On Friday (8.02,) Bryan Adams announced that he’s launched his own label called Bad Records.
In celebration of the new venture, the superstar singer/songwriter will drop a double A-sided single featuring two songs, ‘War Machine’ and ‘Rock And Roll Hell,’ that he originally wrote in 1982 with Jim Vallance and Gene Simmons for KISS’ Creatures of the Night LP.
Talking about how he got involved with the KISS album, the Grammy award winning musician said:
“To commemorate the first single on Bad Records, here are two songs I co-wrote when I was a 22-year-old struggling songwriter.” “I got a call out of the blue from producer Michael James Jackson to see if I would like to write for KISS, which I was thrilled to do, and these are a couple of the songs that were the result, written with both Gene Simmons and Jim Vallance.” “While sitting with the band, Gene played me this fantastic bass riff, which ended up being the backbone of War Machine. I was trying to think of a theme that could possibly match the riff and came up with the title. Seeing as the other song we’d written was about hell, War was the obvious theme to coincide with it.”
Now 64- years old, the Canadian-born artist added that he was “very grateful to the KISS guys for giving me the chance back then”.
Accompanied by a music video, ‘Rock and Roll Hell’ has been released digitally and the 7″ vinyl featuring both songs will be follow on August 30.
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Author: Saul Goode
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