From 'Cuts Like a Knife' to 'So Happy It Hurts,' his straightforward sound has lasted decades.
If you need a quick frame, listen to 'Summer of '69' and 'Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?' That's the territory.
He wrote songs that just stuck around. 'Everything I Do (I Do It for You)' was inescapable in the early '90s, and 'Heaven' still gets played at weddings and on classic rock stations. Even a later track like 'Somebody' shows he kept finding that same direct, melodic lane.
He started with a self-titled album in 1983, then Reckless a year later. After the huge success of Waking Up the Neighbours in the early '90s, he kept making albums like Room Service and Get Up with his longtime bandmates.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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