Those of you over 30 must remember a certain Canadian rocker becoming huge news in the charts when a certain theme song remained at number one for what seemed like forever. Im talking about Bryan Adams and Everything I Do (I do it for you). Up to this week 20 years ago no song had stayed at number one for more than nine weeks since 1955. Then Bryan Adams song not only suppased nine weeks but was suddenly equal to a record unbroken for 35 years. Could Bryan Adams really stay at number one for a 12th week? It was even on the news! Well of course it did but then astonishingly continued to stay at number one for another month finally dropping down after 16 weeks at the top! I remember this really well. Poor old Bryan was being slagged off right left and centre as if it were his fault! It nearly happened again in 1994 when Love Is all Around spent 15 weeks at the top. But I cant see this happening again. What are your memories of the summer and Autumn of 1991? were you sick of it or were you behind Bryan all the way? Personally I was pleased for the bloke as he seems a good bloke to me. But maybe 12 weeks was enough!!
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What I don't understand is why Wet Wet Wet stopped selling the single after 15 weeks? Did they not want to break the record for longest running number one?
I remember they used to have a regular review show on Radio 1 where they reviewed the weeks single releases, Bobby Gilespie from Primal Scream was on the week that this Bryan Adams song was reviewed. He gave it a right slagging off and said he would have refused to come on the show if he'd known they were going to make him listen to stuff like that - and that was before it had even started it's no 1 run. Made me laugh at the time. 
I don't remember having any particular thoughts about the song or all the weeks it spent at no 1 one way or the other myself. I was too busy listening to Neds Atomic Dustbin.
I don't remember having any particular thoughts about the song or all the weeks it spent at no 1 one way or the other myself. I was too busy listening to Neds Atomic Dustbin.
Well time has its way of healing and I don't mind it now..but at the time it was starting to get on everyone's nerves.
I think what irked me and my friends at the time, was that at one stage in the mid 80's Bryan Adams was making some really good AOR style hard rock...and by the time he released 'Everthing I do'..well, we thought he had properly 'sold out'.
I think what irked me and my friends at the time, was that at one stage in the mid 80's Bryan Adams was making some really good AOR style hard rock...and by the time he released 'Everthing I do'..well, we thought he had properly 'sold out'.
awful song, how it stopped at the top for that long is unreal.... maybe its because singles sales were low..
Sales weren't as low as they are today. You only have to sell a copy to your mum to get a #1 these days.
I have memories of this song being replayed over and over and over and over and over in the car when I was about four years old. On a cassette tape no less 
I think Right Said Fred must have been most fed up with this song. Im Too Sexy was at number 2 for six weeks in a row during this mammoth run. I do remember Bryan Adams being on a Saturday morning show with Philip Schofield. I remember Philip saying "Please let someone else have a shot at number one!" I think even Bryan Adams himself was overwhelmed by the controversy surrounding it. Everyone seemed to hate it but at the same time willing it on to beat the all time record! Ironic that the song that finally knocked it from the top was The Fly by U2 which stayedat nimber one for just one week and spent about four weeks in the chart!
Originally Posted by JEFF62:
“ Ironic that the song that finally knocked it from the top was The Fly by U2 which stayedat nimber one for just one week and spent about four weeks in the chart!”
“ Ironic that the song that finally knocked it from the top was The Fly by U2 which stayedat nimber one for just one week and spent about four weeks in the chart!”
I was livid with U2 (even more than usual).
Not for knocking Bryan off the top spot, but if they'd waited a week, then the record that did it would have been Vic Reeves & The Wonderstuff!
Terrible song, terrible charts, terrible terrible.
What with this, Right Said Fred, Chesney Hawkes and that s**t rave music-endless one hit wonders on TOTP who could barely sing the line that had been sampled from another track.
Virtually no pop music, r n b went into hiding and all the good dance music was kept underground.
Bad year in the mainstream.
What with this, Right Said Fred, Chesney Hawkes and that s**t rave music-endless one hit wonders on TOTP who could barely sing the line that had been sampled from another track.
Virtually no pop music, r n b went into hiding and all the good dance music was kept underground.
Bad year in the mainstream.
I think I was too busy puzzling why Siouxsie & The Banshees didnt hit no 1 with 'Kiss Them For Me', only got to 29 or 31....
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I was also retreating further into the past with Roxy Musics first few albums. The early 90's were barren for decent pop chart material. Stereo MCs & Electribe 101 & a rejuvenated Primal Scream & Cocteau Twins were the only decent groups in the first couple of years of the 90's para mi.
!I was also retreating further into the past with Roxy Musics first few albums. The early 90's were barren for decent pop chart material. Stereo MCs & Electribe 101 & a rejuvenated Primal Scream & Cocteau Twins were the only decent groups in the first couple of years of the 90's para mi.
Originally Posted by broonale:
“Sales weren't as low as they are today. You only have to sell a copy to your mum to get a #1 these days.”
“Sales weren't as low as they are today. You only have to sell a copy to your mum to get a #1 these days.”
.... but it was a totally different scene, music is so widely available now there is no 'rush to buy a vinyl before its withdrawn from sale' , the scene nowdays is so heavily commercialised, that adams song was one of the few pop tracks in the chart, ones that have a broad appeal... people liked alternative, or rave/dance, rock, grunge, many of which didnt court the singles chart and the ones that did had a specific demograph.
