ABOVE: Bryan Adams performs a classic track from the Wall with Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters.
BELOW: Adams performs one of his classic hits.
The Canadian post office (Canada Post) is issuing a series of stamps honoring famous Canadian musicians and composers. While Canadian pop monstrosities like Nickelback, Celine Dion, Alanis Morissette and Rush won’t be showing up in your mailbox any time soon, ’80s superstar Bryan Adams might.
Known for hits such as “Summer of ‘69,” “Run to You,” and sappy prom/wedding favorite “Everything I Do, I Do it for You,” Adams is among the first Canadian music stars to receive this, um, honor.
Oddly enough, this probably is quite an honor for the singer, since Adams seems to be something of a postage enthusiast: In 2004 the Canada Post issued a stamp featuring one of his photographs of Queen Elizabeth II. The Sex Pistols would not be impressed.
In addition to his music career and photography, Adams works with a charitable organization called, fittingly enough, The Bryan Adams Foundation. Although the group’s vague motto (”Helping People Help People”) reminds us of the fake Human Fund charity from Seinfeld (”Money for People”), the organization actually works to advance education and learning opportunities for children and young people worldwide.
Edith Butler, Stompin’ Tom Connors and Robert Charlebois will join Adams in the mailboxes of Canadian stamp collectors and philatelists starting July 2, 2009.
We’re sure there’s some sort of lowbrow joke about licking Bryan Adams hiding in plain sight, but we’re going to ignore it, because we’re classier than that. Ahem.
BELOW: Bryan Adams, Johnny Depp and some Zorro masks. Ah, the ’90s…
