Produced by Mutt Lange and Bryan Adams. Recorded by Nigel Green at Battery Studios, London.  Mixed by Bob Clearmountain at Mayfair Studios, London.

Bryan and I finished writing "Depend On Me" in the Spring of 1989.  At least we thought it was finished! Then Mutt Lange suggested we add a second chorus: "Like sister to brother, father to mother", a brilliant addition that took the song to another level altogether.

Thank you Mutt!

Mutt arrived at just the right time. Bryan's previous album (Into The Fire) had not been well-received by the record-buying public. We'd been working on songs for the follow-up album, "Waking Up The Neighbours", ten hours a day for more than year and it wasn't going well. We were exhausted, and even worse, we were starting to "burn out" personally and creatively. We desperately needed help with our writing.

Enter Mutt Lange.

Early in our working relationship Bryan and I discovered that we both loved AC/DC, especially their "Highway To Hell" and "Back In Black" albums. We also greatly admired Mutt Lange, the person responsible for producing both those albums.

Over the years our admiration for Mutt grew and grew, as he directed outstanding albums for Foreigner, The Cars, Billy Ocean, Def Leppard and many others.  Quite simply, Mutt Lange was one of our "heroes".

Not surprisingly, Bryan was determined to work with Mutt.  That's the main reason we spent January 1987 writing at Zomba Studios in London.  Mutt had a private studio in the Zomba building.  By "camping out" at Zomba for a month, Bryan hoped he might have the opportunity to cultivate a relationship with the famous producer.

Things unfolded according to plan ... more or less.  Bryan had several long chats with Mutt during our stay at Zomba, and he showed Mutt the songs we were working on (we were writing tracks for Bryan's "Into The Fire" album at that time). 

Mutt commented politely, but Bryan was unsuccessful in convincing Mutt to get invovled.  That would have to wait another year or two (see Waking Up The Neighbours).