You Know What It Is and Who I Do It for
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Unmarried by Bryan Adams | ||||
from the album Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Original Soundtrack) and Waking Upward the Neighbours | ||||
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Released | June 18, 1991 | |||
Recorded | March 1991 | |||
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Label | A&M | |||
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Producer(s) | Robert "Mutt" Lange | |||
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"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" on YouTube | ||||
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"(Everything I Do) I Do Information technology for You" is a power ballad by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams. Written past Adams, Michael Kamen, and Robert John "Mutt" Lange, information technology was the lead unmarried for both the soundtrack album from the 1991 flick Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and Adams'due south 6th studio album, Waking Upwards the Neighbours (1991).
The song was an enormous nautical chart success internationally, reaching the number-ane position on the music charts of at to the lowest degree nineteen countries, notable exceptions in the Western Earth existence Italia (number three) and Espana (number 4). It is especially notable for its success in the United Kingdom, where it spent sixteen sequent weeks at number one on the UK Singles Nautical chart, the longest uninterrupted run e'er on that nautical chart equally of 2022. It besides topped the Europe-wide sales nautical chart for eighteen continuous weeks. In the U.s.a., it topped the Billboard Hot 100, which combines radio airplay and sales, for seven weeks, but stayed at number i for seventeen sequent weeks on the sales-simply chart.[2] Information technology went on to sell more than than 15 million copies worldwide, making it Adams's most successful song, and one of the best-selling singles of all fourth dimension.[three] The song has been covered by hundreds of singers and artists effectually the globe.
Background [edit]
The musicians on the original recording are Adams on lead vocals, bankroll vocals and rhythm guitar, Bill Payne (pianoforte), Mickey Back-scratch (drums), Larry Klein (bass), Keith Scott (pb guitar and backing vocals), and Mutt Lange (synthesizers). Based on orchestral music past Kamen, the song was written in London, UK at the studio Adams was working at in 1990, and he and Lange wrote it in 45 minutes, recording it the following March, and releasing it three months later.[4] The vocal is performed in the central of D ♭ major.[5]
Commercial performance [edit]
In the United Kingdom, "(Everything I Practise) I Do It for You lot" had the longest unbroken run at number one, spending sixteen consecutive weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart from July 7, 1991, to October 27 when information technology dropped to number four.[6] Information technology likewise topped the Europe-wide sales chart for eighteen continuous weeks, all the same an all-time record, and topped the European-wide radio airplay chart for ten weeks.[7]
In the The states, the power carol[eight] spent vii weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, which combines radio airplay and sales, the longest running number one song since 1983, and seventeen sequent weeks at number ane on the sales-only nautical chart, which at the time fix the all-time record for consecutive weeks at one.[2] Billboard ranked information technology as the number-ane popular vocal for 1991.[9] It as well held the number 1 spot on the United states Developed Gimmicky Chart for eight consecutive weeks, the longest run atop that nautical chart since 1979, and was the number one song of the year on that chart.[x]
"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" also spent 9 weeks atop the singles nautical chart in Adams'due south native Canada,[eleven] eleven weeks atop the Australian Singles Chart, and twelve weeks atop the Sweden Singles Chart. In virtually of the countries which hit ascended to number 1, it was the number 1 song for the year 1991, exceptions existence Deutschland (number two), Austria (number two) and Switzerland (number iii).
Music videos [edit]
The official music video for the vocal was directed by Julien Temple.[12] It shows Adams and his band performing the song in a forest with a silk mill in the groundwork, and Adams alone performing on a rocky beachside, intercut with scenes from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The video was filmed in a forest with the derelict silk mill virtually Holford in the Quantock Hills and on a beach with geological cliff formations virtually Kilve, Somerset.[xiii] [14] A video was also commissioned for a live version of the song, directed by Andy Morahan.[xv]
Awards and accolades [edit]
Adams, Kamen, and Lange won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television,[16] and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Tape of the Twelvemonth at the Grammy Awards of 1992. Information technology was likewise nominated for an University Laurels for All-time Original Vocal, but lost to "Dazzler and the Animate being."[17] As recently as July 2020, information technology placed at number 13 on YouTube'southward "Most Listened to Stone Inaugural", a monthly tally of the most viewed and listened to songs of the rock genre, both in current release and from the past; this was the second highest song by Adams' subsequently "Please Forgive Me" at number 10.[eighteen] The song was placed 18th in a survey of the favourite songs of British readers of the Guinness Volume of Records.[19]
Charts [edit]
Sales and certifications [edit]
Fatima Mansions version [edit]
The Irish band Fatima Mansions released a heavily altered embrace of the song equally part of an NME tribute album in aid of the charity, the Spastics Order.[81] The unmarried was a double A-side with the Manic Street Preachers' version of "Suicide Is Painless". The single entered the UK summit ten in 1992,[81] and reached number 12 in the Republic of Ireland.[82] Even so, the Manic Street Preachers vocal received most of the Uk radio airplay.[81] [83]
Brandy version [edit]
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from the anthology Never Say Never | ||||
Released | 1999 | |||
Length | 4:06 | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
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Producer(s) | David Foster | |||
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"(Everything I Exercise) I Exercise It for Y'all" on YouTube | ||||
American singer Brandy rerecorded "(Everything I Do) I Do Information technology for You lot" for the standard version of her 2d studio anthology, Never Say Never (1998). Producer David Foster reworked the arrangement of the original song, with Dean Parks playing the acoustic guitar.
In 1999, her cover version was released as the album'southward final single on a double A-side with "U Don't Know Me" on the Oceanic music market, where it reached the top thirty of New Zealand'southward RIANZ singles chart. That same yr, she performed the song live at VH1 Divas Alive '99 alongside Organized religion Hill.
Track listings [edit]
- Australian CD single [84]
- "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You lot" – 4:10
- "U Don't Know Me" – 4:29
- "Have Y'all E'er?" (Soul Skank Remix) – 5:40
Credits and personnel [edit]
Credits are taken from Never Say Never liner notes.[85]
- Composer – Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen, R.J. Lange
- Production – David Foster
- Acoustic guitar – Dean Parks
- Electric guitar – Michael Thompson
- Programming – Felipe Elgueta
- Mixing – Tom Bough
- Recording – Al Schmitt
Charts [edit]
See also [edit]
- List of Hot Developed Contemporary number ones of 1991
- Listing of European number-one airplay songs of the 1990s
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