Oh – once in your life you find someone
Who will turn your world around
Bring you up when you’re feeling down

“Heaven” is a song that’s found success both as a power ballad ”” the original version, released as a single in 1985, was Bryan Adams’s first number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 ”” and as an upbeat dance number ”” DJ Sammy’s cover version reached number one on the U.K. Singles Chart in 2002. But the version I’m most fond of is to be found on Adams’s 1997 Unplugged disc. And there are a couple of reasons for this, one purely musical, and the other purely sentimental.
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