Bryan Adams rocks the show at BKC

How does Bryan Adams do it? For two and a half hours on Saturday night, he rocked an ecstatic crowd of 20,000 at Bandra-Kurla Complex, pelting them with one hit after another from his massive back catalogue of rock anthems.
Like a well-oiled machine , he and his band powered through hits like 18 till I die, Run to you and Everything I do. Touring 120 days a year for decade now, it’s hard to imagine how many times he’s belted out Summer of ’69.But again he made it sound fresh, like he was having the time of his life.
In the absence of Mel B to accompany him with When you’re gone, he picked out an audience member at random to join him on stage. She sang and danced with him—it felt like we’d stumbled in on someone else’s fantasy.
Adams dedicated Died and gone to heaven to another special fan. He said: “Tonight’s performance is our fifth time in this city. The first night I played here, someone managed to get on stage, grabbed the mic and shouted, ‘Thought I’d died and gone to heaven!’, then jumped into the crowd. I’d like to dedicate the song to this gentleman.”
Then perhaps not with quite the romance of Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Adams asked the crowd to light up Everything I do with mobile phones, Blackberrys and iPhones.
At times stealing the show with his awesome solos was guitarist Keith Scott, with, as Adams shouted, “the fastest fingers you’ve ever seen in your life!”
While other rock stars reinvent themselves again and again, get distracted by exotic models or have misguided dalliances with country music, Bryan Adams remains reassuringly the same. Black shirt, dark jeans, slicked-back quiff that tarts to creep on to his face like a tarantula when his guitar solos get going , you’d be hard pressed to spot the difference between this and his gigs years ago in Mumbai. This classic is forever.