Few things bring back sweet nostalgia as lucidly as the ever-charming coarse vocals of Bryan Adams plunging into Summer of ’69, Heaven, Straight from the Heart, Cuts Like a Knife, or (Everything I do) I Do It for You. As part of the Get Up Tour, the Canadian rockstar is set to wow Qatar all over again; the news having caught on like wildfire that he will perform at the Grand Hyatt Doha on March 15, 2017. 
The Bryan Adams Get Up tour in Qatar is being put together by Alive Entertainment and the Grand Hyatt Doha. Gordon Mackenzie, Managing Director of Alive Entertainment, told Community, “We are excited to bring Bryan Adams back to Qatar with the partnership of the Grand Hyatt Doha. Adams is an amazing performer, come join us and let’s make a night to remember.”
Tickets starting from QR300 will soon go on sale and are expected to be sold out pretty fast, given the wide appeal of Adams’ brand of soft, accessible rock. For more information and to pre-register, you can visit www.bryanadams.me. Adams released his 13th studio album, Get Up, last October. Produced by famed ELO frontman Jeff Lynne and co-written with his long-time collaborator Jim Vallance, the album features nine new songs and four acoustic versions. 
This will be Adams’ second gig in Doha – the first being the Reach Out To Asia concert he performed in February 2006 as part of his Room Service Tour. To a hysteric crowd, Adams had performed some of his greatest hits, including songs off his then latest compilation record, Anthology, in a packed Al Sadd Stadium. All proceeds from the concert had gone to charity in aid of the Reach Out To Asia appeal fund.
In a career spanning a little more than four decades, the singer-songwriter-photographer-philanthropist has not only achieved phenomenal global success but his music continues to endure and his live shows are just as lively and fun as they were a decade or three ago. An early stepping stone to most rock and metal music aficionados and a lifelong companion to those who prefer adorable tunes, simple beats and easy lyrics, Adams’ happy-go-lucky mash of rock music has aged phenomenally well unlike the similar genre of music from other artistes of the 80s and the 90s. 
Adams was barely 17 when he started working in the Vancouver studio scene, as a background vocalist and backing local artistes. It was during those teenage years of fronting pub bands that he met his friend and guitarist Keith Scott, who still plays and tours with him today. At 18, Adams met Jim Vallance, former drummer and principal songwriter of Vancouver-based rock band Prism who had then quit the band to focus on being a studio musician and songwriter; the duo forged a partnership that’s still going strong. 
Nearly 40 years ago, in 1978, Adams was signed to A&M recorded for one dollar. It was in February 1980 that Adams released his self-titled debut album, following it up with You Want It You Got It, the following year. The first lick of big fame and bigger fortune came with Cuts Like a Knife in 1983, which produced hits like Straight from the Heart, This Time, and of course, Cuts Like a Knife. In 1984, Adams backed this up by arguably his most wholesome album till date — Reckless. 
Featuring chart-busting singles like Summer of ’69, Heaven, It’s Only Love, Run to You, Somebody, and One Night Love Affair, Adams’ best-selling album in the US was certified five times platinum. Within six years of signing a one-dollar record label contract, Adams had achieved multi-platinum success with Reckless and had effortlessly begun filling stadiums.
Last year, in an interview with Richard Bienstock for Rolling Stone magazine, Adams looked back on the Reckless days and recalled, “It was a hell of a rollercoaster to suddenly get on.” So much so, in fact, that Adams barely remembers performing in front of roughly 100,000 people at Philadelphia’s JFK Stadium for Live Aid, which came partway through the Reckless jaunt, Bienstock writes. 
“If it wasn’t for the clips that are now out there, I’d have virtually no recollection of it – I’d even forgotten that Jack Nicholson introduced me to the stage,” Adams said, in the piece, “I do remember turning to my guitarist Keith (Scott) onstage on the first night of the US tour and saying, ‘What did we do to make this happen?’ Keith shrugged his shoulders, but the answer was, it was our time.”