Originally Posted by leosw4:
“Terrible song, terrible charts, terrible terrible.
What with this, Right Said Fred, Chesney Hawkes and that s**t rave music-endless one hit wonders on TOTP who could barely sing the line that had been sampled from another track.
Virtually no pop music, r n b went into hiding and all the good dance music was kept underground.
Bad year in the mainstream.”
“Terrible song, terrible charts, terrible terrible.
What with this, Right Said Fred, Chesney Hawkes and that s**t rave music-endless one hit wonders on TOTP who could barely sing the line that had been sampled from another track.
Virtually no pop music, r n b went into hiding and all the good dance music was kept underground.
Bad year in the mainstream.”
we might not agree over jacko...but we do fully concur about this! 1991 was a very bad year imho, one of the worst in the last 50 years.
I was at the Milton Keynes Bowl the day before the song went to number 1, it was a double headline ZZ Top and Bryan Adams. So nice to hear it live the day before it got to the top.
Mind you if they had known the song was going to be number one that long I wonder if the top bill would still have been ZZ Top?
Mind you if they had known the song was going to be number one that long I wonder if the top bill would still have been ZZ Top?
This song apart it was one of the last years i had any interest in the music charts.
Some good tunes this year then kinda lost interest because of all the shite that was been released.
Some good tunes this year then kinda lost interest because of all the shite that was been released.
"Everything I Do..." was a the theme from a Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie. Singles allied to movies were big sellers at the time, some people seemed to want a momento from a film they'd enjoyed. There were similar long chart runs for Whitney Houstons "I Will Aways Love You" and the Wet Wet Wet single, which were both film "themes".
I heard a story that Marti Pellow from Wet Wet Wet was in the cinema and Love Is All Around came on. Someone sitting behind him muttered "Oh no, not that again, I'm sick of it!" Marti Pellow turned round to him and said something like "Don't worry, I'm sick of it too!" So the band pulled the single a week shy of getting the "record". Which was awfully good of them!
I thought "Everything I Do" was quite a good song, but too mediocre to get 16 weeks at number 1. That was all down to the film. Adams had better songs ( eg "Run To You", "Summer of 69". Shame they didn't get to No.1, instead of the mushy song).
I disagree that 1991 was a bad year for music! The start of it was. Boring dance music. Then I got a cassette tape that, (as with another poster listening to Bryan Adams), got played over and over. It was called Nevermind, and it definately went mainstream. Revolution had arrived!
I heard a story that Marti Pellow from Wet Wet Wet was in the cinema and Love Is All Around came on. Someone sitting behind him muttered "Oh no, not that again, I'm sick of it!" Marti Pellow turned round to him and said something like "Don't worry, I'm sick of it too!" So the band pulled the single a week shy of getting the "record". Which was awfully good of them!
I thought "Everything I Do" was quite a good song, but too mediocre to get 16 weeks at number 1. That was all down to the film. Adams had better songs ( eg "Run To You", "Summer of 69". Shame they didn't get to No.1, instead of the mushy song).
I disagree that 1991 was a bad year for music! The start of it was. Boring dance music. Then I got a cassette tape that, (as with another poster listening to Bryan Adams), got played over and over. It was called Nevermind, and it definately went mainstream. Revolution had arrived!
Originally Posted by JEFF62:
“Ironic that the song that finally knocked it from the top was The Fly by U2 which stayed at number one for just one week and spent about four weeks in the chart!”
“Ironic that the song that finally knocked it from the top was The Fly by U2 which stayed at number one for just one week and spent about four weeks in the chart!”
The Fly was my fave song of 1991 but was not one of my top 40 fave songs of the decade. My decade chart was a 1991-free zone, and I much preferred One.
Back to the day Everything I Do was toppled from the no 1 slot (I think October 27th 1991), I remember Mark Goodier asking "Will Bryan Adams make it 17 weeks at no 1? No!" Bryan had fallen to no 4, and no 3 was 2 Unlimited with Get Ready for This. Whenever I heard Get Ready for This after that, it always reminded me of the moment Bryan had been toppled from the no 1 slot!
I remember it well, not a bad song did get sick of it after a while though too.
BTW 1991 was a bad year for music in one way only. That was the death of Freddie in November of that year.
BTW 1991 was a bad year for music in one way only. That was the death of Freddie in November of that year.
Originally Posted by leosw4:
“all the good dance music was kept underground.”
“all the good dance music was kept underground.”
Well, not ALL of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FAsZJU3Jgg
Originally Posted by BionicCommando:
“Well THANK YOU VERY MUCH for making us all feel old
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“Well THANK YOU VERY MUCH for making us all feel old
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I know what you mean! I might forgive Tombo if he was born between October 11th and 24th, as Sleeping Satellite was no 1 then!
I remember it well but I never bought the single at the time..but strangely wanted it to get the record
As for the question..could it happen today? Seems unlikely but Rihanna managed 10 weeks with her Umbrella!..which wasn't THAT long ago in 2007 and Gnarls Barkley got Crazy for 9 weeks (I think?) in 2006...who also deleted it like Wet Wet Wet
As for the question..could it happen today? Seems unlikely but Rihanna managed 10 weeks with her Umbrella!..which wasn't THAT long ago in 2007 and Gnarls Barkley got Crazy for 9 weeks (I think?) in 2006...who also deleted it like Wet Wet Wet
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