“I remember the phone call. He said, ‘Jim, I just wrote this thing. It was for Blue Öyster Cult. But I don’t think they’re going to keep it…’” The Bryan Adams track that started life as a Blue Öyster Cult song

Keith Scott has reflected on his enduring career as the foil to “prolific songwriter” Bryan Adams, and how one of their most beloved hits wasn’t originally meant for them.

It wasn’t simply a case of Adams, Scott, and co. sweeping up sloppy seconds, though, as the guitarist tells Vertex Effects that he begged the British/Canadian singer-songwriter, “please don’t give that away!”