Bryan Adams will always value his friendship with the late Princess Diana.
Bryan Adams wanted to "save" Princess Diana.
The 'Summer of '69' hitmaker befriended the princess when she was married to now-King Charles and they grew closer in her later years, and the 64-year-old star admitted their bond was one of the "greatest things" to ever happen to him.
Asked if he tried to "save" Diana, Bryan - who previously denied speculation he'd had an affair with the princess - told the Sunday Times magazine: “Uh-oh... Maybe, a bit.
"We had a lot of really, really good conversations, I have to tell you. In fact it’s strange and surreal to think about.
"I really, really liked Diana, she was an amazing woman and a super-great inspiration.
"Meeting her was truly one of the greatest things that ever happened to me.”
The 'Heaven' hitmaker first met the late princess on a plane, where they struck up conversation about his 1984 b-side 'Diana', which features the lyrics: “The day that he married you, I nearly lost my mind/ Whatcha doing with a guy like him?”
Diana was aware of the song and after he sent her a copy, she invited him for tea, which sowed the seeds of their long friendship.
He said: “She was sitting and I was standing.
“I said, ‘I used your name on a song once,’ and Diana said, ‘Yes, I know, very funny. Actually I’d like to hear it again.’
"So I sent a copy to Kensington Palace, got an invitation to tea back and that’s how we became friends. When I first went round to KP [Kensington Palace] she wasn’t, like, ‘I really need to talk to somebody,’ and you don’t bulldoze into someone’s life wanting to know everything in the first ten minutes. It was, ‘Let’s have a cup of tea.’ But later the more friendly we got the more I learnt what was really going on ”
Following Diana's death, Bryan "retired" the song.
He said: “The lyrics to Diana were just laddish humour. And actually the song was inspired by that guy who broken into the Queen’s bedroom and sat on her bed smoking a fag.
“Anyway, I retired it after Diana died out of respect to her and her boys.”
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