21 January 1994
Can you imagine the amount of corporate conference-calling and your-people-faxing-my-people and he-doesn’t-do-mornings that went into putting together this all-star movie soundtrack juggernaut? The pitch was probably: Bryan Adams had a huge hit with a song from the Robin Hood movie, The Three Musketeers is kinda like Robin Hood set in France, there are three of them, so how about we get two other dour, dreary white male middle-aged rockers to make a threesome? ‘All For Love’ is every bit as appealing as that all sounds, and less.
I suppose we should be grateful it’s merely your typical bland, droning, churning Bryan Adams dad-rock grunt-fest with Rod and Sting only superficially attached to it like two test-tube human ears grafted onto the back of a lab rat, rather than some hideous tripartite monster of Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting stitched together as a human centipede with a bucket at the far end to collect the throughput. You see? You can find something positive in this record if you try.
