If you haven’t spent your teen years headbanging to ‘Summer Of 69’, are you even a fan of Bryan Adams’ music? Well, there’s also ‘Everything I Do’ and ‘Please Forgive Me’ that you have crooned to. That is what makes the Canadian rocker such a timeless musician in India for all the 90s kids who grew up listening to him through their dial-up song channel on local cable or at parties that ended in a couple dance. It is definitely one of the many reasons why he has been visiting the country over the last 30 years. He will be visiting India for the sixth time this December for his 'So Happy It Hurts' world tour. While this is going to be a six-city tour, the first visit still feels like yesterday for the Canadian singer-songwriter.

In fact, Adams, who is known for many other hits like ‘Heaven’ and ‘Run To You’, shares, “My favourite memory of India is the first concert. We played in Mumbai in 1993. It was an absolutely packed cricket ground, and they had divided the ground in half with wooden posts, so on one side you had the audience, many of whom were in the traditional costumes, and on the other side of the wooden fence was the cricket club... drinking tea.” It is reminiscent of the city’s love for music while co-existing with cricket and its many other forms of entertainment. The city faces close competition from another major performance venue. “One of my favourite cities to play in the world is Madison Square Garden NYC,” he adds. So, what keeps him coming back? It is no wonder that Adams says he really enjoys the audiences, but his visits are also sprinkled with travel because he loves seeing new parts of the country because of how enormous India is.