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Roll with the Punches (Bryan Adams album)

2025 studio album by Bryan Adams

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ135618131
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Roll with the Punches is the sixteenth studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams, released on 29 August 2025, on Adams' own Bad Records record label.

Composition and lyrics

The album's title track has been described as a "hefty rock stomper", is about resilience and "the spirit of getting back up no matter how hard you've been knocked down" according to Bryan Adams himself.

Release and promotion

The album's title track was released as the lead single from the album on 7 February 2025, accompanied with a music video. "Make Up Your Mind" was released as the album's second single on 6 March 2025. The third single, "Never Ever Let You Go" was released on 7 May 2025. "A Little More Understanding" was released on 16 July 2025. A tour to promote the album was announced on 23 April 2025, which will reportedly be his biggest tour in years. A special edition was also released that contained a second disc with acoustic recordings, and a boxed set.

In fall of 2025, Adams launched the "Roll with the Punches" tour with performances scheduled at venues throughout North America. The tour continued into 2026.

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Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2025-08-29. For this dossier, Roll, Punches and Bryan is the immediate research focus.
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