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Kids Wanna Rock | ||||||||||||
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| Recording Artist: | Bryan Adams | ||||||||||||
| Buy This Song: |  |
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| Writers: | Jim Vallance Bryan Adams |
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| Date Written: | June-August 1984 / Vancouver Canada | ||||||||||||
| Albums: | Reckless (A&M Records, 1984) Live Live Live (A&M Records, 1988) So Far So Good (A&M Records, 1993) |
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| Charts: | #42- Billboard Top Rock Tracks Chart / 1984 (6 weeks on the chart) | ||||||||||||
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Bryan Adams: rhythm guitar, vocals Keith Scott: lead guitar Dave Taylor: bass Tommy Mandel: keyboards Pat Steward: drums Backing vocals: Bryan Adams, Keith Scott, Pat Steward, Jody Perpick, Bob Clearmountain |
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Produced by Bob Clearmountain and Bryan Adams. Associate producer, Jim Vallance. Recorded by Bob Clearmountain, September 1984, at Little Mountain Sound, Vancouver. Mixed by Bob Clearmountain, September 1984, at the Power Station, New York. |
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| Cover Versions: | Also recorded by Sodom | ||||||||||||
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The idea for "Kids Wanna Rock" began one
summer night in 1984 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, where
Bryan and I and my wife Rachel had gone to see a performance by Thomas
Dolby. With all the electronic sounds and robotic posturing we found the performance to be somewhat lacking emotionally. Unable to endure another "sine-wave", twenty minutes into the concert we quietly slipped out of the theatre and went up the street for a bite to eat. While discussing the Dolby performance over dinner one of us remarked how, really, the kids just "wanna rock". We wrote most of "Kids Wanna Rock" the next day. We based the song on another idea we'd been developing. Just as Paul McCartney used "Scrambled Eggs" as a temporary title for "Yesterday", Bryan and I had a temporary lyric before we settled on "Kids Wanna Rock". Instead of "Around the world or around the block, everywhere I go the kids wanna rock" we had "What's Sir Lew Grade got against me, I can't get my songs on the BBC" ... an accurate refection of Bryan's inability at the time to get airplay on UK radio. The only problem is, we'd got our people mixed up. Lew Grade was an independent television producer, and had nothing whatsoever to do with BBC radio programming. Sorry Lew! Ironically, a few years later Bryan's "Everything You Do" became the most played song in the history of British radio. |
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| Lyrics: | Turned
on the radio Sounded like a disco Musta turned the dial for a couple of miles But I couldn't find no rock 'n roll This computerized crap ain't gettin' me off Everywhere I go the kids wanna rock London to L.A. Talkin' 'bout the new wave For a couple of bucks you get a weird haircut And waste your life away Around the world or around the block Everywhere I go the kids wanna rock Get me my D.J. I got somethin' he's gotta play Wanna hear it I can't wait So turn it up, turn it up... Kick down the barricades Listen to what the kids say From time to time people change their minds But the music is here to stay I've seen it all from the bottom to the top Everywhere I go kids wanna rock Around the world or around the block Everywhere I go the kids wanna rock Everywhere I go the kids wanna rock |
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