Bryan Adams & Melanie C
Biography
Canadian rock singer, guitarist and songwriter Bryan Adams and British singer Melanie C, former Spice Girl, recorded one single together.
"When Youre Gone" was written by Adams and Eliot Kennedy. It appears on Adams album On a Day Like Today. The single was released on November 30, 1998. The song was a big hit, it peaked at number three at UK Singles chart spending fifteen weeks in the UK top forty, with nine of these in the top ten. The single sold 635,300 copies, it became the eighty-second best seller of the 1990s.
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This song has become a popular song at Adams concerts. Since Melanie C usually doesnt tour with Adams, he would pick a female fan out of the audience to sing the song with him. In 2005, he rerecorded the song with Pamela Anderson for the USA release of Anthology greatest hits album and as a radio single.
Melanie C still uses the song on all of her tours. She has a guitarist sing Adams part. It is a very personal song to melanie as Bryan was the one who started her solo career.
Melanie C and Bryan Adams reunited to sing the song at a charity event in England proving the song has its vibe after all these years. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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