It started out being just another concert for 20-year-old Glenmore Park resident Liesl Bamback but that quickly changed when her idol, Canadian superstar Bryan Adams, called her on stage to perform a duet.
The incredible moment happened at AllPhones Arena last Friday when the ‘Summer of ‘69’ singer told the packed house he needed a female up on stage to help him sing the classic 1998 duet ‘When You’re Gone’.
The crowd went wild with thousands of ladies jumping up and down wanting the opportunity to take part – one of those fans that stood out was Miss Bamback.
“I jumped up and down like an idiot and Bryan saw me in the stands,” Miss Bamback told the Weekender.
“He then saw another girl equally as excited down the front and said to the crowd ‘it’s either the girl down here with the tank top or the girl (Miss Bamback) in the t-shirt up on the side’.
“He first asked the crowd ‘do you want the girl in the tank top?’ and there was a bit of a cheer. Then he said ‘how about the girl in the t-shirt?’ and everybody cheered. He said ‘alright come on down’, so I ran onto the stage.”
It was then a quick dash onto the arena floor and climb up a rickety ladder onto the main stage, but there was only one thing going through her mind.
“I was just thinking don’t forget the words, don’t forget the words,” she said.
Miss Bamback admitted she’d been listening to Bryan Adams’ classic pop rock tunes since she was a baby when her mother, another obsessed fan, used to play them to her and her brother to fall asleep.
“There’s home movies of my brother as a baby falling asleep to the song ‘Heaven’ playing in the background,” she said.
“This experience was an absolute dream come true, it was truly amazing.”
