Thought I’d Died and Gone to Heaven

Bryan Adams turned the romance up to eleven with 1991’s “Thought I’d Died and Gone to Heaven,” a soaring rock love song off his Waking Up the Neighbours album. The track surrounds Adams’s rugged vocals with echoing drums and a wall of ringing guitars (courtesy of producer Mutt Lange’s glossy style). In the lyrics, Adams compares falling head over heels to a near-spiritual experience — being so in love feels like paradise. The song’s dramatic, sky-high chorus helped it into the US top 15 and found heavy rotation on adult rock radio. While not as iconic as some of his ballads, it remains a favorite for ’90s soft rock enthusiasts — a power ballad with the volume (and emotion) cranked up, capturing that feeling of sublime, head-over-heels love.