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Bryan Adams - Somebody

Somebody is a rock song written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance for Adams fourth studio album Reckless (1984).

It was the second single released from the album Reckless.

The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Stewart Mason from Allmusic said "Following the Big Rawk Anthem ("Run to You") and the Sensitive Power Ballad ("Heaven"), "Somebody" covers the third base as a straight-ahead singalong pop song with a killer chorus.

A gift to an entire generation of cover bands working the bar circuit, "Somebody" has a chorus so simple and catchy that you can actually sing along to it even if you've never actually heard the song before, and Adams and his indispensable musical partner, Jim Vallance, helpfully point out the feasibility of said activity by incorporating a large, somewhat ragged group of backing vocalists for the lengthy vamp of a fadeout.

Rather like "Run to You," "Somebody" is just slightly too schematic to qualify as an all-time heartland rock classic, but it still sounds good on the radio."

Chart performance

"Somebody" was released in the winter of 1985 and became one of the most successful songs from Reckless on the American rock charts and arguably one of Adams most recognizable and popular songs. "Somebody" was released worldwide in 1984.

The song was Adams second number one hit on the Top Rock Tracks chart and number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

"Somebody" reached the top twenty on the Canadian album chart and remained in the top twenty for six weeks. "Somebody" was Adams third top twenty hit on the Canadian chart. "Somebody" was released the following month in Europe and peaked at the top twenty in Ireland at number 20 and reached the Top 40 on the UK Singles Chart at 35 and was his third single to chart in Europe.

Music videos

There are two music videos for the song. One features visual footage of Adams and his band performing the song live in a concert hall, with the audience screaming in the background. The other shows Adams walking out of a stadium and through a field, interspersed with shots of him with his guitar, as well as a woman (played by Lysette Anthony) who appears to be having relationship problems with her boyfriend; the video culminates with Adams walking out onto the field of a packed football stadium while a video of him playing the song plays on the big screen.

The lyrics:

I bin lookin' for someone

Between the fire and the flame

We're all lookin' for somethin'

To ease the pain

Now who can you turn to

When it's all black and white

And the winners are losers

You see it every night

I need somebody

Somebody like you

Everybody needs somebody

I need somebody

Hey what about you

Everybody needs somebody

When you're out on the front line

And you're watchin' them fall

It doesn't take long to realize

It ain't worth fightin' for

I thought I saw the Madonna

When you walked in the room

Well your eyes were like diamonds

And they cut right through - oh they cut right through

I need somebody

Somebody like you

Everybody needs somebody

I need somebody

Hey what about you

We all need somebody

Another night another lesson learned

It's the distance keeps us sane

But when the silence leads to sorrow

We do it all again - all again