And next month Adams is bringing it all back home with his first full-scale Canadian tour in two decades, a string of 21 shows that will kick off April 11 in St. He’s been touring the world with a show designed to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Waking Up the Neighbours, the album that confirmed him as a superstar. He’s sitting on a massive repertoire of hits, and is not about to let them go stale. No male Canadian singer-songwriter has sold more records than Bryan Adams-some 65 million albums. “It’s like f–king karaoke!” enthuses his veteran manager, Bruce Allen, who’s watching from the edge of the stage-still amazed by the kid who, at 18, vowed he’d be his biggest act ever. You can tell, because Adams often holds back a lyric to let the crowd fill the vacuum. During a two-hour show of wall-to-wall hits, the French fans, singing in perfect English, join in on every number. Now he’s 52, performing the title track at Le Zénith for 6,000 fans. The arena was built in 1983, the same year a 23-year-old Bryan Adams scored his breakthrough with the album Cuts Like a Knife. There’s nothing Old World about Le Zénith, an arena in the shape of a concrete clamshell that sits next to a sculpture of pointless girders in a paved park inspired by a deconstructionist philosopher. We’re in Paris, but you wouldn’t know it. Photo Gallery: Bryan Adams onstage in Paris Le Zénith: Bryan Adams rocks out March 17 in Paris, singing a back-to-back parade of hits