Europe interview - Joey Tempest
Jan 22, 2016 9:56:22 GMT 2
Post by jarkam on Jan 22, 2016 9:56:22 GMT 2
Joey for SoCalMusicToday.com before the US tour - January 2016
socalmusictoday.com/interview-joey-tempest-europe/
We recently lost two huge musical icons in Lemmy Kilmister from Motorhead and David Bowie. Did you personally know either of those two or have any words to say?
Well I met Lemmy a couple of times; he was a very friendly guy. He was not afraid of giving compliments to our band or anyone – he was a cool guy. He was a very hard working guy who was leading the way for a lot of musicians, he was a good leader. It was very sad hearing of his passing.
David Bowie’s passing was much more personal for me, it was a heavy day hearing the news, it was all over the news here in the UK (he was from Brixton), I was swelling up with tears as he was such a big influence on me. He inspired the lyrics to “The Final Countdown” as my first single I bought was “Space Oddity” with lyrics about space and I always wanted to write my own song like that. So when I wrote the lyrics to “The Final Countdown”, Bowie was in the back of my mind.
Over the years I had seen him in concert so many times. I remember seeing him in Gothenburg with 60,000 people. We actually just came off tour and I took the tour bus an extra 10 hours just to see that show. I never met him, although I did stand next to him in the airport . . . that’s the closest I got to him. He was just such an inspiration.
socalmusictoday.com/interview-joey-tempest-europe/
We recently lost two huge musical icons in Lemmy Kilmister from Motorhead and David Bowie. Did you personally know either of those two or have any words to say?
Well I met Lemmy a couple of times; he was a very friendly guy. He was not afraid of giving compliments to our band or anyone – he was a cool guy. He was a very hard working guy who was leading the way for a lot of musicians, he was a good leader. It was very sad hearing of his passing.
David Bowie’s passing was much more personal for me, it was a heavy day hearing the news, it was all over the news here in the UK (he was from Brixton), I was swelling up with tears as he was such a big influence on me. He inspired the lyrics to “The Final Countdown” as my first single I bought was “Space Oddity” with lyrics about space and I always wanted to write my own song like that. So when I wrote the lyrics to “The Final Countdown”, Bowie was in the back of my mind.
Over the years I had seen him in concert so many times. I remember seeing him in Gothenburg with 60,000 people. We actually just came off tour and I took the tour bus an extra 10 hours just to see that show. I never met him, although I did stand next to him in the airport . . . that’s the closest I got to him. He was just such an inspiration.
