(Everything I Do) I Do It for You

"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
Single by Bryan Adams
from the album Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves soundtrack and Waking Up the Neighbours
B-side	"She's Only Happy When She's Dancing" (Live in Belgium 1989)
Released	June 18, 1991
Format	7" CD
Recorded	March 1991
Genre	Soft rock[1]
Length	6:34 (album version) 4:06 (single version)
Label	A&M
Writer(s)	Bryan Adams Michael Kamen Robert "Mutt" Lange
Producer(s)	Robert "Mutt" Lange
Certification	3× Platinum (RIAA)
Bryan Adams singles chronology
"Only the Strong Survive" (1987) "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" (1991) "Can't Stop This Thing We Started" (1991)
Music video "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" on YouTube Music sample "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"

"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" is a song by Canadian singer and songwriter Bryan Adams. Written by Adams, Michael Kamen and Robert John "Mutt" Lange, featured on two albums simultaneously on its release, the soundtrack album from the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and on Adams' sixth studio solo album Waking Up the Neighbours (1991). The song was an enormous chart success internationally, particularly in the United Kingdom, where it spent sixteen consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart (the longest in British chart history), seven weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and nine weeks atop the Canadian Singles Chart in Adams's native Canada.^[1][2] Billboard ranked it as the No. 1 song for 1991.^[3] At the time of its seven-week stint in America, it was the longest running #1 since The Police's "Every Breath You Take" spent eight weeks at #1 during the summer of 1983. It was a number one hit on many charts and went on to sell more than 15 million copies worldwide, making it Adams' most successful song and one of the best-selling singles of all time.^[4]

Adams, Kamen and Lange won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television at the Grammy Awards of 1992,^[5] and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song but lost to "Beauty and the Beast".^[6] Subsequently, the song has been covered by hundreds of singers and artists around the world.

Background

The musicians on the original recording are Adams on lead vocals and guitar, Bill Payne (piano), Mickey Curry (drums), Larry Klein (bass), Keith Scott (guitar) and Mutt Lange (keyboards and background vocals). The song was written in London at the studio Adams was working at in 1990, and he and Lange wrote it in 45 minutes.^[7][8] The song is performed in the key of D ♭ major.

Music videos

The official music video for the song was directed by Julien Temple.^[9] A video was also commissioned for a live version of the song, directed by Andy Morahan.^[10]

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts Chart (1991–93) Peak position Australia (ARIA)[11] 1 Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[12] 1 Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[13] 1 Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)[14] 1 Canada Top Singles (RPM)[15] 1 Denmark (IFPI) 1 Europe (Eurochart Hot 100) 1 Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[16] 1 France (SNEP)[17] 1 Germany (Official German Charts)[18] 1 Ireland (IRMA)[19] 1 Italy (FIMI)[20] 1 Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[21] 1 New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[22] 1 Norway (VG-lista)[23] 1 Spain (AFYVE)[24] 1 Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[25] 1 Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[26] 1 UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[27] 1 US Billboard Hot 100[28] 1 US Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks[1] 1 US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks[1] 1

Year-end charts Chart (1991) Position Australia (ARIA)[29] 1 New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[30] 1 UK Singles Chart 1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[31] 1 Dutch Top 40 1 Decade-end charts Chart (1990–1999) Position UK Singles Chart 7 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[32] 37 Sales and certifications Region Certification Certified units/Sales Australia (ARIA)[33] 2× Platinum 140,000^^ Austria (IFPI Austria)[34] Platinum 50,000^* Canada (Music Canada)[35] 2× Platinum 200,000^^ France (SNEP)[36] Gold 508,000[37] Germany (BVMI)[38] Platinum 500,000^^ Sweden (GLF)[39] Platinum 50,000^^ United Kingdom (BPI)[40] 2× Platinum 1,820,000[41] United States (RIAA)[42] 3× Platinum 4,100,000[43] ^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone

Fatima Mansions version

The Irish band Fatima Mansions released a heavily altered cover of the song as part of an NME tribute album in aid of the charity, the Spastics Society.^[44] The single was a double A-side with the Manic Street Preachers' version of "Suicide Is Painless". The single entered the UK top ten in 1992,^[44] and reached number 12 in the Republic of Ireland^[45] However, The Manic Street Preachers song received most of the UK radio airplay.^[44][46]

Brandy version

"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
Single by Brandy
from the album Never Say Never
Released	September 28, 1999
Format	CD digital download
Recorded	1998
Genre	Pop R&B
Length	4:06
Label	Atlantic
Writer(s)	Bryan Adams Michael Kamen Robert "Mutt" Lange
Producer(s)	David Foster
Brandy singles chronology
"U Don't Know Me" (1998) "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" (1999) "Never Say Never" (2000)

American singer Brandy rerecorded "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" for the standard version of second studio album Never Say Never (1998). Producer David Foster reworked the arrangement of the original song, with Dean Parks playing the acoustic guitar.

In 1999, her cover version was released as the album's final single on a double A-side with "U Don't Know Me" on the Oceanic music market, where it reached the top 30 of New Zealand's RIANZ singles chart.

Track listings

• Australian CD single^[47]

1. "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" – 4:10
2. "U Don't Know Me" – 4:29
3. "Have You Ever?" (Soul Skank Remix) – 5:40

Credits and personnel

Credits are taken from Never Say Never liner notes.^[48]

• Composer – Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen, R.J. Lange
• Production – David Foster
• Acoustic guitar – Dean Parks
• Electric guitar – Michael Thompson
• Programming – Felipe Elgueta
• Mixing – Tom Bender
• Recording – Al Schmitt

Charts

Chart	Peak position
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[49]	28

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External links

• Allmusic.com article on Waking Up The Neighbours