Songoftheday 2/27/19 - When it's love you give I'll be a man of good faith, then in love you live I'll make a stand, I won't break.
from the album The Three Musketeers (Original Soundtrack) (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 20
Today's song of the day combined the strengths of three of the biggest male solo artists in the early 1990s: Canadian rocker Bryan Adams, veteran Scotsman Rod Stewart, and British Police-man Sting. The trio had already been coming off successful singles, with Adams reaching the top ten in the fall of 1993 with "Please Forgive Me", Stewart revisiting his classic "Reason To Believe" and getting it into the top-20 that same fall, and Sting going top-40 with "Fields Of Gold". The three were brought together to record the theme song for the revamped The Three Musketeers movie, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, and Oliver Platt as the titular trio. Written by Adams with Robert "Mutt" Lange and score composer Michael Kamen, the idea I guess was to take Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" and multiply it by three. However the vocal interplay between the three professionals keeps the song from diving into total schlock...
"All For Love" climbed all the way to the top of the American pop chart in January of 1994. Surprisingly, the song only made it to #4 on Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio format chart. Internationally, the record topped the singles chart in Canada, Germany, Italy, Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. It also peaked at #2 in the UK and Belgium and #3 in the Netherlands.
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In 2005, it was just Bryan and his guitar performing "All For Love" at Live 8...
Swedish boy-band-style trio E.M.D. released a cover of "All For Love" that ended up topping the singles chart in Sweden for 6 weeks during the Christmas holidays...
A year later, Bryan sang with Luciano Pavarotti and other friends to sing "All For Love" for the opera setting, with Michael Kamen's orchestra backing them up...
and finally, here's Adams live at the Royal Albert Hall with the song in 2012...
Up tomorrow: Reggae legend might have gotten glasses?
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