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Post by Swampy on Jun 22, 2019 10:03:13 GMT 2
From rock candy. Hi Lee, The boss hasn't announced those yet. He does add information to our website in time and if you want us to email you when we release that and the next new releases, join our mailing list. All the best, Jay rockcandyrecords.com/newsletterDear Jay Thanks for this. Please tell your boss,however, that Europe fans the world over have been waiting over 30 years for the legendary original and uncut version of The Final Countdown - the missing minute has been eating away at our hearts and minds seemingly forever! - and we cannot possibly wait a few more weeks. Just ask the boss casually over morning tea about this issue ASAP,and our years of waiting can finally be at an end. Kind regards, Swampy from Australia
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Post by Stein on Jun 22, 2019 11:24:00 GMT 2
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Post by norumfan1987 on Jun 22, 2019 17:43:09 GMT 2
There's also the demo for Cherokee wich we never got to hear
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Post by Swampy on Jun 22, 2019 23:10:48 GMT 2
There's also the demo for Cherokee wich we never got to hear Is there? Cool. There is also the original instrumental that preceded The Final Countdown, locked away in a vault somewhere. Not sure how different it is to the album intro, which we all know.
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Post by norumfan1987 on Jun 23, 2019 4:39:43 GMT 2
There's also the demo for Cherokee wich we never got to hear Is there? Cool. There is also the original instrumental that preceded The Final Countdown, locked away in a vault somewhere. Not sure how different it is to the album intro, which we all know. Not sure if there is, but i'm almost sure it exists, all the demos from that era minus TFC and Cherokee have leaked, even On Broken Wings, the band has mentioned that the first version of TFC was longer many times but that demo isn't available, as the band mentioned (don't remember where) those were the last two songs written for the album, so they're demos were probably recorded some time after the others, wich means the were probably stored somewhere else and weren't leaked, but it would make sense for it to have a demo version, since all the other songs had. As for the instrumental that preceded TFC... i haven't heard anything about that, but who knows.
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Post by Swampy on Jun 23, 2019 9:24:35 GMT 2
As for the instrumental that preceded TFC... i haven't heard anything about that, but who knows. Apparently there was a nightclub in Stockholm that opened its doors at midnight, with TFC's opening synth instrumental, composed by Joey Tempest. One night, when John Leven was there with Joey when the doors were opening, Joey told him that he was the composer of the strange and rather dramatic opening music. Leven was super-impressed and insisted that Joey needed to use this in a proper song somehow. The rest, as they say, is history. That original instrumental is rare indeed, and has not seen the light of day for decades.
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Post by Stein on Jun 23, 2019 12:16:47 GMT 2
That is correct, Swampy. That first TFC demo was just the intro and was written sometime around 1981-82, on a keyboard that Joey had borrowed from Mic Michaeli. The keyboard was a Korg Polysix. Later on, sometime in 1985, Joey made a new demo of the complete song. First he played it for Ian Haugland, who later went on to say, "When I heard the demo, I felt that this was a very special song." When John Norum heard it, his first reaction was, "Do we have to put this song on the album?"
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Post by Swampy on Jun 23, 2019 12:29:04 GMT 2
That is correct, Swampy. That first TFC demo was just the intro and was written sometime around 1981-82, on a keyboard that Joey had borrowed from Mic Michaeli. The keyboard was a Korg Polysix. Later on, sometime in 1985, Joey made a new demo of the complete song. First he played it for Ian Haugland, who later went on to say, "When I heard the demo, I felt that this was a very special song." When John Norum heard it, his first reaction was, "Do we have to put this song on the album?" Such an interesting response from Ian Haugland, thanks Stein. When it was time to discuss whether TFC would be the first single off the album, Mic Michaeli said "No, it won't do, it will never be a hit. Rock the Night is much more us."
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Post by vielip on Jun 24, 2019 20:14:50 GMT 2
Which, in my opinion, was very true! If you look at the first two albums than Rock the night is much more in that vein. Therefore I can completely understand Norum's reaction. If you look at the transformation the band made in roughly 1,5 years between Wings and TFC it's barely imaginable it's the same band.
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Post by Swampy on Jun 25, 2019 0:07:13 GMT 2
Hmmmm....you could argue that, in the sense that early Europe sounded very different to TFC era Europe.
However, the opoosite can also be argued.
When I listen to the first two albums in retrospect, I hear one clue after the next demonstrating that TFC was not an anomaly. It was very much a natural outcome of the band's glam/rock roots, Joey Tempest's imagination, Scandinavian melancholy, and the zeitgeist. Or a combination of all of the above.
This is a very interesting discussion indeed, and I'm happy to be proven wrong.
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