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Bryan Adams & Tina Turner - "It's Only Love"
from the album Reckless (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #15 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9

Today's Song of the Day comes from Canadian mainstream rock star Bryan Adams, whose Reckless album had proven to be in the upper echelon of 80s sets, spinning off five top-20 pop hits in the U.S. with "Run To You", "Somebody", "Summer Of '69", "One Night Love Affair", and the #1 ballad "Heaven". Rolling further along Adams' released a sixth single from the 10-track effort, a collaboration with recent comeback story Tina Turner that proclaimed "It's Only Love". Written by Adams with longtime partner Jim Vallance and co-produced with "big-sound" king Bob Clearmountain, the single from the first album's listen seemed like a guaranteed radio hit...

"It's Only Love" became the sixth top-20 pop single from Reckless in America in January of 1986, while also climbing to #7 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart. Internationally, the single made the top-5 in Sweden, and top-20 in Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Adams' native Canada. It would be the last release from the album, and the energy of the record is fitting to close out the Reckless era.

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Here's the pair live together on Tina's birthday...

...and here's Bryan solo...

More recently, American Idol winner Caleb Johnson sang "It's Only Love" with finalist Jena Irene...

Lastly, it's back to Bryan and Tina from the 1993 Rainforest benefit concert...

Up tomorrow: possibly the most "rock and roll" of benefit singles led by a sideman for The Boss.