"Summer of '69" is a song recorded by the Canadian singer Bryan Adams from his fourth album, Reckless.

[1] According to later claims by Adams, the title is a reference to the sex position, not the year, but Vallance disputes this.

[4] The song was released with two B-side tracks: "Kids Wanna Rock" and "The Best Was Yet to Come", which had previously appeared on the albums Reckless and Cuts Like a Knife respectively.

The music video for the song, which was filmed by Steve Barron, features Adams and his backing band in a variety of settings, including running from the police.

[8] Adams sang "Summer of '69" during the 2011 Cricket World Cup opening ceremony in Bangladesh.

[9] In 2019 Adams performed a duet version of "Summer of '69" with Taylor Swift during her Reputation Tour in Toronto, Canada.

He notes Jackson Browne's "Running on Empty", which contains references to 1965 and 1969, as his own influence, and recalls Adams citing the film Summer of '42 as his.

"[17] Cash Box said of the single that it "recalls the sound and arrangement of Springsteen with Adams' own streamlined sheen.

"[18] Upon the release of the album Reckless in November 1984, "Summer of '69" received some airplay on album-oriented rock radio stations but was mostly overshadowed by the tracks "Run to You" and "It's Only Love", only managing to reach number 40 on Billboard's Top Rock Tracks chart.

[note 1] Like the previous single released from Reckless, "Heaven", "Summer of '69" was a commercial success worldwide.

The single remained on the country's chart for four consecutive weeks from August to September 1985, before falling out of the top 100.

The single's most commercially successful charting territory was the Netherlands, where it peaked at number 4 on September 22, 1990.

[6] In May 2021 the Official Charts Company included it in the list of huge selling summer songs in the UK.