Straight from the Heart (song)

"Straight from the Heart"
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Single by Bryan Adams
from the album Cuts Like a Knife
B-side	"One Good Reason"
Released	February 1983 (US)
Format	7"
Genre	Soft rock
Length	3:32
Label	A&M
Songwriter(s)	Bryan Adams, Eric Kagna
Producer(s)	Bryan Adams and Bob Clearmountain
Bryan Adams singles chronology
"Lonely Nights" (1982) "Straight from the Heart" (1983) "Cuts Like a Knife" (1983)
"Lonely Nights" (1982) "Straight from the Heart" (1983) "Cuts Like a Knife" (1983)
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"Straight from the Heart" is a song by Canadian rock musician Bryan Adams. It was released in February 1983 as the lead single from his third studio album, Cuts Like a Knife. It was his breakthrough song in the U.S., the first to make the top 40, reaching number 10.^[1] It also peaked at #32 on the Adult Contemporary chart, the first Bryan Adams single to appear on that chart.

Background

Adams wrote the song when he was 18 in the late 1970s. Although Adams did not release his version of the song until 1983, the song was first recorded by Ian Lloyd in 1980, on his album Third Wave Civilization.^[2] Australian singer Jon English recorded the song for his 1981 album, In Roads. The song peaked at number 72 in Australia. Later, the song was covered by teen band Rosetta Stone in 1982 (issued as a single in November that year, a month before Adams' version came out as a single). Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler released it on a 45 in the US in May 1983. It was featured on her 1983 album Faster Than the Speed of Night.

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