Bryan Adams, like so many musicians that later became famous, had to pay his dues before he got big. According to Britannica, he tooled around in other bands before hitting it big in the 1980s as a solo artist, beginning with the breakout success of his album “Cuts Like a Knife.”

Indeed, the ’80s, as a whole, were good to Adams. During that decade, he achieved his greatest commercial success, putting out a slew of albums that produced smash hits.

But, he could have done more, he later told Classic Pop Magazine. “If I have one regret, it’s that back in the ’80s I should have put out more albums,” he said, noting that he had plenty of songs in the can, but that he was too unsure of himself — “too precious,” as he called it — to release them on albums. “I was going, ‘Not good enough… Not good enough’ when I should have put everything out,” he said.

Fortunately for Bryan, at least seven of those songs made it onto the 30th anniversary re-release edition of his album “Reckless.” Looking back on them, he says, they would have been perfect for radio play at the time he originally wrote them.