He described her as “queen of all my dreams” in his song Diana, stating, “The day he married you, I almost went crazy.”
Now, Bryan Adams has spoken for the first time about his friendship with the late Princess Diana, revealing it was sparked by her amusement at lyrics he wrote about her.
The Canadian singer, now 64, was rumored to have begun an affair with Diana in the 1990s, speculation that grew after his ex-girlfriend Cecilie Thomsen publicly said that “our relationship was a stormy one and that Bryan’s affair with Diana did not saved. easier.’
Diana meets Bryan Adams after a pop concert in Vancouver during her 1986 tour of Canada
When Diana met the man who wrote a song proclaiming his love for her
Bryan Adams, Elton John and Ringo Starr sing together during a concert for the Prince’s Trust
But he recently avoided addressing the rumors, instead painting a picture of a touching friendship in which the pair “had very, very good conversations” after meeting on the plane.
He told her he had used her name in a song and she replied, “Yes, I know, very funny. Actually, I’d like to hear it again.’
He sent a copy to Kensington Palace and she invited him for tea.
‘It’s actually strange and surreal to think about. “I really loved Diana, she was an amazing woman and a huge inspiration,” he said during the Sunday Times interview.
‘Meeting her was truly one of the most beautiful things that ever happened to me.’
Adams, best known for hits such as Everything I Do (I Do It For You), Summer of 69 and Heaven, was one of the major pop stars who met Diana before her death in 1997.
A huge music fan whose love of pop began during her time at West Heath boarding school in Sevenoaks, Kent, she was thrilled that her position as Princess of Wales gave her the chance to mingle with many of her idols, from Duran Duran to Elton John. .
Duran Duran were famously her favorite group and she was believed to have danced in front of her mirror at Kensington Palace, listening to their hit Girls On Film on her Sony Walkman.
She attended a series of their live shows and met them several times. At Diana’s memorial concert in 2006, Simon Le Bon said, “We are honored that she always called Duran Duran her favorite band, as she was certainly our favorite princess.”
One of the band’s performances, at London’s Dominion Theater in 1983, could have ended in disaster due to an IRA plot to kill the princess and her then husband Prince Charles, but the man tasked with installing the gelignite bomb was actually a police informant who foiled this. the plan.
Speaking to the Mail on Sunday, the Duran Duran bassist said: ‘They wanted to kill Diana and Charles and everyone in the room. It was so shocking. We weren’t told about it until years later, but it was very frightening.”
Last year, Taylor also revealed that the band’s music was a passion Diana shared with her two children.
Princess Diana laughs with Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Simon Le Bon at the royal premiere of View to a Kill
Charles and Diana attend the Prince’s Trust Rock Gala at the Dominion Theater in 1983
Princess Diana went backstage and shook hands with Andy Taylor after the gala ended
Princess Diana meeting Simon and Yasmin le Bon at the Help a London Child’Charity Appeal at Cafe Royal in 1991
Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran performs on stage during the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium that Princes William and Harry hosted in 2007 to celebrate their mother’s life
William and Harry chat with Simon le Bon and Nick Rhodes after the Diana concert in 2007
“When we met William and Harry, they said, ‘Oh, we were in the backseat and Mom was playing Wild Boys and we were singing along,’” he recalled.
‘That stuck with me, that the little boys said ‘Wild Boys!’ and that would be a moment for them.”
George Michael was another star she shared a deep bond with. The latest series of The Crown features two of its songs – Fast Love and Spinning the Wheel – which explore her long-standing friendship with the former Wham! star, who died in 2016.
The pair – two of the biggest celebrities of their time – first met in 1985 at the Live Aid concert at Wembley.
She was reportedly in love with Michael and told him she thought he was “very beautiful,” to which he replied, “Thank you ma’am, you’re quite crushed.”
According to Michael’s biographer James Gavin, “Thus began the awkward twelve-year friendship between a lovelorn aristocrat and a closeted sex idol.”
The pair called each other “honey” and Michael gave her a gold watch.
In 2011, he spoke about their relationship, saying, “I think we clicked in a way that was a little intangible, and it probably had more to do with our upbringing than anything else.”
She was very much like many women in my life who are attracted to me because they see something non-threatening.
Maybe because I care for my sisters and am so protective of my sisters, women seem to sense that.”
Princess Diana meets George Michael, KD Lang and Mick Hucknall at the annual World AIDS Day concert at Wembley Arena in 1993
Diana and George the following year at A Concert of Hope
Princess Diana first met George Michael at the Live Aid concert in 1985
He also suggested that Diana would have liked the friendship to become romantic, despite him being gay:
‘Certain things happened that made it clear that she was very attracted to me. There was no way,” he said, adding that they were never intimate because “I knew it would be a disastrous thing to do.”
He was devastated after her death in the Paris car crash in August 1997. After her funeral, he said it reminded him of the death of his mother, Lesley, six months earlier.
‘I was bawling my eyes out. “It was almost like reliving my mother’s funeral,” he said.
It’s impossible to think of Diana’s funeral without thinking of Sir Elton John’s moving performance of Candle in the Wind, with new lyrics written especially for her.
They first met at Prince Andrew’s birthday party in 1981, and Sir Elton was struck by what he described as her ‘incredible social ease, an ability to make people feel completely at ease in her company.’
The night Elton and Diana met at Prince Andrew’s bachelor party
Diana, Princess of Wales with singer Elton John at a television awards ceremony in 1993
Elton John chatted to Princess Diana as she attended a charity performance of Tango Argentino in aid of the National Aids Trust at the Aldwych Theater in London in 1991
Elton’s moving performance of ‘Candle in the Wind’ at Diana’s funeral
They hit it off immediately and became good friends. At Gianni Versace’s funeral, just weeks before Diana’s own death, she was photographed leaning over to comfort Sir Elton, although he later claimed that what she had actually said was: “God, I’d love a polo.’
Just six weeks later, he was devastated again when he learned of her fatal car accident.
It was Sir Richard Branson who, with the blessing of the Spencer family, approached Elton with the idea of rewriting his 1973 song Candle in the Wind – originally about Marilyn Monroe – for Diana’s funeral.
The opening lyrics were changed from ‘Goodbye Norma Jean, though I never knew you at all’ to ‘Goodbye England’s rose, may you ever grow in our hearts’ – so that Diana would be remembered as England’s rose.
