Bryan Adams has started his own label.
The Canadian singer-songwriter revealed his own record label, Bad Records, on Friday.
Adams penned two songs, War Machine and Rock and Roll Hell, with Jim Vallance and Gene Simmons for KISS’s 1982 album Creatures of the Night. To commemorate the release, Adams is putting out a double A-side single.
The Grammy-winning musician gave an explanation of his involvement with Creatures of the Night in a recent statement.
“To commemorate the first single on Bad Records, here are two songs I co-wrote when I was a 22-year-old struggling songwriter,” said him. “I got a call out of the blue from producer Michael James Jackson to see if I would like to write for KISS, which I was thrilled to do, and these are a couple of the songs that were the result, written with both Gene Simmons and Jim Vallance.”
“While sitting with the band, Gene played me this fantastic bass riff, which ended up being the backbone of War Machine,” continued the Summer of ’69 hitmaker. I came up with the title while attempting to come up with a possible theme to go along with the riff. The natural theme to go along with the other song we wrote, which was about hell, was war.”
“Very grateful to the KISS guys for giving me the chance back then,” stated 64-year-old Adams.
Adams became well-known after working with the rockers, putting out successful albums like Cuts Like a Knife and Reckless.
A music video has been published along with the digital release of Rock and Roll Hell. The 7-inch record
