{"id":4809,"date":"2011-12-04T19:11:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T03:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2011-12-04T19:13:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T03:13:36","slug":"bryan-adams-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/04\/bryan-adams-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Adams Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Re: Rhinofy-Cuts Like A Knife
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Hi Bob,<\/p>\n

Thanks for the generous tribute, very kind.<\/p>\n

I wrote ‘Straight From The Heart" and "I’m Ready" in 1978 when I was 18, ("I’m Ready" was written with Jim Vallance)
I spent hours on a piano that i’d bought from savings my parents had put aside for my education, just trying to figure out chords and arpeggios. It was good fun and the result was a few decent songs which I still play today.<\/p>\n

Back then I was looking for a foot in the door, and I knew that songs were the only way in, Jim would lend me bus fare so we could meet up and write.<\/p>\n

The result eventually was I signed an extraordinarily poor deal on the premise that I would get myself heard and our songs would get released.<\/p>\n

Years later, after the platinum success of "Cuts Like A Knife" which you revere in your email, my royalty statement was next to zero. <\/p>\n

This was due to my paying back the record company for the three records I’d made in three years on a very low royalty, plus paying for some tour support which Bruce Allen my manager had arranged they contribute to.
Being skint and undeterred is one of the beauties of youth, I was doing what I wanted and I could see the possibilities out there if we kept at it. I had resigned myself to the fact that If we were able to write a few more decent songs, we’d work the business out later and luckily…the songs kept coming.<\/p>\n

Your friend,
bryan<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Re: Rhinofy-Cuts Like A Knife Hi Bob, Thanks for the generous tribute, very kind. I wrote ‘Straight From The Heart" and "I’m Ready" in 1978 when I was 18, ("I’m Ready" was written with Jim Vallance)I spent hours on a piano that i’d bought from savings my parents had put aside for my education, just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-business","category-the-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-1fz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4812,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}