In old age, singer Bryan Adams mainly writes songs that convey confidence. Right now? A conversation about concerts in the pandemic, gardening as therapy and the simple joys of life.
Bryan Adams isn’t just happy, he is, according to his new album, which was recorded before the war: “So Happy It Hurts”. So painfully happy. On the album, his unmistakable 90-bar smokers’ league throat sings lines like this: “The sun is shinin’ and there is no more rain.” He must be able to give us something of that. In the zoom call without a picture, a good-humored optimist is sitting in a Cologne hotel suite, who, before the conversation really begins, even says a kind word to the room service that bursts in.