Bryan Adams and Pat Benatar treated fans to waves of hits and more at their joint U.S. tour opener at Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut.

Bryan Adams doesn’t consider his ongoing tour to be a “tour” in the strictest sense of the world. Sure, he’s up on a stage playing hits, and you’re going to hear “Run to You,” that song about the sex ...

Maybe it’s because he did it without a lot of glamour and was refreshingly free of gimmicks. Or it could have been just the Everyman image that he effortlessly cultivated. Whatever the reason, it ...