Produced by Bob Clearmountain and Bryan Adams. Associate producer Jim Vallance. Recorded by Bob Clearmountain, September 1986, at Cliffhanger Studios, West Vancouver. Mixed by Bob Clearmountain, January 1987, at AIR Studios, London.

"Home Again" is one of the songs from our "lost" period of songwriting, by which I mean we'd completely lost our way and hadn't a clue what we were writing about, or why. This was not the kind of song Bryan's fans were hoping he'd deliver as a follow-up to Reckless. The lyric was forced.  We were trying a little too hard. In my opinion, it just didn't work.

Adams and I wrote most of "Home Again" in March 1986, at Zomba Studios in north London (we finished the song in Vancouver a few months later). We'd gone to London so Bryan could spend time with his English girlfriend, Vicki Russell.  I love London, so it didn't take much convincing when Bryan suggested we spend a month there, despite the fact it was one of the coldest English winters on record!

I rented an apartment just off Kensington High Street.  Bryan stayed with Vicki. We met every morning at Zomba and spent 10 or 12 hours each day working on songs for the "Into The Fire" album.

Creatively it was a struggle. We put in the hours, but we weren't getting results. The best song written at Zomba was "Victim Of Love", but nearly everything else was discarded.

Aside from spending time with Vicki, there's another reason Bryan chose Zomba Studios. One of Zomba's recording rooms was permanently occupied by producer Mutt Lange, who Bryan had been courting for a year or more.

Bryan was unable to convince Mutt to participate on "Into The Fire", but he did manage to secure Mutt's services for the next album, "Wakin' Up The Neighbours".