Bryan Adams fan attends concert with sign saying 'I want your autograph to be my next tattoo' — and she got it

Lori Capozzi has been a Bryan Adams fan for almost 40 years, and has to use both hands to count the number of times she has seen him in concert.

When the iconic rocker played at the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton — about 62 kilometres south of Kelowna in B.C.'s Interior — this past Monday night, Capozzi was in the crowd once again, in the front row for the very first time. From that prime vantage point, she was holding up a sign that said, "Bryan, I want your autograph to be my next tattoo."

Even if it was a longshot, Capozzi was hoping Adams would notice her sign and scrawl his signature on her skin.

About three quarters of the way through the show, it actually happened.

The Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee invited Capozzi onto the stage and wrote his name in thick black felt on the back of her right shoulder. The next day, Capozzi visited local tattoo artist Corey Hounslow and had the signature permanently preserved.

"I think it looks exactly like his signature," Capozzi told Sarah Penton, host of CBC's Radio West.

"If you look at it, [Hounslow] nailed it. He did a really good job. I'm quite happy."

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When Capozzi was making her sign before the concert, she says her husband told her Adams wasn't going to stop the show just to fulfil her request. Capozzi was undaunted, and had reason for optimism as Adams started rolling through his vast collection of hits.

"I could tell throughout the concert that he was looking at the sign," she said. "He looked at it a number of times because, like I said, I was in the front row."

In the second half of the concert, there was a pause in the action and Adams started interacting with the crowd. Capozzi says he was reading everybody's signs, starting from the back of the arena and moving to the front.

That's when he got to hers.

"He started reading it, and I was like, 'Oh my God, this is not gonna happen,'" Capozzi said. "I just about froze. I didn't know how to react. He basically said, 'What do you think, Penticton?' And everybody started cheering, and he said, 'I think I can make this happen.' And then he motioned for me to come up."

Capozzi says she was worried about what she was going to say when she got on stage. But, Adams started the conversation by asking if Capozzi was a tattoo artist.