BRYAN ADAMS - ADAMS: 'I BECAME A SINGER BY ACCIDENT'

Rocker BRYAN ADAMS never wanted to be a singer - and only took up the vocal calling when no one else in his earliest band would. The 48-year-old desperately wanted to be a guitarist as a teenager, but admits he never considered stepping in front of a microphone until he was forced to. He recalls, "I wanted to be a guitar player. I wanted to be the guy at the back of the stage, not the front, but I knew there weren't many singers around and I'd kind of worked out how to sing while walking to school. "Aged 14, with my mates from school, we were fooling around, making a recording. We asked each other who was going to sing. I said, 'Umm, okay, I'll sing,' and I did." And the Summer Of '69 hitmaker insists his bandmates were left stunned by his talent: "After I'd sung no one said anything. There was this stunned silence. I was like, 'Was I that bad?' But at that point I figured that I could sing pretty good."