Produced by Bob Clearmountain and Bryan Adams.  Associate producer Jim Vallance.  Recorded by Bob Clearmountain, September 1986, at Cliffhanger Studios, West Vancouver.  Mixed by Bob Clearmountain, January 1987, at AIR Studios, London.

	Above: a selection of 45RPM single sleeves

Bryan Adams and I wrote "Victim Of Love" during a four-week stay at Zomba Studios in London in March 1986. Vicki Russell, Bryan’s girlfriend at the time, lived in London and Bryan wanted to spend time with her. I love England, so I didn't need much convincing when Bryan suggested we do some writing there.

I rented a flat in a 200-year-old building near Kensington Palace (it had originally been built to house palace staff).  Bryan stayed at Vicki’s house. Every day we’d meet at Zomba Studios and write for 10 or 12 hours. Despite the rigorous schedule, only a few songs were completed during our stay there.

This was our tenth year writing together. Things hadn't quite started unraveling yet (that happened in the 11th year), but there's no doubt our creative partnership was running out of steam.

For me, "Victim Of Love" is the high point on an otherwise dark and uninspired album. Where previous songs like "Summer Of '69" and "Heaven" had, in their final recorded form, exceeded my expectations, "Victim Of Love" is one of the few songs on "Into The Fire" that even came close.

At one point Bryan and I took a break from writing and flew to Berlin for a couple of days. This was a year or two before the wall came down. It was a remarkable experience crossing over to East Berlin at "Checkpoint Charlie".

It was a gray, drizzly day to begin with, but even still, the journey from west-to-east was like going from colour to black-and-white, with drab Soviet-era architecture and exhaust-spewing Russian "Lada" cars everywhere.  Most surprising of all, the buildings in East Berlin (museums, churches, embassies) were riddled with bullet holes from the WWII.