Produced by Jim Vallance and Bryan Adams. Recorded by Jim Vallance at the Shangri-la Hotel, Toronto, Canada and the Mercer Hotel in New York; by Matt Weir and Peter Wallace at Ballyvolane House, Co. Cork, Ireland; and by Steve Jay at Bungalow Palace Studios, Los Angeles. Mixed by Jeff Lynne and Steve Jay.

In 2017 Bryan began planning a compilation album, his fourth after "So Far So Good" (1993), "The Best Of Me" (1999) and "Anthology" (2005). He decided to call the new package "Ultimate". To compliment the track-list he suggested we write a new song with the word "Ultimate" in the title (exactly the kind of challenge I like ... a project with a deadline).

As a possible starting point Bryan played me a recording he'd made with his band at a pre-concert sound-check somewhere, a frenetic Who-inspired track with aggressive guitar stabs and wild drum fills. It had great energy.

We wrote a lyric and melody and we called the new song "Ultimate Love".

Mission accomplished. Almost.

We "lived with it" for a month, but we ultimately decided (pun intended) to take a different approach. I had a rough track I'd recorded during the "Get Up" sessions a few years earlier. Bryan and I had a listen and we both agreed it had potential. So we wrote a new "Ultimate Love" lyric and melody to fit the new track. It seemed to work!

A few weeks later during a concert tour of Ireland, Bryan and his band set up in the dining room (?) of Ballyvolane House -- a country manor house originally built in 1728 and now operating as a hotel -- and recorded a rockin' track.

At this point we hoped that Jeff Lynne might take over, but he was too busy with his own projects. However, he and Steve Jay agree to mix the track.