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Raspy-voiced crooner Bryan Adams performs here tomorrow

BREAKING BARRIERS Bryan Adams's Karachi concert was the first by a Western musician in Pakistan since 9/11

The hugely popular Canadian rock star Bryan Adams is back at the Palace Grounds on February 5. Adams is coming in from Karachi and Doha and is performing at Mumbai today and Bangalore tomorrow and then he is off to South Africa. Quite a jet-setting pace, that. The Bryan Adams Third Time Lucky Live in Concert (brought by DNA Networks) is his third tour of India in five years.

Rebuilding effort

The performer's Reach Out Asia tour began at Karachi where he pledged to help rebuild schools destroyed by earthquake in Pakistan. His concert saw more than 10,000 fans and is the first by a Western musician in Pakistan since the "war on terror" after the World Trade Center attack. In fact, it the first in the last two decades.

The show with its message ("Give it to me straight from the heart. Tell me we can make one more start") saw Pakistan's yuppie crowd dancing to all his popular tunes. Adams arrived in Pakistan's biggest city just days after the U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory for Americans, citing concerns about terrorism. Bryan Adams, who has performed in countries across West Asia, said he hoped the Karachi concert would set an example for other western musicians to follow. Having also performed in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Dubai, Oman and India, he says: "I met nothing but lovely people there."

In Mumbai and Bangalore, this raspy-voiced, energetic and entertaining singer with a very straightforward rock style will belt out his classic hits from over the last 25 years that he has compiled in his latest release, Anthology. He told Songwriter Universe Magazine that Anthology was the idea of Richie Gallo at the U.S. record company, Universal. "I ended up changing the selection of songs a few times to get something that wasn't just a hits package. It was an interesting project as it pushed me to dig up photos and technical notes from the '80s and '90s of when songs were written, recorded and mixed and so on. Basically, it was a trip down memory lane."

Adams, who made his last album Room Service in 2004, says his next one is round the corner. "It's coming along. I expect it will come out at the end (this year)... God willing!"

Bryan Adams Third Time Lucky Live in Concert is at Palace Grounds on February 5. For ticket details log into www.dnalive.com

G.N.P.

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