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which distinctively featured more than
half its tracks as hit singles, including
“Run to You,” “Somebody,” “Heaven,”
“Summer of ’ ,” “One Night Love Af-
fair,” and the ery duet with Tina Turner
“It’s Only Love.”
Reckless
easily became a top album
across America, with ve million copies
sold in the US and a million more
in Canada (it was the rst disc by a
Canadian artist to hit that milestone),
and the rest of the world enthusiasti-
cally doubled that total. is legendary
album, sporting a similarly iconic black-
and-white cover, also earned Adams his
rst two Grammy nominations, with the
disc as a whole being in the running for
Best Male Rock Performance and “It’s
Only Love” being up for Best Rock
Performance by a Duo or Group.
In the years that followed, Adams
would see big success from sharing
his talents with Hollywood, penning
and performing songs for some of
the Nineties’ biggest lms. In June
of
, while touring Europe with
ZZ Top, Adams released the single
“(Everything I Do) I Do It for You”
for the movie
Robin Hood: Prince
of ieves
starring Kevin Costner
and Morgan Freeman. e song
topped the US charts for seven
weeks, making it the longest any
song had remained at number
one in eight years, and saw even
greater intercontinental success,
spending weeks at number one
in the UK, the longest that any single
had then sat at the ultimate position
on the British charts. It received four
Grammy nominations, including for
both Song of the Year and Record of the
Year, ultimately being recognized as the
Best Song Written for a Motion Picture,
Television, or Other Visual Media.
Continuing the trend, Adams’s theme
song for the movie
e ree Muske-
teers
, “All for Love,” recorded with Rod
Stewart and Sting, hit number one in
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