say
But "I love you" wasn't one of those things
And now it's too late

Do you remember?
(Now it's over)
Do you remember?
(Now it's over)

Phil Collins-Another Day in Paradise

 Phil Collins將慶祝他1989年的專輯唱片…But Seriously發行30周年，這張四度獲得過白金唱片的專輯，是以二張180克的彩膠唱片重新發行的。

  限定版以青綠色壓片，這1,000套只在Rhino唱片公司網站獨家提供。

  The Genesis合唱團主唱兼鼓手Phil Collins的第四張錄音室作品，1989年底到1990年初，曾在Billboard 200專輯排行榜連續四周獲得冠軍，其中的"Another Day in Paradise"亦獲得Billboard Hot 100單曲榜冠軍，另三首歌"I Wish It Would Rain Down" 、"Something Happened on the Way to Heaven" 及 "Do You Remember?"則都進入排行榜前五名。

  "Another Day in Paradise"的背景和聲請來David Crosby幫忙，獲得Grammy年度唱片獎，同時也獲得英國Brit Award年度單曲獎。

 

  Phil Collins 1951年出生於倫敦，童年就是一個舞台劇演員，1970年加入The Genesis合唱團，1975年成為主唱，1981年推出第一張個人專輯。在歷年暢銷歌星排行榜獲得第61名。

   "Another Day in Paradise"於1989年底推出，獲得四周排行榜冠軍。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2mbGP6vFI

Another Day in Paradise

Phil Collins

She calls out to the man on the street
'Sir, can you help me?
It's cold and I've nowhere to sleep,
Is there somewhere you can tell me?'

He walks on, doesn't look back
He pretends he can't hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street
Seems embarrassed to be there

Oh think twice, it's another day for you and me in paradise
Oh think twice, 'cause it's just another day for you,
You and me in paradise, think about it

She calls out to the man on the street
He can see she's been crying
She's got blisters on the soles of her feet
She can't walk but she's trying

Oh think twice, 'cause it's another day for you and me in paradise
Oh think twice, it's just another day for you,
You and me in paradise, think about it

Oh Lord, is there nothing more anybody can do
Oh…

Chicago-25 or 6 to 4

  Chicago樂團的鍵琴手與主唱Robert Lamm ，吹奏樂手Lee Loughnane，最近應邀參加 AXS TV節目The Big Interview，在節目演出前的訪問中，二位搖滾樂名人堂的成員與主持人Dan Rather談到這個樂團多年來的往事，和至今一直受歌迷歡迎的長青歌曲怎麼來的。

 

  其中一段 Robert Lamm談到他寫Chicago 的經典作品"25 or 6 to 4"的故事。

  Lamm說他當年Chicago在洛杉磯著名的Whisky a Go Go俱樂部駐唱，某一日靈感突然出現。

  他住在俱樂部附近，有一天晚上沒事坐在鋼琴前隨意彈著，既沒有歌名也沒有歌詞，大概半個小時左右，Lamm看著芝加哥那個大都市的夜光與大樓建築，腦中突然有了像'flashing lights against the sky' 的歌詞出現。

  那時候他很累，不想去想像這首歌會變得怎樣，他只是趕緊把靈感乍現的歌詞配上音節。

  已不確定幾點了，但依稀記得他手摸到時鐘的時候大約25 或 26 分鐘到清晨4點。

  Lamm解釋：當時他只想去把寫這首歌發想的過程描述一下，他估算這首歌的歌詞稍後會完成，但他不急著去處理。

  Chicago暢銷曲很多，是歷年暢銷歌星與合唱團排行第23名的著名樂團，原名the Big Thing，1969年改名Chicago Transit Authority，然後只用簡稱Chicago。

  1985年原主唱Peter Cetera 離團而去，主唱換Jason Scheff，Robert Lamm 與Lee Loughnane二位創團元老至今對音樂的愛好熱情不減，目前仍然率領後來才加入的團員們以Chicago之名繼續演唱之中。

 

  "25 or 6 to 4"是Chicago 1970年獲得第4名的暢銷曲，1986年曾改加長版推出，獲得第48名。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIwcUcpY4Ak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yZT3qpc1qM

25 or 6 to 4

Songwriters: Robert Lamm

Waiting for the break of day

Searching for something to say

Dancing lights againnst the sky

Giving up I close my eyes

Sitting cross-legged on the floor

25 or 6 to 4

Staring blindly into space

Getting up to splash my face

Wanting just to stay awake

Wondering how much I can take

Should have tried to do some more

25 or 6 to 4

Feeling like I ought to sleep

Spinning room is sinking deep

Searching for something to say

Waiting for the break of day

25 or 6 to 4

25 or 6 to 4