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Wikipedia article"'Tonight We Have the Stars'" is a rock song written by Bryan Adams, Gretchen Peters and Jim Vallance for Adams' tenth studio album '11' (2008). The song's musical-style and production were heavily inspired by rock and pop music from the 1980s, and its lyrics chronicles a relationship. The single was released worldwide on May 30, 2008 and later as a digital single on June 6, 2008. The B-side is a live solo acoustic performance of "Somethin' to Believe In" in Barcelona, Spain from his digital UK EP "Live From Barcelona". Recording and production"Tonight We Have the Stars" was written by Adams, Gretchen Peters and Jim Vallance. When writing the song, the three e-mailed each other's audio files back and forth, with each of them commenting on the song when received. This process continued until the song was completed. As Vallance later wrote on his webpage;
The song was mixed by Bob Clearmountain at his studio in Los Angeles. As stated by Vallance: "I was in Canada, Bryan was in Brazil, and Ben Dobie was in England. Give or take a few milliseconds, we were all hearing the mix "live", streaming on a dedicated, encrypted iTunes channel." After each pass of mixing Vallance and Adams would send comments to him on iChat. After giving Clearmountain a comment he would "roll tape" again, and we'd hear the suggested changes unfold in close-to-real time. As stated by Vallance:
ReceptionFollowing statement is from a review by Kirk LaPointe, managing editor of 'The Vancouver Sun';
Darryl Sterdan, in his review for Jam! have stated that the song is "a classic Adams opening gambit -- he starts out with moody verses, then kicks into gear with an arena-ready chorus". However MusicOMH was not too impressed by the song calling it has "requisite croaky vocals and anthemic radio-friendly chorus, but there's nothing to move or touch you." Music videoThe Music video for the song is identical to the previous single's video. Bryan and his band play the song live in a studio. It was available on his website for a time, and is to be included with the upcoming DVD. Track listingReferencesCategory:Bryan Adams songs Category:2008 singles Category:Songs written by Jim Vallance Category:Songs written by Gretchen Peters Category:Songs written by Bryan Adams Category:Universal Music Group singles Category:Polydor Records singles Category:2008 songs | |
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