Waking Up the Neighbours

Studio album by Bryan Adams

Released

September 24, 1991

Recorded

March 1990—June 1991 at Battery Studios, England and the Warehouse Studios, Canada

Genre

Hard rock, melodic rock

Length

74:52

Label

A&M

Producer

Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange

Bryan Adams chronology

Into the Fire
(1987)

Waking Up the Neighbours
(1991)

So Far So Good
(1993)

Singles from Waking Up the Neighbours

"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
Released: June 18, 1991
"Can't Stop This Thing We Started"
Released: October 9, 1991
"There Will Never Be Another Tonight"
Released: November 10, 1991
"Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven"
Released: February 10, 1992
"All I Want Is You"
Released: 1992
"Do I Have to Say the Words?"
Released: July 1992
"Touch the Hand"
Released: 1992

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Robert Christgau
Entertainment Weekly	B−
Rolling Stone
Los Angeles Times
Chicago Tribune

Waking Up the Neighbours is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams released in 1991. The album was recorded at Battery Studios in London, and at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, mixed at Mayfair Studios in London, and mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk in New York City. "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" was number one on the British charts for a record-breaking 16 weeks. The album sold more than 16 million copies worldwide.

The album was also notable in Canada for creating controversy concerning the system of Canadian content.

The album was recorded at Battery Studios in England and the Warehouse Studios in Canada. Recording began in March 1990, and along with mixing, finished in June 1991. Robert John "Mutt" Lange, previously known for his work with AC/DC, Foreigner, and Def Leppard, was helping Adams' writing the songs for his next album. Adams' spent much of his time in Hindhead and London, England with Lange working on his sixth album.

"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" was the most successful single off the album, and has become one of the most successful songs of all time. Internationally, spending seven weeks at number one in the United States' Billboard Hot 100, sixteen consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart (the longest in British chart history), eleven weeks on the Dutch Top 40 and nine weeks at number one on the Canadian singles chart in Canada. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television at the 1992 Grammy Awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song of 1991.

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