(Everything I Do) I Do It for You

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"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
Single by Bryan Adams
from the album Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves soundtrack and Waking Up the Neighbours
B-side "She's Only Happy When She's Dancing" (live)
Released June 18, 1991
Format
Recorded March 1991
Genre Soft rock[1]
Length 6:32
Label A&M
Writer(s)
Producer(s) Lange
Certification 3× Platinum (RIAA)
Bryan Adams singles chronology
"Only the Strong Survive"
(1987)		 "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
(1991)		 "Can't Stop This Thing We Started"
(1991)
Music video
"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" on YouTube
Music sample
"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"

"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" is a song by Canadian singer and songwriter Bryan Adams. Written by Adams, Michael Kamen and Robert John "Mutt" Lange, featured on two albums simultaneously on its release, the soundtrack album from the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and on Adams' sixth studio solo album Waking Up the Neighbours (1991). The song was an enormous chart success internationally, particularly in the United Kingdom, where it spent sixteen consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart (the longest in British chart history), seven weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and nine weeks atop the Canadian Singles Chart in Adams's native Canada.[1][2] Billboard ranked it as the No. 1 song for 1991.[3] It was a number one hit on many charts and went on to sell more than 15 million copies worldwide, making it Adams' most successful song and one of the best-selling singles of all time.[4]

Adams, Kamen and Lange won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television at the Grammy Awards of 1992,[5] and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song but lost to "Beauty & the Beast".[6] Subsequently, the song has been covered by hundreds of singers and artists around the world.

The song is performed in the key of D ♭ major

Background

The musicians on the original recording are Adams on lead vocals and guitar, Bill Payne (Piano), Mickey Curry (drums), Larry Klein (bass), Keith Scott (guitar) and Mutt Lange (keyboards and background vocals). The song was written in London at the studio Adams was working at in 1990, and apparently written in less than an hour.[7]

Music videos

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Charts and certifications

Fatima Mansions version

The Irish band Fatima Mansions released a heavily altered cover of the song as part of an NME tribute album in aid of the charity, the Spastics Society.[43] The single was a double A-side with the Manic Street Preachers' version of "Suicide Is Painless". The single entered the UK Top Ten in 1992,[43] and reached number 12 in the Republic of Ireland[44] However, The Manic Street Preachers song received most of the UK radio airplay.[43][45]

Brandy version

"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
Single by Brandy
from the album Never Say Never
Released September 28, 1999
Format CD single, download
Recorded 1998
Genre
Length 4:06
Label Atlantic
Producer(s) David Foster
Brandy singles chronology
"U Don't Know Me"
(1998)		 "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
(1999)		 "Never Say Never"
(2000)

American recording artist Brandy rerecorded "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" for the standard version of second studio album 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's final single on a double A-side with "U Don't Know Me" on the Oceanic music market, where it reached the top 30 of New Zealand's RIANZ singles chart.

Track listings

  • Australian CD single[46]
  1. "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" – 4:10
  2. "U Don't Know Me" – 4:29
  3. "Have You Ever?" (Soul Shank Remix) – 5:40

Credits and personnel

Credits are taken from Never Say Never liner notes.[47]

Charts

Chart Peak
position
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[48] 28

References

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External links

Preceded by Irish Singles Chart number-one single (first run)
July 4, 1991 – September 5, 1991		 Succeeded by
"Hay Wrap" by The Saw Doctors
Preceded by UK number-one single
July 7, 1991 – October 26, 1991		 Succeeded by
"The Fly" by U2
Preceded by
"Read My Lips" by Melissa
 ARIA Charts number-one single
July 22, 1991 – October 6, 1991		 Succeeded by
"Love Thy Will Be Done" by Martika
Preceded by Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
July 27, 1991 – September 7, 1991		 Succeeded by
"Promise of a New Day" by Paula Abdul
Preceded by Dutch Top 40 number-one single
August 10, 1991 – October 19, 1991		 Succeeded by
"James Brown Is Dead" by L.A. Style
Preceded by Eurochart Hot 100
July 27, 1991 – November 23, 1991		 Succeeded by
"Black or White" by Michael Jackson
Preceded by Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one single
August 3 – September 21, 1991		 Succeeded by
"Time, Love and Tenderness" by Michael Bolton
Preceded by Cash Box Top 100 Singles
August 3, 1991 – September 7, 1991		 Succeeded by
"Promise of a New Day" by Paula Abdul
Preceded by RPM number-one single (Canada)
August 3, 1991 – September 28, 1991		 Succeeded by
"The Motown Song" by Rod Stewart
Preceded by RIANZ number-one single
August 16, 1991 – October 4, 1991		 Succeeded by
"All 4 Love by Color Me Badd
Preceded by Irish Singles Chart number-one single (second run)
October 3, 1991		 Succeeded by
"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" by Monty Python
Preceded by French SNEP number-one single
October 12, 1991 – November 30, 1991		 Succeeded by
"Qui a le droit..." by Patrick Bruel
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  45. ↑ Nick Dale, "Fatima Mansions" in Peter Buckley (ed.) The Rough Guide To Rock.London; Rough Guides, 2003 ISBN 1843531054 (p. 364).
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