See here for
essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/08/bryan-adams-possible-mandela.html.
Well, that was quick! The mystery is solved and it didn't take very long; in fact literally within an hour of the background article being posted a comment was left underneath by a reader called "Yellowbentine" suggesting that the song and video existed, but it was by Rod Stewart and not Bryan Adams. The song was released in 1988, roughly the era I remember it, and it is entitled Lost in You. I was dubious at first, but as soon as I saw the video my doubt vanished. The shot at 1.27 to 1.30 is exactly the time-lapse effect I recall, see: https://youtu.be/aEFZ2hHn40w?t=84. So this is a repeat of my previous experiment, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/03/mandela-effect-experiment-update.html. All I did was confuse Rod Stewart with Bryan Adams. This is understandable. Rod is much older thanBryan and is
really part of the previous generation of rock artists, but he has a similar husky
voice. His late 80's style also reminded me of Bryan 's;
and I can hear it clearly in that track. I don't know, but I wouldn't be
surprised if the two had influenced each other. Case closed, this is another
Mandela Effect false alarm.
It is not my intention in this article to disprove the
Mandela Effect, in fact I am certain it is real. I merely wanted to verify if
my false memories were the genuine article or not. Despite that, I bet some
skepper will chide me for even writing this! Hypothetically, if I had been
unable to locate the truth behind my memory; and, this is crucial, I found many other people who also
independently remembered a song by Bryan Adams called Lost in You, it would be a different matter. Interestingly, "Yellowbentine"
has a false memory from the James Bond film Casino
Royale (the 2006 one with Daniel Craig, not the 1967 spoof with Peter
Sellers). He/she says: "Bond checks
into a hotel and poses as a valet in order to create a distraction. Once he has
got the information he needs, Bond tears off the epaulettes on his white shirt,
to look less like he is wearing a uniform, before checking in as a guest. I'd
rewatched this movie several times over the years but upon my last viewing of
this scene, the epaulettes remain intact. I checked two different sources and
it appears that the detail of the scene that I remember just doesn't exist
anymore." I've not seen this film so I must once again ask readers to
help me out. There are other Mandelas in the James Bond series. The best known
is a scene from Moonraker (1979 Roger
Moore). It involves the popular anonymous antagonist known as "Jaws",
so called because he has a very strong cybernetic jaw and metal teeth. His
favourite assassination method is simply to bite people to death. He meets a
young woman and they immediately fall in love. It's a humourous scene and Tchaikovsky's
Romeo and Juliet Overture plays on
the soundtrack. The woman recoils slightly the first time Jaws smiles and she
sees his teeth, but she then recovers and smiles back. Millions of people all
over the world say that when she smiles the viewer immediately sees that she
has dental braces. She does not, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL3RnXY2FYA.
Personally I think it would have been a good idea to give her braces. It would
have added a lot of pathos to the scene giving the two of them an affinity
which would have been very touching. People remember the braces very clearly.
They even recall other viewers in the cinema laughing at the joke. Millions of
people all over the world cannot conflate the same false memory.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/04/ben-emlyn-jones-on-be-reasonable.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-mandela-effect-film-review.html.
Well, that was quick! The mystery is solved and it didn't take very long; in fact literally within an hour of the background article being posted a comment was left underneath by a reader called "Yellowbentine" suggesting that the song and video existed, but it was by Rod Stewart and not Bryan Adams. The song was released in 1988, roughly the era I remember it, and it is entitled Lost in You. I was dubious at first, but as soon as I saw the video my doubt vanished. The shot at 1.27 to 1.30 is exactly the time-lapse effect I recall, see: https://youtu.be/aEFZ2hHn40w?t=84. So this is a repeat of my previous experiment, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/03/mandela-effect-experiment-update.html. All I did was confuse Rod Stewart with Bryan Adams. This is understandable. Rod is much older than
See here for more background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/04/ben-emlyn-jones-on-be-reasonable.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-mandela-effect-film-review.html.