Watch Bryan Adams join Taylor Swift onstage in Toronto for Summer Of ’69

By Scott Munro
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Bryan Adams teams up with Taylor Swift in Toronto to play live version of his 1984 Reckless classic Summer Of '69

(Image credit: Jason Kempin/TAS18 - Getty)

American singer/songwriter Taylor Swift played a show at Toronto’s Rogers Centre over the weekend, where she was joined onstage by Bryan Adams.

The pair launched into Adams’ classic 1984 track Summer Of ’69, which appeared on the Canadian vocalist and guitarist’s fourth studio album Reckless.

Introducing the song, Swift said: “It’s one of my favourite songs ever written – it’s not one of mine! You guys have been singing so loud all night, but I really want to see how loud it could be. So if you’ve been saving your voice for a moment in the show, this is the moment.”

Both Adams and Swift shared videos on social media of the performance, which can be seen below, along with the song itself.

Adams played a show at the city’s Scotiabank Arena – formerly the Air Canada Centre – the previous night, where he previewed two new songs Ultimate Love and Please Stay.

His last studio album was 2015’s Get Up.

Rehearsing the trap door entrance last night, filmed and narrated by @taylorswift ❤️ #soundcheck #behindthescenes #taylorswift #imatoad Bryan Adams (opens in new tab)

A photo posted by @bryanadams on Aug 5, 2018 at 5:11am PDT

I didn’t even know Bryan was gonna be in town until last night and I asked him completely last minute if he wanted to come sing!! Pretty evident from the videos (um yes I’m posting another one) that I’m FULLY LOSING IT with excitement, and I can’t thank @bryanadams enough ✨⭐️💫 Taylor Swift (opens in new tab)

A photo posted by @taylorswift on Aug 4, 2018 at 11:15pm PDT

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.