— by Jim Vallance
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Kids Wanna Rock — by Jim Vallance & Bryan Adams
Turned on the radio Sounded like a disco Musta turned the dial for a couple of miles But I couldn’t find no rock and roll This computerized crap ain’t getting me off Everywhere I go the kids wanna rock
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The Background of the Song
The idea for “Kids Wanna Rock” began one summer night in 1984 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, where Bryan and I and my wife Rachel had gone to see a performance by Thomas Dolby.
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Around the world or around the block Everywhere I go the kids wanna rock
Get me my DJ I’ve got something he’s gotta play Wanna hear it I can’t wait So turn it up, turn it up …
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Around the world or around the block Everywhere I go the kids wanna rock
Everywhere I go t来自e kids wanna rock
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1. An English Song — Kids Wanna Rock 2. The Sixties’ “Youth Counterculture” 3. Hippy / Hippie 4. Background Information 5. Introductory Remarks 6. Words or Phrases Related to the Topic
Kick down the barricades Listen what the kids say From time to time people change their minds But the music is here to stay I’ve seen it all from the bottom to the top Everywhere I go the kids wanna rock
We wrote most of “Kids Wanna Rock” the next day. We based the song on another idea we’d been developing. Just as Paul McCartney used “Scrambled Eggs” as a temporary title for “Yesterday”, Bryan and I had a temporary lyric before we settled on “Kids Wanna Rock”. Instead of “Around the world or around the block, everywhere I go the kids wanna rock”, we had “What’s Sir Lew Grade got against me, I can’t get my songs on the BBC” ... an accurate reflection of Bryan’s inability at the time to get airplay on UK radio.
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London to LA Talking about the New Wave For a couple of bucks you get a weird haircut And waste your life away
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With all the electronic sounds and robotic posturing, we found the performance to be somewhat lacking emotionally. Unable to endure another “sine-wave”, twenty minutes into the concert we quietly slipped out of the theatre and went up the street for a bite to eat. While discussing the Dolby performance over dinner, one of us remarked how, really, the kids just “wanna rock”.