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Bryan Adams With his powerfully raspy voice and T-shirt and blue jeans classic rock swagger, Bryan Adams is a pop icon who has scored hit after hit, attaining global fame in the 1980s. A rising star in his native Canada beginning in the late '70s, he first made headway with his 1983 album Cuts Like a Knife. However, it was 1984's Reckless that turned him into an international sensation thanks to the hits "Run to You," "Heaven," and "Summer of '69." From that point on, Adams sold out arenas (much like his contemporaries Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp) and broke chart records, as with his 1991 power ballad "Everything I Do (I Do It for You)." He continued this success with 1994's "All for Love" and 1995's "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman," and remained a formidable presence on the American charts with albums like 1991's Waking Up the Neighbours and 1996's 18 Til I Die. Adams has also retained a loyal audience in the U.K. and Canada, where he's scored Top Ten albums like 2008's 11, 2015's Get Up, and 2019's Juno Award-winning Shine a Light.

Bryan Adams With his powerfully raspy voice and T-shirt and blue jeans classic rock swagger, Bryan Adams is a pop icon who has scored hit after hit, attaining global fame in the 1980s. A rising star in his native Canada beginning in the late '70s, he first made headway with his 1983 album Cuts Like a Knife. However, it was 1984's Reckless that turned him into an international sensation thanks to the hits "Run to You," "Heaven," and "Summer of '69." From that point on, Adams sold out arenas (much like his contemporaries Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp) and broke chart records, as with his 1991 power ballad "Everything I Do (I Do It for You)." He continued this success with 1994's "All for Love" and 1995's "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman," and remained a formidable presence on the American charts with albums like 1991's Waking Up the Neighbours and 1996's 18 Til I Die. Adams has also retained a loyal audience in the U.K. and Canada, where he's scored Top Ten albums like 2008's 11, 2015's Get Up, and 2019's Juno Award-winning Shine a Light.

The composer Mieczysław Weinberg was born in Poland but spent most of his life in the Soviet Union, where he was actively supported by Shostakovich. His rediscovery is still in full swing. As recently as 2015, violinist Linus Roth founded the International Mieczysław Weinberg Society together with conductor Michael Sanderling.

While fronting Roxy Music in the 1970s and early '80s, Bryan Ferry devised a blueprint for art rock, and as a solo performer, he brilliantly updated the parameters of the pop songbook. Although Ferry's solo career has included several excellent self-penned tracks, he's best-known for his adventurous interpretations of songs from the rock and pop canon. Combining a studied, wry, lounge-singer persona with a genuine passion for everything from Motown and Bob Dylan to the Great American Songbook of the 1920s and '30s, Ferry's performances add a post-modern gloss to pop standards. Following rumors of a reunion, Roxy Music re-formed in 2001 and did several tours during the ensuing decade.

Once you hear Billy Strings do his thing, you'll get it. His unhinged flat-picking guitar playing kicks the tradition of bluegrass into new territory with one foot while keeping the other firmly planted in the genre's rich tradition. As a young artist, his songwriting, already scary good, seems to only be improving.

The first Ferry and Roxy collection to include Bryan's most recent work alongside such group and solo masterpieces as Virginia Plain; Street Life; Love Is the Drug; Avalon; More Than This; A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall; Both Ends Burning; Smoke Gets in Your Eyes; Angel Eyes; Over You; The Same Old Scene; Let's Stick Together (Let's Work Together); Sign of the Times, and more. 45 tracks from the most debonair (and complex) singer in rock.

While fronting Roxy Music in the 1970s and early '80s, Bryan Ferry devised a blueprint for art rock, and as a solo performer, he brilliantly updated the parameters of the pop songbook. Although Ferry's solo career has included several excellent self-penned tracks, he's best-known for his adventurous interpretations of songs from the rock and pop canon. Combining a studied, wry, lounge-singer persona with a genuine passion for everything from Motown and Bob Dylan to the Great American Songbook of the 1920s and '30s, Ferry's performances add a post-modern gloss to pop standards. Following rumors of a reunion, Roxy Music re-formed in 2001 and did several tours during the ensuing decade.